Extra Credit Blog

     So I'm just now getting around to writing my last blog, and school has already started! School isn't too bad this year, but I think I definitely still liked summer better! I didn't do much this summer, besides swim, so i decided to write my blog about the swim camp I went to at Indiana University. It was really challenging , but I still had a lot of fun!
     At camp we had to stay in a dorm room with a roommate. Lucky for me, another girl from my swim team went with me. Our day started at 5:30, when we got up and ate breakfast. We left the dorm room at 5:45, and walked a quarter of a mile or so to the pool. Morning practice was really hard, and only swimmers considered elite could sign up. We had to do the same practice as the college swimmers that swam at the pool! They even had these really cool pulleys that you attached weights to then tied to your waist to pull the weight up while you swim across the pool. Some of the college swimmers could pull up to ninety or a hundred pounds, but the most I ever pulled was35 or 40. After that we went to a meeting room inside the natatorium and the coaches presented a powerpoint on some drills and techniques we could work on to get faster, then we did another practice. After that our day was half over, and we walked to the cafeteria for lunch.
     After lunch we walked back to our dorms for 45 minutes of downtime. We were all so tired by tired by that time that we could barely walk up the stairs! After that we had one more practice, and we are finally done for the day. We were only there for a week and when we got back, we were exhausted! On the bright side, I learned a lot and made a lot of new friends. I met some people who came from up north in places like Chicago, and they thought I had a Southern accent! I thought that was really funny because I didn't think I had one at all, if anything they had Northern accent! I even met a girl there who spoke fluent polish ,german , and English! I was really impressed! I'm really glad I had the opportunity to go and I think it was a great experience to get to swim in Indiana's pool, because its super nice! I also really liked that I got to meet so many new people! So overall, I think I had a pretty cool summer!



   ~Savannah K:)