Thursday, April 23, 2015 "Swimming is Awkward."

Thursday, April 23, 2015
Week: 36
Songs to Remember: K-Lubbing 2.0 (July - December 2014 K-Pop Mega-Mashup) - SHIMMIXES

        Okay, it's April 23. I took off my shirt today, outside. For the first time, since, well, years. Whoever thought of having High schoolers swim through each other's legs needs to experience it themselves.

        Alright. So, World Hi- oh right, we only had 3 classes today. Oh, Kay. So, to start it off, I got woken up at 7:00 AM today. From the light coming through the glass doors (or whatever you call them), I knew it was 7:00 AM, and not 8:00 AM. All 10th graders are supposed to come to school and take a bootleg science test at 9:00 AM today. That means I basically get about an extra hour of sleep. Last night the school called (during the time when I take my naps) reminding us (even though they've posted on every single site, board, and email possible) that we have a test tomorrow at 9:00 AM.

        I guess my mom thought that it was just to remind us that we have a test at 9:00 AM, buuuut school remains the same time, at 8:00 AM. Like, what? Why would they call us then? How could we forget when our teachers talk about it, people anticipate it, it's on the school calendar, site, board, announcements, and email. So, I got woken up an hour early. I tried going back to sleep, but that of course that doesn't work as well as you'd think when you have the thought of "I gotta wake up in exactly one hour for school". Anyways, the test was boring. Was it easy? Yeah, I mean, I guess. It would've been easier if they had given us this test last year, when we were in 9th grade, 'cause literally, it was just Biology questions. I forgot like half of this s***, so I was like "Aww f***". But what are the chances that my testing room is in a Biology teacher's classroom. Still didn't help me though.

        After that was lunch time, aaand after lunch was 4th period. Which is P.E. Which is swimming. Yeah. So I'm walking down there, we go in the locker rooms and we change. Not even the worst part, let me tell you first. A lot of s*** to be put in a tiny locker. I swear though, even with big lockers, I still don't understand how people manage to fit their giant traveler's camping kits in their lockers. It's magic, that's what. So, we're changing. I was debating whether or not to keep my underpants on, I was like "Do I just, yeah, or, nahh?". So, I just go to the stalls, remove my undies, put on my swim trunks, go back to my locker, get my towel, remove my shirt, sweater, take off my socks, shoes, and proceed to the outside.

        Does not feel like my uncle's pool-side barbeques. Does not. Very, very weird atmosphere, for me at least, and a very weirs experience seeing people half-naked, including me, with those people being around my age, whom I know, who are in the same class as me, and for the next 6 week. Very, weird. We stand in role call order, then, put we put our towels to the side, take a 5 second short shower each before we go into the pool. Yes, the shower water was cold. Yes, the pool was cold. Well, warmish cold. I was shivering when I first entered it, probably only because I haven't been in a body of water that deep in about 5 years. Or so. This was the small, "warmup" pool by the way. We started off with, swimming around (well, walking really) the outer ring of the pool. We were basically creating a bootleg whirlpool. The teacher had us move one direction, then switch, the again, then switch, it was all very, very weird.

        I didn't know what to expect next. The teacher told us to pick a partner. Thank goodness my buddy (I guess) Hd is I'm my class. She was like "At wanna be partners" and I'm like "Aight". So, what we had to do, was hold hands (yes, hold em') and hold our breath for as long as we can underwater, while floating of course. She was part of the swim team, heh, so uh, yeah. We did that a couple times, then we had to pair up with another pair of people. In our group of 4 people, we had to all hold hands and float, and hold our breaths. I don't think I got in enough air because I came up a bit too early, and the teacher was like "Drew, they were doing great and you just had to come up". Jokingly of course. And uh, next was we had to exchange partners and try to sit "Indian style" underwater. Umm, alright, I don't know why anyone would want to sit underwater, but fine. I tried it, my partner and I floated straight up, hell, I couldn't even get my booty to touch the bottom, even though we were in the shallow part. The teacher's advice was to blow out our air when we go down. Yeah, I don't think we could stay down long if we did that. I tried, I had to go back up immediately because, well, I ran out of f***ing oxygen.

        I honestly did not know what we were gonna do next. We had to pair back up with our original partners, one of us had to get near the end of the pool, the other had to be about several feet from us. So it was like, 2 parallel lines, facing each other. I did not know what we were gonna do next. I was kinda, well, yeah I was kinda surprised to find out that we were gonna have to swim under and between our partner's legs. Yeah. Even I was surprised. Who's idea was it to have half-naked hormone-fluxuated teenagers swim between eachothers legs as part of a High school swim class. *sigh*. Anyways, I have never really tried swimming under, before, in my life. I've swam across water, not under it. So, I was like "Aight, here goes" and the teacher blows her whistle. I'm not even sure if I successfully did it or not. I had my eyes closed because I didn't want to get chlorine in my eyes. Did you know, oh wait- I already said it in my last lost, never mind. So, that was done. Now it was the other partner's turn. The teacher blew the whistle and as I expected, Hd just swam between my legs like it was nothing, like, f***ing, ECHO THE DOLPHIN. But yeah. After a couple times of that bootleg awkward swim activity, we had to get with a different pair this time. So as a group of four, I kinda guessed what we were going to do here. Yeah. Have one person swim through three people. S***.

