Obesity

ESSAY IS NEVER TO LATE TO LEARN SOMETHING. Learning something new can be a scary experience. One of the hardest things I’ve
Ever had to do was learn how to swim. I was alwaysafraid of the water, but I decided that
Swimming was an important skill that I should learn. I also thought it would be good exercise
And help me become physically stronger. What I didn’t realizewas that learning to swim would
also make me a more confident person. New situations always make me a bit nervous, and my first swimming lesson was no
exception After I changedinto my bathing suit in the locker room, I stood timidly by the side
of the pool waiting for the teacher and other students to show up. After a couple of minutes the
teacher came over. She smiledand introduced herself, and two more students joined us.
Although they were both older than me, they didn’t seem to be embarrassed about not knowing
How to swim. I began to feel more at ease.We got into the pool, and the teacher said ‘’put on these brightly colored water wings to
help you stay afloat.’’ One of the other students may had alreadytaken the beginning class once before, so she
took a kickboard and went ‘’splashing’’ off by herself. The other students, Louis and I were told
hold on to the side of the pool and was shown how tokick for the breaststroke one by one. The
teacher had us hold on kickboard while they pulled it through the water and we kicked. Pretty
soon Louis was off doing this by himself, traveling at a fastspeed across the short end of the
pool. Things were no quite that easy for me, but the teacher was very patient. After a few more
weeks when I seemed to have caught onwhit my legs, she tough me the arm strokes. Now I had
two things to concentrate on my arms and my legs, I felt hopelessly uncoordinated. Sooner than
i imagined, however, things began to feel...