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Swim Lessons

The past two weeks the team has been giving individualized swim lessons to various children in the community.  It’s cool to see those who return every year gain more experience.  Over the past two years we’ve done lessons four times so improvement is really noticeable.  We mostly just have a good time and want to get kids comfortable in the water, especially the much younger ones.  I was giving lessons to two four-year-olds.  It was a blast since they were both pretty outgoing.  My first half-hour lesson consisted mostly of Kali kicking all over the pool on her kickboard.  She wasn’t shy about letting me know how much she disliked getting water in her eyes.  My second half-hour lesson would always end with Dirk going off the three meter board.  I doubt he’s much more than a couple feet tall, but he was all for it.  I think diving for rings was his favorite thing to do though. 

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