Swimming Term 1

In Term 1, we have swimming lessons on Tuesday every week.. For Year 7's and 8's, there is swimming extensions. Meaning if your considerably well at swimming, you can skip lessons and water safety, and choose from kayaking, snorkelling and diving lessons. I chose to be in kayaking. I wanted to be in kayaking because I thought it would be fun, but my Dad said to just do diving, so it would help me in swimming sports competitions, but I already chose kayaking. It was worth it, since we might do kayaking when I go to camp (OPC). The first few lessons we practiced a safety routine when we capsized in our kayak and how to enter the pool with your life jacket. The instructors said to tuck your knees under the knee guards for balance, then delicately slide out, leaning forward, and tap three times on the kayak so the instructors know your safe. But if you can't get out, you continue tapping. After this we went on the bubble machine. At first I was baffled at what they said. I then understood that it was an exercise, so you could feel what river rapids were like. We were told to huddle up together, there were approximately about ten of us. Next they activated the machine. It was reasonably strong since I was sent back to the corners of the vast five metre pool. I looked around to see that we were scattered across the pool, with our life jackets. I was amused at how strong it was. We were then asked to rate the aggressiveness of the burst of water out of ten. The average score they rated was five, some eight. They told us it was not even over half of one! Everyone was amazed. After we could catch up to the people who had lessons and now was in free time. We had about five minutes until we actually changed. I spent a few minutes there, people telling about what they did, and how fun it was. That was my typical swimming day. But for a few weeks it was cancelled due to a swimming meet apparently. And plus OPC Camp. But swimming enjoyable as the past seven years.