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I really, really wished that our high school would've been ritzy enough to be able to have a swimming pool, because I really desperately wanted to swim in the midst of the climatological hell that was August and September instead of doing what we ended up doing instead, i.e. that stupid effin' mile run. I loved swimming. I would've done SO WELL at all my P.E. classes if I'd been allowed to swim instead of run. I hated running ever since I had my first ever P.E. coach, who would cane us if we walked our "warm-up" laps instead of running them like we were supposed to.
I hated playing basketball until I was in HS, when a kindly coach actually took me aside and taught me fundamentals, such as how to shoot a basket. Believe it or not, this important task had not yet been taught to me. But once I was able to do those things, I was thrilled to play basketball in P.E.
Other fun P.E. activities -- volleyball, bowling (yes, we did bowling in P.E.), (HS) flag football, strength conditioning, hockey (minus the skates, prob due to liability reasoning or something).
Everything else I hated, from those stupid repetitive gym exercises (whoo, sprinting to Pat Benatar PLEASE KILL ME NOW) to badminton (really bad news if you're a near-blind person such as myself) to any/all track activities to anything from before high school. And considering the fact that everyone at my HS was female, the whole "time of the month" excuse didn't fly. Also, the time of day our P.E. class was to be held was pretty much determined by how good you were at P.E. The first year I had P.E. I was in the last (i.e. 7th) period of the day, and then in the second year (we had to have two years' worth of P.E.) I was moved up to 4th period, which was conveniently before lunch.
― Those Beautiful Lines (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 7 May 2004 07:09 (twenty years ago) link
i didn't like the mile cos istarted smoking when i swas twelve so it was kindo f for nauught for me to run the mile. i mean, wtf, presidential fitness, it's not like i got to meet bill clonton for running really fast, wtf.
― allyzay, Friday, 7 May 2004 07:12 (twenty years ago) link
they didn't let us do wrestling. seriously i liked swimming a lot but inevewr realy swam because i always had a pss cos of my asthma. i liked doing weight training and arbocis, when iwas in 10th grand (the year i dropped out) all i was taking was pe classes all day, all waeight training and different aerobitcs and dance classes. it wasn't god thos, i was supposed to take english and biology but they gave me a differnet english teacher than the one first semester to fuck that. but seriously i really loved pe, i am not naturally coordinated but i really like working out beacause i wanted to work out as many hours a day as possible when i was bulicmic. i always did well in pe not cos i was good as sports but because i tried really ahrd and won over everyone's hearts with my sad bad news bears style athleticism.
― allyzay, Friday, 7 May 2004 08:06 (twenty years ago) link
eight years pass...
My child is in gym right now, the teacher isn't nice but is real popular with the administrators. My kid is athletic but is bullied. I wish I could change the classes.
I would love to pull the kid out of school but don't want to upset them.