Thanks as you can’ I haven’t bothered to post much. It’s also surprises some people that when you can’t swim you tend to ovoid and keep away from anything that involves water. Further reinforcing that if you can never learn how to if you first don’t get wet (safely).
Also I did get a lot of negativity just from asking family and friends, with things like being too old to learn, swimming lessons are just for kids (adult ones aren’t as widely advertised) and it was a waste of time/money etc.
Yep, you guessed right I am in the UK, Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire to be precise, one of the most landlocked counties in the UK, so no swimming in the sea for me without quite a long drive first (I wouldn’t anyway).
It’s not just my school, but since learning, but all schools/pools (or the ones I’ve known about) don’t like kids wearing googles for school swimming lessons, with out of school lessons being ok. But it’s mostly for health and safety with the kids playing with them, hurting themselves or others etc. And there is the other thought that if a kid only ever swam in a pool wearing googles, if for instance they fell off in the pool or they fell into open water without them they wouldn’t be used to not being without them.
But I did start off my lessons with prescription googles (or as close as I could find) which were almost as hard to find as the actually swimming lessons, and I’m still annoyed that I have to pay a lot more over a normal pair. But they have been a big help, as I know while swimming it’s not like you’ll be reading etc, but not being able to make out shapes (short sighted) and faces from a distance can be quite disorientating.
And the big difference witch surprised me and someone who I knew who learned as a kid (unfortunately they weren’t interested in teaching/helping me) is that kids less are broken up into stages, badges and awards etc, whereas the adult lessons tend to be just 10 weeks and once you’re able to swim 5 meters (or the width of the pool) you’re done. Witch personally could be almost as dangerous and not being able to swim.
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