My Childhood Experience - Revised

     You were in third grade of elementary school when you started to learn how to swim. When the summer vacation began, your mother persuaded you to go to the swimming pool at the local sports center every morning. You resisted at first, but your mother insisted that men should know how to swim and she thought that swimming would make you healthy. So every morning, you woke up early and went to the swimming pool.

     You didn’t know how to swim at all, so you started from absolute basics. On the first day, the instructor promised you that if you try hard, you would be able to swim before the vacation ends. After several days, you ran into a girl. You were very surprised and astonished because she was in the same class and you had a good feeling towards her. You and that girl awkwardly said hello to each other. Then while you were outside the lane, you stole a glance at her and were surprised that she was very good at swimming. You, who had strong self-esteem, felt terrible that you hadn’t learn swimming earlier. That day, you practiced harder than ever. You and the girl met occasionally after that first and awkward meeting.

Time passed, and your swimming gradually improved. One day, you went to the pool as usual. And the girl in your class was also there that day. You also chatted a little with that girl since you were in the same lane with her.

Then, after a while, your instructor came to you and suggested a race between you and another boy. You had never seen him before, but he seemed to be very good at swimming. You were surprised by the unexpected suggestion and tried to escape, but it was useless. The instructor persuaded that it is going to be exciting and a good opportunity to check how much you improved. Further opposition would make the situation weird. Thus, unwillingly, you agreed to the offer.

You were only a 10-year-old kid, but you were also a man and you couldn’t lose in front of a woman. Although you were not yet any close to the perfect swimmer, you made a firm resolution that you will win the race. When the race started, you tried your best. You moved your legs in a maximum speed. You quickly looked at your opponent, and he was increasing his lead over you. Soon, you got tired but couldn’t stop. You moved your legs faster than before. You thought with a good chance, she might be watching you. Suddenly, you couldn’t move your leg. Then, your leg started to hurt very badly. You got a cramp in your leg.

The instructor was very surprised and ran to you to rescue you. You were disgracefully on the floor getting help from the instructor.  You were very ashamed and couldn’t think of anything else.

    Walking back home from the pool, limping, you thought that you were too competitive. You shouldn’t have been so overly competitive. Looking back, it was not a big deal at all. After that day, you never tried to impress other people by pretending.

A Quotation from "The Martian Chronicles"

"No, you're not"

     I like this quote simply because it was the most shocking line in this book so far. Captain John Black was relieved and appeased when his dead family showed up. He spent a fine day with them and was trying to get to sleep. All of a sudden, a strange hypothesis stroke his head. He imagined that all of his families are delusions and hallucinations made by the martians, who were trying to repel the alien intrusion. Then, he tried to escape from his hallucinatory house but his "brother" Ed stops him. Captain John lies that he was going for a drink of water. Then Ed replies that he is not thirsty. John replies back by saying that he is thirsty. Ed finally says "No, you're not" then kills Captain John Black.

     This is also a line which makes it clear that the third expedition ended up as another failure.

My Childhood Experience

     You were third grade in elementary school when you started to learn how to swim. When the summer vacation started, your mother persuaded you to go to the swimming pool at the local sports center every morning. You resisted at first, but your mother was very insistent because she thought men should know how to swim and she thought that swimming would make you healthy. So every morning, you woke up early and went to the swimming pool.

     You didn’t know how to swim at all, so you started from the absolute basics. On the first day, the instructor promised you that if you try hard, you would be able to swim before the vacation ends. After several days had passed, you ran into a girl. You were very surprised and astonished because she was in the same class and you had a good feeling towards her. You and that girl awkwardly said hello to each other. Then while you were outside the lane, you stole a glance at her and were surprised that she was very good at swimming. You, who had strong self-esteem, felt terrible that you hadn’t learn swimming earlier. That day, you practiced harder than ever. You and the girl met occasionally after that first and awkward meeting.

Time passed, and your swimming gradually improved. One day, you went to the pool as usual. And the girl in your class was also there that day. You also chatted a little with that girl since you were in the same lane with her.

Then, after a while, your instructor came to you and suggested a race between you and another boy. You had never seen him before, but he seemed to be very good at swimming. You were surprised by the unexpected suggestion and tried to escape from it, but it was useless. He persuaded that it was going to be exciting and a good opportunity to check how much you improved. Further opposition would make the situation weird. Thus, unwillingly, you agreed to the offer.

You were only 10 years old kid, but you were also a man and you couldn’t lose in front of a woman. Although you were not yet any close to the perfect swimmer, you made a firm resolution that you will win the race. When the race started, you tried your best to win the race. You moved your legs in a maximum speed. You quickly looked at your opponent, and he was increasing his lead over you. Soon, you got tired but you couldn’t stop. You moved your legs faster than before. You thought with a good chance, she might be watching you. Suddenly, you couldn’t move your leg. Then, your leg started to hurt very badly. You got a cramp in your leg.

The instructor was very surprised and ran to you to rescue you. I was disgracefully on the floor getting help from the instructor.  You were very ashamed and couldn’t think of anything else.

    Walking back home from the pool, limping, you thought that you were too competitive. You shouldn’t have been so overly competitive. Looking back, it was not a big deal at all. After that day, you never tried to impress other people by pretending.