Narrative Essay About Swimming

The large diving board terrifies some while brings such joy to others. A girl once hit her head on the board. Her friends and the lifeguard had rushed into save her. She was fine in the end physically, but she never tried to do a backflip again. Kids constantly run around chasing old memories and making new ones.

For example, The author provides a look into the physical training as well as the psychological training for the two swimmers as they try and make the olympic swim team (Mullen 1). The author does a wonderful job describing everything that happens during the training of a swimmer like the review said. For example, "Mullen skillfully details exactly what the swimmers are feeling and think and Sports fans and anyone who has trained for competition will find this book enjoyable" (“GOLD” 1). The author perfectly describes what is going on in the swimmer's head while they are in their ruthless training for the Olympics. For example, The book features two boys, one trying to trace his father's path to Olympic glory and one trying to walk away from everything.

Her mind became occupied, but was snapped out of it by a startling realization: she and Ian were being pulled out to sea. The narrator immediately put her body to work, swimming as hard as she could and telling Ian to do the

It made me tired, swimming in the trough, and I turned and swam out to the raft... After a while I stood up, gripped with my toes on the edge of the raft as it tipped with my weight, and dove cleanly and deeply, to come up through the lightening water, blew the salt water out of my head, and swam slowly and steadily into shore. (Hemingway

It felt as though I was running through a montage of my life like in all the romantic movies. It felt as though everything was passing by in a blur yet ever so vivid. Like time had stopped yet moving so fast. The words I spoke felt unreal and the steps I took felt non-existent. I looked ahead of me and all I could see was white sand and the beautiful ocean rubbing up against it.

That experience taught me a valuable lesson about being realistic and figuring out what would be the best decision for my life. However it didn’t end there. As you know I never give up and even when I’m told to stop or I’m not good enough I still keep going. My coach texted me about a week later and told me he made a mistake and he would want me to be on jv. That season for jv I started out from being cut, then being the very last guy on the bench, to then working my way up to be a starter for some games and getting lots of playing time.

Jerry has matured greatly during the course of the story. he wanted to impress the other boys by swimming through the tunnel they all swam through. So he told his mother that he needed swimming goggles. So she took him to the store and he grabbed the goggles and ran back to the swimming spot to attempt the long swim through the tunnel. He practiced every day learning independince from his mothter.

People around me were playing games with a ball. Others were just drowning each other. When the sun was starting to come down I got off and went back. They started cooking some more food for us. First I went to go change back to my clothes.

And I let the fish go” (lines 74-75). In this moment the fisher experiences a sense of realization and victory in her mind, an epiphany. Each of the colors represents the pieces that comprise the decision of letting the fish go. The colors serve as the stepping stones for the fisher to realize the heroic character of the fish. The rainbow represents the vast amounts of respect that that fisherman has for the warrior fish.

On this week’s Latin weekly test, I finally received a grade I can be proud of. There were days that I almost broke into tears studying Latin or doing homework question with Latin tutor or the professor. It’s something, a sign of improvement. But for me, every time something good happens, unluckiness knocks at my door.

Hurricane Harbor has something in everybody’s category of fun. Hurricane Harbor offers a water house for kids, offering three floors of fun, wet adventures. A huge tidal wave pool to give you the true sense of the Ocean and its hard and powerful waves; a lazy river, which floats you around on a tube with a pretty rock filled scenic tour. The slow, relaxing flow of the water is sure to relax the parents while the kids are splashing away. Multiple rides, packing water and high speeds on rafts with other guests are sure to throw a little excitement in for the action seekers.

I kept on as far as I could. Once I reached the surface, I noticed that Liann was close to me and started kicking and stroking faster. I reached out for each of my strokes and there was a pile of white foam behind me indicating that I was kicking hard. The wall came into my view and with all my final strength, I touched the wall on my side. Immediately, I looked up at the scoreboard and smiled to myself.

I’ve always been afraid of failing and always wanted to strive for greatness, but life has it’s up’s and down’s. For the first time in my life I was a

After a few years, soccer became my worst enemy. It beat me down and stressed me out and I was done putting up with bullies. Before I confronted my demon I had to first face my mother; my biggest fan, my number one supporter since day one. This would be no easy

As of right now, I could get into the pool without any anxiety, and I am able to float on a water comfortably. Not only I managed bobbing, but also I learned how to slowly exhale mouth and nose—to the point where I could seat at the bottom of the pool. I also tried different positions inside the water to experience side and back buoyancy. One of the most exciting progress I made is, I now know how