My First Competition

My first swimming competition was extraordinary. I use to swim, but I have never been   to a competition.  My husband convinced me to go to the competition.  That day we got up at four in the morning, because   that event was in other stated in México. In Nayarit, near to the Pacific Ocean, but the competition wasn´t in the sea, it was in a volcano crater, like a lake, the name is “Laguna Santa Maria del Oro”. One interesting thing about that place is that people say that is bottomless, and I was so scared.

 We drove about four hours. When we arrive, we saw a crowd around the lake, they are swimmers ready for fight and get a good position and make better times.  I felt nervous and I couldn´t eat breakfast, I just ate a fruit milk shake. It was the time, I was ready, and everybody too.  When the bells started, everybody jump inside of the lake. I swam for an hour and a half. While I was swimming, I could feel the hotter and cooler stream, I was thinking about the bottomless as well.

  I was so tired, because I swam about four km, it means around three miles.  When I touched the finish line I couldn’t believe it, I was very excited, first  the staff gave me a banana, and my award, a beautiful medal,  then, I saw my husband waiting for me in  the line.

After that my parents, my husband, and me, ate “chicharrones de pescado”, a typical Mexican dish, and we returned to Guadalajara in the afternoon.

That day was very fun. I didn´t get a first, second or third place, but I was so excited.

 By Jessica