> # Fourth swimming session

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> Posted by Chris (and Jamie) on September 20, 2016 at 22:00:49

> I promised to write about today's swimming session and say what Seb turned up in - whether his mum had let him buy his own clothes or not - so here is that account as promised. I will call a halt to these accounts as they are all rather similar in a way, just us three, our teacher and sixteen boys getting wet in our clothes whilst they learn to gain confidence in the water and to swim properly, so it gets a bit tedious trying to make it sound interesting to people not there (i.e. you) and to be perfectly honest I've got more than enough school work to do rather than writing what are basically repeat pieces. Anyway here it is.

> We had our first swimming session since my chat with Seb's mum. We were all wondering if she would allow him to get some clothes for himself or insist on getting something cheaper for him to wear herself. Seb's path and mine did not cross at school on Friday or yesterday so I had no forewarning of what had happened.

> We gathered as usual at the pool after school lessons or sports had finished, and everyone, ourselves and the boys were attired in our usual jeans and tees or sweatshirts ready for our coaching session. Seb appeared in a pair of stone washed denim jeans and a red sweatshirt and blue canvas shoes. They looked new and definitely were not the clothes he had worn previously and he looked more at ease and was chatting and interacting with the others in his group more animatedly than previously. All sixteen of the boys gathered around us at the side of the pool to hear what our plan of action was for the session. Michael, our teacher, asked the boys if there was anything they particularly wanted to do or have more practice at and Seb was the first to pipe up.

> "Is there any chance that we might to able to have a go on the assault course, most of us didn't try it on the open day and it would get us used to getting wet in a more realistic situation than here in the pool." Seb asked, looking around at the others for support. there was a chorus of other voices in support.

> Michael looked at Jamie, Harry and me and asked "Would you guys be happy with getting muddy today as well as just the usual soaking ?" We nodded or spoke in agreement with Jamie grinning and saying "Always happy to do that !"

> "I suggest we do two groups today and two tomorrow" Michael said "I have a meeting after this session and don't really have the time to clean up properly after a dirty time on the assault course. Why don't you take your groups today, Chris and Harry, and Jamie and me can take ours' tomorrow, is that OK ?" So we agreed on doing that to loud cheers from the boys.

> Turned out that none of our eight boys had done the assault course on the open day so they were all keen to try it. One of Harry's boy's, Clive, had done something similar before but it had not involved mud, just water based obstacles. Before we left the pool, Michael insisted that everyone jump in the pool and swim a width, however badly, and so Harry and I jumped in and watched as each as each of our groups jumped in off the side and swam a width between us in turn. When everyone was soaked through and standing on the side again dripping wet, we gather our eight boys and headed off to the assault course, a walk across the playing fields of about 200 yards. Most of the eight were following Harry and me and we could hear them laughing and joking as they watched each other marching along in their sodden clothes, making rude or derogatory remarks in a jokey fashion about each other and eventually us. Harry eventually lost patience with listening to comments that he was unable to hear properly or know at whom they were directed.

> "Look guys, if you have any comments about us it would be polite to say them to our faces rather than talking behind our backs." Harry chided them "I am sure we can both withstand a few compliments about how good we look in wet clothes, or how impressive our physiques are compared to you lot of overweight, lazy, flabby and frankly ghastly excuses for boys." That silenced them for a while.

> "We weren't talking about you, honest." Charlie protested.

> "I believe you, then, thousands wouldn't !" Harry retorted.

> After that they continued chatting and laughing as we walked.

> "Chris ?" Seb asked.

> "Yes, what is it ?" I asked.

> "Thanks for speaking to my mother last week. She gave me the money to buy these and a few other clothes and says it's my decision what I wear from now on; I do have to learn how to use the washing machine and dryer, but I think that's a good deal, don't you ?"

> "No, easy enough after the first go." I said "So where did you get those new clothes ?" I asked looking down at his wet jeans and sweatshirt "Better those than that expensive stuff, especially for getting wet and muddy."

