I only know how to swim well enough, to save my life in an emergency.
I can still remember how many times I almost drowned in the process of learning how to swim.
I Furthermore, I admit admit, I learned how to swim quite late.
It was in college, as swimming was an essential physical education subject.
I had to get a passing score that semester as it was.
My only remaining p e subject.
I remember that I was the only Junior in the whole class later.
I was told that it was a block section for freshman marine biology students as part of their open water diving license.
Of course, I was the only one in the class who did not know how to swim swim, poor me on the first day.
I could not even float.
I had to feign an injury so , so I could be excused for the following weeks weeks, as I was too terrified and embarrassed to come back to class.
Unfortunately.
My professor said said, a deadline to check, if we had learned the different swimming strokes.
I was doomed doomed, but I did not give up.
I recruited my best friend and my boyfriend at the time to teach me.
They were both diverse.
So So, I thought they could teach me, well, big mistake in our first session.
They pushed me off the deep end of the pool pool, Instinct said in.
And I clumsily paddled my way to safety.
They cheered me on and said, you're a natural natural, right? For the next four weeks.
I cried so much and drank a lot of pool water while I practiced practiced, as I barely learned how to swim freestyle and breaststroke.
I cannot cannot, for the life of me, do the butterfly stroke.
My friends laughingly said it looked more like the caterpillar stroke, whatever that was.
I was relieved.
That at least I know the basics of swimming.
I barely passed the test off.
I think most of my points were, because because the teacher saw my effort and also, because because he pitied me.
Now, when we have a family outing at the beach or pool, I still don't enjoy swimming, but if some wage Crazy accidentally pushes me into the water.
I can confidently swim to save my life.