...and boy, was that different.
I mean, it was different from the pool I'm used to.... and the pool I am used to is the outside pool in Kutztown that is open in Summer from about 12 to 5 (or something like that). If you don't know about the Kutztown pool read the next paragraph to get a feel for it, if you know it far too well you can skip it (or still read it, I mean however you want right? Go wild).
The Kutztown pool has three seperate pools. first of course we have the mini baby-pool with a big mushroom thing that drops water in a curtain around it's base and is about a foot or so deep. Then we have the medium pool for kids that are older and want to swimm, but don't want to go into the BIG ADULT POOL that goes from about 3 feet deep to 12 (ish). It has1 very small slide that ends before you can start counting, and a diving board. We all do quite love and praise it, mostly because it is our only cool outlet besides air conditioning in the summer and overwhelming heat in Pennsylvania, (yes Floridians, I know you are saying to yourself "what a freakin' whimp" but I find summer sincerely hot and sweaty and gross in Pennsylvania). The pool costs five dollar to spend however long you want there (provided you leave before the pool closes) and it also has a small stand where the thirsty and the hungry can satisfy their unrest in nutrition with ring pops and cheese fries.
The Indoor Pool in Schorndorf, Deutschland is big. REALLY BIG. It has five different pools, one for very small babies, one for the waterwing-swimmers and their parents, one that is warmer that the others inside, one that is for swimming practice and laps and such, and the last is a HUGE jacuzzi that stands outside the building through a small opening in the wall. It also has two different diving boards, a smaller and a bigger, and THE MOST GINORMOUS, FANTASTIC WATERSLIDE of any pool I have ever seen (though granted I haven't see many). It is big and purple and windy in a curly-Q type coil shape that goes outside the building and a stop watch clock to see how fast you went.
The pool weirded me out sometimes though, because, though at the kutztown pool we have open showers that you can take, no one uses them. At Schorndorf, they not only have showers, but to go in the pool, you MUST first shower. Something that quite puzzles me, because after all, you're just getting into water right afterwards. In the showers you will find many people who come in after being in the pool and just jump out of their bathing suit and let it all hang-out.
AT FIRST that weirded me out... and i wasn't sure how to react and then I was like, what the hell? Bodies are bodies we all have them, all different shapes and sizes and it shouldn't be a problem to be naked in front of other people, it is simply an American culture thing. In America, being naked is not natural or very liberally excepted whatsoever. I wonder why so many people have a problem with body image?
The other thing that was more funny and gross-ish was that guys here are REALLY into speedos. REALLY into speedos. Some people it was ooooooo, that boy is fiiiiine, and others it was more like.... painful. But I mean if they wanna wear a bright purple speedo, more power to 'em!
And the BIGGEST difference was in my ability of swimming. You see my sisters both were rather good swimmers,my eldest sister was even on the swim team for quite a while, but me... I tried, I failed, I switched to soccer. And I must give it to the Kutztown Swim Team, they kick ass and take names and I.... I can't really do the breathing rhythm properly.... at all. I will admit I am getting better, but as I attempted to keep up with my friends practicing for our Gym grade in swimming, I couldn't help but think, props to those swimmers. They didn't pick nothing easy.
Hang tight! Hope y'all have a marvelous week!
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