Germantown Swimming Pool

      Have you ever been to any kind of luxurious pool? Well my family went to this amazing pool ( my opinion) and saw some things my normal summer pool didn't have. It had a pool that went up to twenty ft., diving boards and water slides of all sizes.

      First when I entered the pool I couldn't play right away. I had to swim fifteen 50 meter laps. Ten freestyle and five breaststroke. There were two 50 meter pools, a shallow one about 3-4 inches deep, and there was a deep one about 6.5-20 feet deep. The shallow one was more crowded so we had to go to the deep pool. We entered a lane that was 9-10 inches deep. First when I entered I was scared, but then I got used to the depth and swam regularly. When I finished I just spotted a bunch of slides that I didn't notice earlier.

        I saw a the small slides and slid on them. They were very short and got boring after a while. Then I spotted two giant slides and walked toward the slides. To get on the slides you had to climb four flights of stairs. When I reached the top there was a line to go on the slide. When it was my turn to get on the slides I noticed there was one word on each of the slides. One slide was the Pipeliner, the other one was called the Scrambler. First I got on the Pipeliner. The Pipeliner was like a bunch of loops. When I came to the end I went to the other slide. When I got on the Scrambler it was just a bunch of turns. When I got to the end I thought that I would rather ride the Pipeliner that the Scrambler. Suddenly my dad came and told me to try the diving boards.

          I went toward the green diving boards and got nervous. I asked my dad that if I could use the lower one. He said yes so I got on the diving board and did a cannonball. When I came out my body felt pain so my dad told me you are only supposed to land with your head of your feet. So next I did a pencil dive. My body didn't hurt at all. Next my dad told me to pretend to dive like a racing dive. I tried several times and found out how to do it. I mastered the lower board but not the high one. When I got on the high one I did a pencil dive and my face felt weird. I got in the water with a splash. I dived a couple more times and went home.

         I went in a really deep pool, slid down water slides and jumped of diving boards.

Good Colleges

       Have you ever went to look at colleges? Well I did during my trip to Maine. I went to look at these colleges, Yale, M.I.T. ( Massachusetts Institution of Technology).

         My family and I first went to Yale. Tons of people in high school (or looked like) were taking tours about Yale because they probably want to learn a lot of info about an Ivy League school in case they get accepted into the school. They were taking pictures, writing notes and talking with each other. My family just took pictures of the enormous buildings with the school.

         The second college we went to was M.I.T. It was during the afternoon so it was crowded with people who were on tours. They were talking, laughing and being social. It was really noisy so we decided to walk away from the crowded place. one sculpture we went to was a hollow man that was hugging his legs. We could go inside him and get pictures taken of us in him. We walked around the building and saw some M.I.T. students. They all looked gloomy and serious. We just walked around the school trying to avoid them.

        Finally we saw ......................................... HARVARD! Ranked #1 in the country with Princeton. First we saw a man who jump over four people crouched down. I took a picture of him flipping in mid air, it was awesome. After that we went inside and saw a statue of a man the everybody tried to take pictures with. Everybody touched his left shoe. So many people touched it that it lost it's color. I didn't take a picture with the statue because I was scared and there were a lot of people. We strolled inside the school and left.

          I saw Yale, M.I.T. and Harvard during my trip to Maine!!!