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I have my first swim meet next week. I can't decide whether to be completely freaked out or ecstatic! 0_o I think I'll go with ecstatic. I love swim team, I love my coach. I have a whole bunch of friends on the swim team with me now... so, yeah. Right now I'm just swimming the 50 free and the 100 free because I'm new to the team. For those of you who don't know - the length of our pool is 25 yards. One lap (to the other side of the pool and back) is called a 50, so two laps is a 100. The "free" part just means freestyle. For those of you who don't know what freestyle is (God help you people), it's the front stroke. They teach the little kids that the bottom of the pool is made of ice cream and they have to use big ice cream scoops. You don't eat ice cream with a fork (fingers spread), or with a knife (fingers together but the hand flat), you eat it with a spoon (fingers closed and hands cupped). And you talk to the fishies (with your head face-down in the water), and then you listen to the fishies (turn your head to the side to breath).

So yeah.