My Swimming Experience

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It was a warm and sunny day. Then, all of a sudden, CRASH! I had fallen into a ring of rocks around the pool. The next thing I know, my older sister is panicking and rushing me inside the house.
I was six years old and in the first grade at Eisenhower Elementary. It was March and the weekend had finally come. My sister and I could not wait to go swimming in our backyard. So, on an early Saturday morning, my older sister, Titania, had allowed us to swimming.
The weather was perfect and I was so excited. We had not been allowed to go for a while because it was always too cold when we wanted to go, and when the weather was finally nice, the pool had to be cleaned. So you can understand our excitement. Anyway, my little sister and I had eagerly put on our bathing suits, grabbed our towels, and ran outside.
After briefly fighting over who would get to jump in first, I climbed up the ladder to the pool. Worried the water was
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My cousin had brought with her a Nintendo DS, a small game console. I remember she never let anyone play on it. Anyway, while I was playing a game, I was still losing blood. Since the medicine was not making me sleepy, the doctor decided to put the stitches in my arm while I was …show more content…
I was laying on a bed, on my side, with my arm over my head. Another thing I recollect is talking to my mom throughout the whole procedure about random things. I kept talking because the medicine was finally starting to kick in and I wanted to stay awake the whole time. When the doctor was done, I ended up having thirteen stitches in my arm. After finally arriving back home, my family and I went to the backyard to investigate how I was wounded. We figured out the as I fell, my arm was cut by a loose railing that was really

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