swimming in the time of temescal

reading diem's blog about swimming makes me want to write about it. and the title of my post. i dont know, but i think its ingenious. ok...maybe its a little weird.

my experience with temescal pool has been a memorable one. in the beginning of freahman year, i never even thought about swimming till anh and diem dragged me to practice. this lady who promised to show up every friday to teach us how to swim never showed up. Bover-macho was an integral factor to me learning how to swim. Because he had the guts to push me into the 13 ft deep side of the pool, i became comfortable with the water. how dare he though! i had no idea how to tread back then, he must have been high.
And then, there's Coach Perry. That punk. he left us right before our senior year. He couldnt even stayed for that one last year. Nevertheless, he has left many good memories with the team. We love to tease him about his loud voice and constant bragging; not to mention his horid vietnamese accent. We used to say that, when you swim, you can count on hearing Perry yell through his blow horn if not anything else. I miss that. And how he used to threaten to step on our fingers if we ever held on to the wall. I miss how diem and i used to cheat on our laps. how perry used to make us sprint. i loved the kick boards. Perry made me feel good about myself. he would give everyone in the pool a 10 second head start and grant me the honor of creaming everyone. i dont think i can do that any more since ive been out of the pool for so long. I miss swim meets and swimming competatively. the adrenaline rush and how nervous we used to be waiting for our event. and all the memories of training in all types of weather: rain, hail, thunder. i really miss it. i remember everyone running out of the pool after the sound of thunder this once. it was quite funny. it all paid off bc we won the OALs my junior year and was appointed varsity girls team captain alongside Zora. but Perry left and ruined us. at least i thought so. Punk.

but what ever. I LOVED THE OT SWIM TEAM! and i want to get back into the pool!

but anyway. ive been REALLY bored lately, so since i was actually home instead of my grandmothers today, i took the time too look for things i need to bring to davis. turns out i have extras of everything now. didnt need to spend the money. i went down to my basement to look for my luggage and i ran into this bike. why didnt anyone tell me i had a bike down there? so i lugged it out of my basement. my very very crowed basement. with my muscles. yeh? lol and i tried to get on. i cant believe it. i forgot how to get on a bike. it look me a very long while to figure it out and when i got on i didnt get to far before i ran into the branches of my apple tree. miraculously, i didnt get hurt and managed to fall off in a fashionable manner while my neighbors watched on....how embarrassing! i didnt get much done today. what a bummer.