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Personal Narrative: My First Swim Team

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One day I came home from kindergarden in the spring with a flyer, chatting with my mom in a squeaky, childish voice I said “Mom! Mom! Look at this! Can I join this swim team this summer?”
She sighed and thought of when I was younger and could not swim. My mom had to hold me up out of the water.
I pointed to a spot in the flyer, “It says here that you do not have to know how to swim. The coaches there teach you before you join the actual swim team.” She pondered, wondering if I should participate in another activity.
I wanted her to agree with me so I said, “Mrs. Wayland is signing Taylor up, you do not want my best friend to swim all by herself, do you?” Taylor and I have been close ever since she asked me to play tag with her on the playground in kindergarten. Even though she moved to Maryland back in the fourth grade, her mom and my mom still stay connected and we visit each other on holidays. …show more content…

Swimming was easy at first. I had my towel, suit, and goggles and was ready to go. When you are a young swimmer you easily drop time because you change a single element of your stroke and you drop ten seconds off of your original time. As you get older you go to more competitive meets, need high-tech and more expensive suits, and have more experience acquired over the years. Most importantly: it becomes harder to drop

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