#I swam the length of the pool multiple times without ANY flotation device or holding on to anyone or anything | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

angeltannis · 2 years ago

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About a month ago something happened with my swim instructor that apparently involved a very close call with a child in the pool, and she was never right after that. Nervous and jumpy and kept obsessively looking around at all the other swimmers. Two lessons ago, right after mine ended, she had a massive panic attack and had to be pulled out of the pool by the lifeguard. Last week she didn’t show up and I just had to go back home.

Now yesterday someone else from the org sent me an email saying my instructor is on indefinite leave and that tomorrow I’ll be starting with another new instructor (my third one in 6 1/2 months) . I’m really sad because I liked my second instructor a lot, and I’m worried for her. I think she was really traumatized. And nobody there really seemed to be taking it seriously (they were still loading her up with classes and kids). Typical American workplace to be honest

#swimming tag #I don’t know how to feel tbh. a lot of the girls I’ve interacted with there are really mean and callous #(the men aren’t any better but the email said it’s one of the women who’ll be taking over my lessons)#I actually did REALLY well at what was apparently our final lesson #I swam the length of the pool multiple times without ANY flotation device or holding on to anyone or anything #that wouldn’t have happened if my current instructor hadn’t been so patient and gentle with me #at first I thought we weren’t gonna work well together bc she was kind of skittish and Fluttershy-like lol-#-and kept being like ‘omg no don’t cry we can stop we can stop’ any time after she’d try to push me a little #but I eventually told her to just keep pushing me mo matter how much I cried lol #and it worked!#so…yeah #gonna be hard to start over…AGAIN :/

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