First day of practice, nervous, happy, intimidated. I was waiting on the bleachers along with all the other kids, just waiting for the coach to come out and tell us what to do. I was always called the social butterfly of the family but for some reason i was frozen in place without being able to ask anyone anything. I then saw Patrick Wong.
Patrick and I went to preschool and summer preschool ( i guess it was called, daycare thing). I went up to him and we both had not known what to do, a guy by the name of Mchail and Jeff Engler came to us and we just started talking. Finally the coach came out and he told us to go get changed and meet back out on the deck. We got changed and the he said " get in and do a hundred"
I assumed he meant A HUNDRED LAPS!!! I felt stupid when it turned out one lap is equivillent to twenty-five yards. An hour had pass. I got out and repeated that for two months. At the end of the day, coach Bill annouced the red and blue meet. I was completely confused when i had hear this. I asked what the red and blue meet was, it is a meet where we collect our times and just have fun racing eachother.
Everyone had to swim every event. I was so nervous for my first event, what would happen if i got a bad time, what would happen if I false started or went too late? I was pacing around over and over agin till i saw some of the races before me.I was filled with excitement to see them sore through the air and into the water like a bird diving for fish. It was finally my turn for the twenty five free, i got on the blocks , everything was silent, the horn went off, i dove in, sprinting, my heart was racing, i got to the wall with a smile on my face and the timer asked my name, I said " Bobby Ingram".
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