This time I was right in front of the building, nerves almost humming. So a week later, Mom and I pulled up in front of the building I had seen a million times as we had driven past it on the way in and out of town. I asked my parents, and since it was offered by the church as an outing, they said sure. I knew that swimming was a mandatory course, and I didn't want to have to learn in front of the other students. I could have waited for high school to start, but I thought it would be good for me to check out the school before I went there in the fall as a freshman. ![]() Besides, it was so far outside town you needed to know someone with a car to get there. I would liked to have gone swimming at the old quarry outside town, but the older kids sort of owned it, and any of us younger kids caught anywhere near it were hassled badly. There were no big creeks or rivers where I lived - the whole town was a high school and a golf course, that's about it. I got a chance to take a swimming course at the high school that was offered by the church. ![]() It was summer vacation, just before high school. Jeremy's Swimming Lessons by Smokr Chapter 1
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