Waterloo

"Your head goes like this, thus creating buoyancy; your feet go like this, thus propelling you forward; your arms go like this to steer you. You put it all together and you've got it!" Pg.69

This interested me because while learning to swim we don't look at every detail and mechanical aspect. We just know that we have to move our arms in a certain way and then kick our feet and then we will swim. We don't think about the reasons why that makes us swim. So it is interesting to see how foreigners might learn.

"There was nobody yelling at me in the sea." Pg. 73

This shows how much worse yelling can make a situation. It also shows how much pressure is put on kids and how it influences the outcome of whether they succeed or not. Sometimes being yelled at just makes the activity become boring and that makes you not want to try it again. That is was happened to Firoozeh, she was so nervous because of ehr fathers yelling that she couldn't focus on accomplishing the task at hand.