> "I went to that market stall in the town, he sells all sorts of things there and made a good guess at my sizes, they fit just fine. I got two pairs of slim-fit jeans, a couple of teeshirts and sweatshirts, all for less than fifty quid !!" Seb told me enthusiastically "And I got some socks, canvas shoes and underwear at another stall."

> "Great, they'll get a good trashing in the mud today, but they'll feel better afterwards as they shrink a bit for a better fit, and get softer." I said.

> "These jeans feel better wet than dry already." Seb enthused as he smoothed his hands down his thighs as we walked "I'm going to enjoy the assault course ..... never got really muddy before, except when playing football and that's not really, really muddy is it ?"

> "Not the same at all; if you fall in here - and you will - you'll really know what mud feels like ....." I laughed "and don't be surprised if you react in other ways too, most guys do when completely soaked in mud."

> "What do y ................ oh, I get it ............ hadn't thought about that. Do you ?"

> "Nearly always .............." I told him "It's not something you can control you know !"

> "So I've discovered ................." Seb laughed "Usually at the most inappropriate times and for absolutely no reason."

> "Welcome to the club .................. most of us have similar experiences as far as I can tell from all my mates." I said.

> "Me too !" Seb replied "Rather nice to know it's not just me ............."
> "Well we're here now - gather round everyone." I called and explained what was involved in the first obstacle we were going to try - the monkey bars over the muddy pool of deep water - these boys were going to get really muddy very quickly, dunked in thin liquid mud if they fell off the bars, which was a 100% certainty first time doing it.

> Johnny went first and made to the sixth bar quite quickly by swinging energetically but then his stamina faded and his grip loosened and he managed to hold on just by one arm hoping that he could swing himself far enough forward to reach the next bar and get his momentum going again. He hit the muddy water with a huge splash and disappeared from view before spluttering to the surface and wading forward to the end and clambering up onto the finish platform. He was grinning from ear to ear. He was brown from head to foot; fair hair, face, front teeth, his nice yellow sweatshirt with the Maserati logo and name on the chest, his previously dark blue, slightly faded skinny fit jeans that were now showing a sizeable bulge and his white trainers - all now a uniform milk chocolate brown. He got a round of applause and cheers from the others and took a bow before hopping down off the platform and rejoining the group.

> Will, Owen and Clive went next and none of them faired any better than Johnny. The only thing they all had in common was ending up looking like him - covered in brown mud from head to toe. Charlie went next and he managed to get to the last bar but he let go a bit before his feet were firmly on the finish platform, slipped and fell backwards into the pool. Seb got as far as the eighth bar and fell in trying to grab that. The twins, George and Steven, did as badly as each other and when they emerged covered in the brown mud it was even more impossible to tell them apart than before, so we took to calling them both "Georven" which they thought highly amusing. With all eight of them now soaked in mud, they started calling for us to show them how to do it properly. Harry made it all the way without falling in. I did the same, but Harry pushed me back in before I had got my balance fully, and when I clambered out I grabbed him and threw us both backwards into the mud again, so we were all equally muddy now, much to the amusement of the boys. So we moved on to the rest of the course.

> We all did the belly-crawl through the muddy trench, the wobbly stepping-stone logs across the mud pit and wading along the water filled trench clambering over and under the cross bars. We scrambled up the netting and over the top rail before sliding down into the deep mud pit and then we did the zip wire, landing in the deepest of the mud on the course. We were all totally covered by then. I knew that I was tenting out my jeans more than normal and Harry was the same. Whilst we stood watching the final three boys come down the zip wire, Seb approached and held his hand up for a high-five.

> "You were quite right, this is very exciting - best fun in ages" he grinned at me "I really didn't think it would happen to me ......" he grinned as we clashed hands. But he was right, he was very obviously enjoying himself and showing it not just by the huge grin on his face.

> The last obstacle we tackled was the watery ditch that we had to swim along as it was too full and too deep to wade along for almost all of it's length. We had saved it until last so that everyone could at least get a bit cleaned up before heading back to the showers. Most of us took the opportunity to splash around for a bit in the shallower water at the end and we trooped back to the school buildings largely clean but still soaking wet, it felt great.

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