Today I swam 30% more lengths than yesterday!

I just remembered that the first time my grandfather tried to teach me swimming was in a walled-off section of a large pond adjacent to a village house in Kerala, and there were a couple of snakes in the room with us. I guess it would make a good story to say he taught me swimming by making me escape the snakes, but he told me it wasn't a big deal, so I wasn't bothered.

Oh, and he made me a float by tying some coconuts together. In fact, that's the only flotation device I ever used (just that one time).

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