I always loved to swim as a child. I felt much better in the water than I did on land. (I am dorky enough to sort of relate to Victor Krum because of that - I felt as awkward on land as he's portrayed.) One summer, when I was 10, we spent two weeks in Greece and I swam a lot! I was pretty good at free-diving at that point, so I was more below the surface than over and diving for all sorts of things at the bottom of the very clear Mediterranean. Once, I brough a shell back up and got a terrible shock when the mollusc inside the shell sort of suddenly turned itself out. I dropped it and was afraid to go under again for a short while. Even though the poor thing could never hurt me and had probably just been trying to get underwater again so it wouldn't die. At least it didn't. I would've had a guilt-trip about that :-)
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I always loved to swim as a child. I felt much better in the water than I did on land. (I am dorky enough to sort of relate to Victor Krum because of that - I felt as awkward on land as he's portrayed.)
One summer, when I was 10, we spent two weeks in Greece and I swam a lot! I was pretty good at free-diving at that point, so I was more below the surface than over and diving for all sorts of things at the bottom of the very clear Mediterranean.
Once, I brough a shell back up and got a terrible shock when the mollusc inside the shell sort of suddenly turned itself out. I dropped it and was afraid to go under again for a short while. Even though the poor thing could never hurt me and had probably just been trying to get underwater again so it wouldn't die. At least it didn't. I would've had a guilt-trip about that :-)