Pool

It was a cold, spring morning as my alarm began blasting in my ears. But today I didn't care. I was excited to get up at 5:30 a.m. For my brother-in-law and I where going fising at the local pay pond and best of all the pay pond was having a fishing tournament. One-hundred dollars for the biggest fish caught. I gathered all my supplies and we where on our way. The ride was a quite thirty minute route. We arrived around 6:30 a.m. It was a little crowded to my surprise but after unloading our gear…

The date for my sister’s engagement party was fast approaching. It was two years before her wedding, and she also has acne prone skin. She decided to look up a dermatologist and found one that she thought would suit her needs. After seeing the regimen done on my sister, and how her skin reacted. I had changed my dermatologists to the same one as my sister. We were given PCA products, which would dry out our skin because we both have very oily skin. My sister’s results were far greater than mine.…

The sun rises, and the pool lights go on. As the lights warm up, home players begin to set up the pool and get it ready for the day. The players walk with energy and talk with joking banter and friendly arguments. As the pool begins to look like a course, they start their warm up and move with high energy and excitement in their voice. By the end of the day these boys will be tired and broken because of the sport known as water polo. The first of many busses arrives, and the boys pile off. They…

as he swims through various pools in order to get home from his friends house who lives just eight miles away. Neddy Merrill experiences increasingly strange occurrences with his neighbors at each pool he swims through and realizes many of life's problems. Cheever beings his story with Neddy Merrill's innocent idea that he can swim his way home from a Sunday afternoon cocktail at the Westerhazy's where his drinking lifestyle is accepted by those around him. The pools themselves represent the…

I was halfway done with my 300 yard swim to pass the prerequisite to be a lifeguard. I finished The nervousness was effecting my stomach. I stumbled out of the pool and over to trash can. Where I lost my last meal to that can. I noticed that my vomit was red but i didn’t have time to think about it I had another test to complete before I could go home. That is to tread water for 2 minutes not using arms. I start my head is bobbing in and out of water. My mouth opens and I start choking and I am…

paragraph 5-10 sentences that summarizes or paraphrases what the article is about. It is safe to say that everyone has peed in the pool at least once in their life. However, very few people know how harmful peeing in the pool can be. Not only is swimming in pee gross, but it can turn into a long term health hazard. Most people tend to think that adding more chlorine to the pool will kill off all bacteria but what they don’t know is that when chlorine reacts with urine it forms hosts of toxic…

least 3-5 minutes Practice (breathing in water) bobbing Pre-requisite This level is designed for children from 0 to 6 years old and who have little or no experience before. Parents children age 3 and below must be accompanied by their parents in the pool. Activity Description Little Fish—is a swim program for children 0-6 years of age, it’s the first level of “swim series for beginners” program that is comprised of 5 levels. In this level the children will learn the most fundamental swim…

level of animosity with which I skated glaring difference a conspicuous difference to the conventional style of the time which was still based around traps figured in the 1960s. Me and the other Z-Boys were among the first to bring skating vacant pools into the standard. In these early days, it was noticed that I hit the lip so hard that i got air, consequently I'm frequently credited for the initially recorded aerials, a frontside air, in spite of the fact that I asserted that George Orton was…

Loops of pool noodles swirling around electrical wires in a swimming pool. Anxiety has been surrounding me for as long as I can remember. When I'm having a panic attack, 100 Kilowatts (that's 83334 potato batteries) are all firing through the water as the noodles pulse and burst under the stress, an array of neon foams shaking in unhappy waters. When I am having one of these panic attacks, there is only so much I can process of my outside world; I am stripped of the capacity to take in what's…

Each day had its own new challenges it liked to throw at me. From irresponsible adults who try to drop their kids off at the pool and leave to kids who couldn’t swim and jump into the deep end, to even families who lacked at least one family member could speak English. My pool was a single guard pool with approximately two guards. Two guards to switch on and off all summer. With that being said, my biggest challenge there was giving up my entire summer for this…