Category : Books-Fiction

Sub Category : Historical Fiction

My Big Life Change- (chapter 1) 

I was at school one day and I heard the morning announcement at school and what inspired me is to try swimming so I decided to try it. When i came home from school i told my parents that i want to try swimming and my parents said "sure!" The next day i went swimming tryouts for my high school swim team. And we had to do a flip turn and i was afraid of trying it, but the next day i decided to not give up on it then after a couple days i was able to do it! At my next swim practice, i got to learn how to dive off the blocks. My dives weren't perfect at first but after about a year my dives got a lot better. At my first swim meet, i wasn't the best but i tried my best! By the end of the season, i competed at conferences in my first year of swim season of competitive swimming. And i swam the 100-meter backstroke and i bested my personal best time!


The Next Generation- (chapter 2 )

I joined a summer swim team and over the summer i got to learn the ways of swimming the butterfly stroke! Throughout the season i kept on getting better then eventually i got to compete in the 100-meter butterfly stroke in swim meets. By the end of the season, i became butterflyer and kept on practicing the butterfly stroke throughout the past 2 years in the summer. After practice, i went to a beach called Middlesex beach where i joined there junior lifeguard beach program and i learned so much from it! In my first year of junior guards, i learned how to save people and learned some CPR. After a couple days i had my junior guards competition and i did great in it! By when summer ended it was the beginning of my 2nd year of competitive swimming and one day at swim practice my swim team, the coach wants me to swim the 500-meter freestyle in my swim meet! I was nervous at first but after i did it i felt very proud of myself, after doing it i succeed my goal as a long distance swimmer!