        I can't even swim through one, how could I swim through three? Ah wells. We each took turns swimming through our classmates' legs. I barely succeeded. Barely. And because of this bootleg scheduling, we had thirty minutes of swim time. Full swim time. The next activity (if you would even call it that) was to have all the guys do handstands to have the girls rate "how hairy their legs are". Whwhha-at? Alright, why does she keep thinking that everyone here swims for a living, or at least recreationally in their spare time. She blew the whistle, I tried to handstand, fail miserably, hope nobody sees, thank god they were paying attention to the buff dudes, I'm good. Then it was the girl's turn to see who has the "smallest feet". The dudes really were just, shocked at the fact of how white this one girl's feet were, heh. Surprisingly (what the f*** am I talking 'bout, I expected this s***) most of the girls did it without much effort. That was about the last activity we did. Apparently the teacher was going off of bootleg stuff she wrote on her clipboard. We talked for a bit, then went back up to go change. Ho-ly, s***, the coldness was cold. Changing back while wet was probably harder than I expected. First we had to shower, but of course the showers in the locker rooms would have like, warm water. So it just made us even colder after we got out.

        Not being able to put stuff on the floor was the worst, because the whole f***ing floor was WET. Also, god damn socks. And underpants. I was at first worried about my hair, but socks were more of a pain. I got dressed finally, three minutes to spare before the bell rang, and walked back to the P.E area (the pool area was located far from the P.E area). First day of real swimming done. If I were to rate, on a scale of 1 to Echo the Dolphin on the awkwardness of these whole situations, I would rate it ECHO THE F***ING DOLPHIN. Holy f***. I expected, swimming, but, what the f***?

        Alright, I think that was all there was to cover from that those traumatic turn of events. Alright, so maths. We got our grade averages today. I was just hoping that I wouldn't drop down below an 80% due to my recent tests and quizzes, and thank god it didnt. An 82%. A bit lower than what I'd like, but I can definitely bump it up. Hopefully. Hmmm, yeah. That-that was it. We just did the final lesson for chapter 12, aaand worked on work. No time to pass back the quizzes, so we're gonna get rent by those tomorrow. Thank goodness I finished reading those 2 chapters of "1984" after doing the bootleg science test, or else I would still be awake right now. Which I am, it's, 12:27 AM right now.

        Chinese was interesting. We did work, random bits of looking over the new lesson, aaaand the teacher was not feeling well right, she didn't have much energy today because she was sick. So, for some time, she was like, sitting behind her desk and correcting work or something. Anyways, we didn't see her. People were talking, doing their own thing for a bit. Zi, her buddy (well I guess my buddy now too and group member whom we will call her) Js, my buddy Ic, and me, were just, browsing on our phones. We got a bit carried away, I didnt pay attention to my surroundings, all of a sudden, we had to hand our phones over to the teacher, heh. Pretty, embarrassing. The teacher then decided to have a photoshoot with her holding up all the phones she just confiscated. Even posted them on Facebook, heh.

        Also today, my buddy (I guess) Dn was pretty, talkative. She spotted me from far places around school, a total of about 3 times or so today. Even when she was getting into her dad's car when I'm near the place where I get into my mom's car. She shouts "Bye Drew!" from across the t-intersection at the back of the school. Yes I said "Bye" back. But yeah, even my spotting skills aren't that polished as hers. Also, Snapchat. She snap chatted me the whole day. First was talking about how she pissed off her 4 ex's (4?!) after a conversation. What surprised me more was that she has 4 ex's. Then she pulled like that bootleg Tumble kisses thing on Snaphat and I'm just like "*sugh*. 3 TIMES". Then at about 11:00 PM, she proceeds to take a shower. Sends me Snapchats as she came out of her shower. But, it was only the top torso, don't worry. Top, top torso. What surprised me more than the post-shower Snapchats, was that she took a shower at this time of hour. Seriously, who does that? And uh, yeahhhh. Also I had to fix my mom's computer, bootleg viruses and adware everywhere on it. Ran Malwarebytes on it, came up with 1001 threats detected. *sigh*. Also I might just prank call these scammers (from those bootleg scam adwares with the phone number) and just f*** with them.

        And so, I got a lot of surprises today. Definitely not ones I expected, nor wanted. Do I look forward to Dn? No. Do I look forward to swimming? Hell no. God my back hurts after writing this for an hour. Alright, give me my sleep now please. See you tomorrow.