Swimming

Swimming in a pool is usually relaxing and an enjoyment, but it may also be a torture when there is no enough space in the pool and people around start kicking and punching each other accidentally. In order to go to the beach trips or do anything involving water, I had to experience this nightmare, the swimming test at summer school. After waiting in the huge line for a long time, it was finally my term. I thought the swimming test was a piece of cake as it was only one lap and swimming is the only sports I was good at. I was so confident about how fast and easily I was going to finish this one lap until I started swimming. Somebody kicked me at my head as I just swam for one step, but that was just the beginning.  Since nobody was wearing goggles, everyone kept swimming into others and punching at others’ face blindly and unintentionally. People around me kept running into and kicking me as I kept swallowing the chlorinated water. At the same time, I was kicking and running into others as well. It seemed more like a parking lot than a swimming pool, and there was traffic everywhere. Luckily I didn’t swallow all the water in the pool after the rough one lap. I dragged my tired body out of the chlorinated water and tapped the people who were still in line on their shoulders with a painful smile on my face.