We had a pool in our suburban home in Zimbabwe. I wanted to swim but did not know how to. So I watched other swimmers & thought about how I would move my arms and then my legs, & then breathe from side to side. But I was too scared to actually jump into the pool; my excuse was that I would first learn everything about swimming, & then I would jump into the shallow end of the pool. I practiced the front crawl in the bathtub & I chipped my front tooth for my efforts. Then, when