When I was four years of age I attended a swimming club at Seven Islands in Southwark.

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When I was four years of age I attended a swimming club at Seven Islands in Southwark. The pool was fairly large and was rarely crowded, that was one comfort for me. Seven Islands had many activities other than swimming, I myself did not choose to do swimming my mum had decided that I would benefit from it.

My first day at the club started in a shallow pool opposite a larger one. I already knew two people who came with me, that made me feel a little confident despite the crying of other children. We had two instructors a man and a women both were roughly in their thirties the man had brown hair and was quite tall, the women had blonde hair and was full figured and short. The children were either taller than me or shorter than me so I am not sure if they were the same age as me never the less I got acquainted with them all. The first exercises that we did consisted of getting our muscles ready to get into the water. After the exercises were finished we were allowed to jump in, the exercises were necessary to prevent us from getting a cramp in our leg or spraining our ankles. The instructors told us to practice kicking our legs whilst holding on to the ledge, this was very important if we wanted to swim properly. The instructors then handed out floats so we could further develop kicking our legs however most of the children used the floats to splash water at one another, because of this the women instructress decided to take one of the girls to a deeper part of the pool to do a different exercise because she was behaving sensibly with the floats unlike the rest of us, but when I saw this I became competitive. I tried to progress by listening to the instructor and not paying any attention to the other children until I eventually went with the instructress.
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The day I learned to swim was a normal day, one month after I started. After school my mum brought me home to get my swimming gear ready for swimming, when I arrived at Seven Islands I was told that one of the instructors had gone on holiday, in his place was a new women who was tall and had brown hair and was from Australia. The new lady was nice and spoke softly. She and the other women decided to see if we could swim without assistance, she started with me first she held both of my ...

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