Day #1 Lesson

She's going to make me go in the deep end !

Bathing suit - check.  Towel - check.  Toiletries - check.  My first day of lessons found me timidly entering the pool area wearing the bathing suit which hadn't seen daylight in two years.  Carol was already in the pool wearing a wet suit (which looked very official) and greeted me with a smile inviting me to enter the pool.  While she talked my eyes wandered to the dark blue line at the bottom of the pool and immediately I noticed it dropped from 3 ft to 6 ft !  The facility was a scuba diving school.  She wanted to see what I could do and I demonstrated being able to put my face in the water and float on my stomach.  She said I had great buoyancy which will help in the process.

It wasn't until a couple of lessons later that she said the look on my face that first day was "Oh boy, she's going to make me go into the deep end !"   She was right !  My stomach had butterflies and I was trying so hard to be calm but inside I was screaming "fear fear fear trauma drama".