Learning to Swim-Day 43

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On this humid summer afternoon, it was a pleasant day to walk to the gym to have a swim lesson with Paige. Originally, I thought a week from Thursday would be my last one. But Paige had informed me that July 17th, two weeks from this Thursday (when she's on vacation to visit her brother in Georgia), would be my last one. So now I'm really down to my final three swim lessons after today. She also informed me she had a perfect match for me as in my final swim instructor. I don't know his name. But he's a 18 year old college student who's in Egypt right now. I won't start until August, so I have some time to have a break between now and then. Back in the lap pool, I warmed up with two laps of the breast stroke. Then with two hoops, I practiced more underwater swimming to kick off a lap for any stroke. Paige demonstrated a few times, and I did it in the shallow end of the pool. Then I practiced the butterfly and followed it with the butterfly kick. I did it a couple of times. Then she showed me how to do the dolphin swim poses in the shallow end. I did it a few times by keeping my hands and feet close together. I didn't learn how to do the side crawl yet as I hope to do it before I say aloha to Paige in two weeks. Lastly, Paige demonstrated how to do a proper turn at the pool (just like Rachel showed me last fall) for the backstroke. After I practiced it, I did 4 laps of the backstroke with the turn. To finish the lesson, I did two laps of the freestyle too. I hope to return to doing practice laps before I say goodbye to Paige, depending on how my back is feeling. And I hope to do it before I start my final round of swim lessons in late July/early August. I'll let you know when.