Be dying to learn
The water kept filling my lungs, my sight blurred. I was almost smothered at that moment when I learned to swim. I have to use an extreme way to understand learning . When I was six, I learned my lesson which taught me how to learn things. We cannot contain all the information in our brains since the capacity of our brains is limited. Therefore, if one wants to learn things by listening and memorizing, that's not enough, we need to do infinite practicing and trying.
I remember that it was a quite hot Summer. All I heard was childrens' laughing and Parents exhorted their children to be careful when swim. One day my mum asked me if I want to learn how to swim since many children I knew have already learned how to swim. What was my answer? Of course not! How horrible it is to learn swim. However, my mum was right, I guess I was the last one that didn't know how to swim within the people I know. I didn't want to laughed by anybody,so I went to learn swim.
I met the coach. He was a Chinese man who had really healthy and black skin, the best word that I could describe him was brawny. I was happy to see him because he seemed nice, then he began to teach me and my friend to swim. My friend was one month younger than me, his name was William. William has learned swimming for a week, so I had to catch up with him. The coach taught me how to breathe and then we had practices under the water. It seemed like swimming was not hard as I thought. After two weeks tiring practice, my skin turned wheat, and I became fitter, I could basically breathe under the water with gestures.
The horrible thing has finally come on that day. That day was unforgettable to me: the coach wanted us to swim in a pool of depth of 2 meters. I was so scared I because I wasn't ready for that since I just learned to swim for two weeks, and it was off water. I had no idea of how this is going to be. The coach came closer and closer to me, I got nervous, I could even feel my heartbeats beating like a drum. The moment that coach asked me to swim in the pool I galloped to the girls' bathroom and crying inside for half an hour. It was such a challenge for me to swim in this pool. I just knew how to breathe and how to do the gesture, I didn't even know how to make breathing work with gesture in order to swim in the pool. I cried for a long time, and my mum came to convince me to go. The problem was that I was not that credulous since I was worried about what if I drown in the water? However, my mum got mad and she gave me no choice, I had to face what I need to face.
I followed my mum to the swimming pool and saw the coach who was sitting beside the pool. He smiled without any blame, I guessed he understood the reason why I wouldn't go swim in the pool. He just said' if you never try, how do you know you can't do it?' He was right but I still couldn't, I was a coward at that time. When I look around, I saw kids who were diving under the water where as I was staring at the pool and I did not know what to do. Suddenly, a strong force behind me put me into the water. I felt dizzy and asked for help in the water, I could feel that I almost smothered. But I could see through my blur sight the coach just stood there, and even my mum was watching me. I felt my lungs became heavy and I couldn't breathe;I felt like I was dying. However, in order to save myself, I began to think what my coach taught me. I tried to relax and began to put my head above the water to breathe. I was gasping and some water still came into my throat, but I tried harder to make my head up and I used my lungs to breathe. Finally I could float in the water without keep ' drinking water' . Then I tried to make my gesture right, I stretched my arms in front of me. Beside that, I also made my legs to pedal and to push the water backward so that I could move forward. I did it! Although I was almost exhausted.
That was the story of me learning swimming. I know it was exaggerated, but it was a true and unforgettable story. Just as what I mentioned, I was dying to learn; or it was because I was dying I learned how to swim . I realize that learning is continuous and there is more than one way to learn such as practicing and trying. Once my teacher had taught me' how can you assert that you cannot do it if you never try?' Learning should not be limited in transmission of knowledge from one to another, it is supposed to be practiced and tried in life . I have seen a very inspiring quote' there's no failure in Thomas Edison's life, there is only hundreds time of trying'. As we can see, we can get knowledge or techniques by more than one way. That is also the reason why I chose ropes course, because I have never tried it, and I have been practicing hard recently. Thus,practicing is very crucial for one to grasp a skill, that is so-called ' Practices makes perfect'.
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