My swim teacher wears these shoes. Today we practiced jumping off the diving board and swimming to either the wall or rope without any gear(we started off with fins and a floating board). She wanted me to go to the rope(I'm always picked on as I'm the worst person in the class) but I said I didn't have the strength. I have difficulity swimming both because I'm not strong enough and because I can't figure out how to breathe. I can now swim at least 15 yards on my front without stopping. I can swim up to 50 yards on my back without stopping now. Before I took the swim class, I could barely even get in the water because I have been frightened of water since I nearly drowned at a water park when I was 7.

Well, at least my top didn't flip over completely this time. The last time we practiced jumping off the wall my tankini top flipped completely up and I had to fix it underwater.