Swim Lessons for Sarita basically involve playing in the pool for 30 minutes. She already knows how to swim and quite well. A big difference from her first summer here where she loved going in the water but was scared to death at the same time. I think I spent two months with her attached to me at various body points that first summer.

Then she started swim lessons. Levels 1-3 the first year. Level 4-5 the next. Then she took level 5 again this year. Level 5 is the level where we all know the kids know how to swim but they want an excuse to swim every day for two weeks. So they teach them different swim competition strokes - breast, overhead crawl, butterfly, etc etc. Also, they teach them how to dive. I will say that Sarita definitely got the dive down and she could put half a pool length between herself and the other memebers of her class with the crawl. But she was beating herself up because she just could not figure out the butterfly. But voila! her instructor told her she knows it she just needs to practice. Now what kind of stupid thing is that to tell a kid? I mean now she wants to go to the pool every day. No, not to have fun but because she needs to practice. Yeah right.