Well...i said i would try to update this blog every month or so. guess im really exaggerating the "so".
After 2 and a half months of college, i have decided that i have enough information to entertain an audience for a little bit!
I guess ill start with swimming since thats what my blog is named after... Swimming...is going... During the preseason (when i moved it August 28th to start of season Sept. 7) i felt like i was on the track team! a lot of running, which i dont mind, but it was hard going from no running to a lot. We ran to the beach a lot and had beautiful weather and beautiful views to be tortured to while doing endless body holds, sit ups, jumps, push ups, and running "the hill". Once the season actually started, more swimming was involved and it just has been down hill (or uphill?) from there. A usual day for me starts with weights and ends with my legs feeling like they are about to fall out of my hip sockets. I am sore from tuesday until saturday ish and get about a day to recover. It has been the hardest swimming i have ever been exposed to. I swim, i lift weights, i run, i do dryland (body squats, push ups, sit ups, etc) for about 18 hours a week, not counting if i have a meet. By the time i get to a meet, my body is usually so exhausted that i feel like i can not preform as well as others. About a week ago, i couldnt even walk normally and was expected to preform in a meet. My preformance and not been as good as it usually is around this time of season but all the older swimmers are just saying its because my body isnt used to what its going through. Im really excited for our rested meet that we have the first week of decemeber which we get to rest for (dont have to swim as much, no weightlitfting or dryland) for a couple of days before. Thats when i hope to show the coaches the reason im on this team :)
As for the team itself, i really like it. I love the head coach, assistant coach and my sprinting coach. My coaches will seriously walk up and down the side of the pool watching every one of my strokes. Its much different that the coaching i got in high school. I like it so much better because they know so much about the sport and are really there to make me faster and have taught me things that help improve my stroke really well, things that i thought i was doing right before but now i found out i can improve it. I like my team mates as well. There are about 27 girls on the team (not counting divers) and then theres an equal amount of boys. I like how many people there are because it gives you a great option to be able to find someone who you will get a long with really well.
Now for the college part... Right now im in french, biology, math and english. My french class is so easy. I get really annoyed and we always have stupid bookwork and little worksheets that just annoy me but I'm glad i get to use this class to ease into the college foreign language world and solidify my foundation of the language. My biology class is a joke for me as well. Since i took AP bio in high school, im just relearning everything i already went to in depth. Why didnt i test out of bio 102? Because im a horrible test taker and got a 1 on the AP test...poo. And since i didnt test out of math i couldnt take a chemistry class. Oh well, i guess thats why they say freshman year classes are usually boring. My math class is literally my FST class all over. I love it. I feel smart in math for the first time ever. I have the best grade ive ever had in a math class right now. I know that feeling wont last for long because today, i just signed up for a Calc class for next semester. I already have plans to get a tutor for that. And english ...is english. Its a pretty horrible class. Im liking it more now because we are really getting in depth to our research paper. Im researching conserving the rainforest so i got really excited that i could pick a topic that i really care about and could use that for a class. The work load was pretty tough for all my classes. In most of my classes, my first exam was my worst grade. I just think i didnt have it figured out yet how to do the whole swimming and college thing. I have a good regime now and am managing my time much better (besides for now, because im supposed to be revising my english paper).
Now social part of college...I haven't really met a lot of people. I havent really tried. I have the swim team. I kinda feel bad because i met someone in my math class, and every time she asked to hang out, i had a swim function so that friendship never happened. The swim team is a really solid group of people to be around though :) i dont mind.
Living in the dorms is a different story though. It is by far my least favorite part about college. I cants stand the dorm food and im constantly enduring acid reflux during swim practice and always feeling like crap because of it. I try my hardest to get protein and vegetables(even though sometimes it includes choking down greenish brown green beans). Just all the food has so much grease and who knows if all the grains are refined and white or if the apples have a waxy coat of pesticides on it... I also dont like the floor i live on or the suite i live in. We have a trouble some room mate who started off our experience here rocky and now theres just tension. Also there are 2 guys on our floor who are friends with her and they always come in here and are loud and mean and disrespectful and i cant stand them. I also hate my suit style dorm room. I wake up in the morning every time the suite door or bath room door, or anyone elses door shuts. its horrible.
The most i miss about home, to be quite honest, would be my friends of course, my family, my cat, my church, good food, and the kids i baby sat. I miss my cat quite a lot since she used to sleep in my bed and now theres no kitty any more :(
I dont know really what else to say but if you have any questions please post them and i will respond!!
Love,
Sophia
