Swimming Lessons

Jason and I wanted to sign the girls of swimming lessons this fall because we didn't want them to go the entire winter without swimming. We feared that not swimming for so long would set us back to square one. I started to look around for swimming lessons but most group lessons are in Czech and therefore not an option. I did find one group lesson but they wanted 4,500Kc per child for a 60 minute session and the group would have 5 kids in it. So basically each child gets 12 minutes of instruction since at this age they can't really do big group things in the water. We decided there was no way we were going to pay 9,000Kc ($530USD) for our kids to get a total of 3 hours of lessons each. That just seemed ridiculous to us. I decided that instead I would bring them to the pool every Tuesday after school and teach them myself. Today was our first trip to the pool. The lesson went surprisingly well. Sofia was swimming half way across the pool by herself. While the pool is not a large pool it was still nice to see her progressing with her swimming. Ali also did a good job. She isn't swimming by herself yet but she is very close. She loves jumping in off the side and swimming to me. I have to give her a slight lift to get a breath and then back under she goes and keeping swimming. If she could just figure out how to get her head back out of the water she would be all set.