So my whole life, I've been a pretty bad swimmer. It's not like I didn't try or anything, it's just I never really got into it and I really lacked the skills. In Australia you would start primary school at 6 years old and continue until you're 12 years old. And you would continue to go to high school. In year 2 when I was 8 years old, that's when the school forced us all into compulsory swimming lessons. And let me tell you something, I'm surprised I didn't die out there. So basically to get to the pool from our school we had to walk through many streets in 40 degree heat. 40 degrees Celsius. This is how much it is in Fahrenheit and this is what we all looked like. Anyway, the main rule was to never walk in front of the teacher. What are you doing? Arriving to the pool there were two types of entries. One was the season pass line. These were the types of people that were really good swimmers and would go there all the time. They would just prance on in like, yep, I don't need a pay. And because of this they were the first ones to get into the change rooms and get into the pool straight away. Well on the other hand, there was a second gate where you had to line up and pay cash to get into the pool. This line was always filled with kids trying to find money everywhere and bags, pockets, the ground, just trying to scrape up enough money to try and get in. I was one of those kids. So after finally getting into the pool we walked into the change rooms while the season passed people walk out. And things start to get a bit weird. From what I remember of the change rooms, girls ran everywhere for some weird reason. And there was a lot of, do you like my swimmers? And ill-hoot undies of those! Eww! Eww! Eww! Eww! Eww, that's so gross. Eww. Hahaha. In the first session they would allocate you in swimming groups based on your swimming abilities. The groups were arranged from group 1 to group 4. Group 1 being the lowest group where kids can belly float and the group 4 kids, the season passed. There's no point really covering the test as it was pretty boring, but anyway, I got put into group 4. Me. Someone who can belly swim. Group 4! All emotions were flipped once we walked 50 minutes to the deep end. Prior to this, I'd never been to the deep end before, so I was a little daunting. So the instructor gave us an option of diving off the blocks into the water or just going from the ground. I chose the ground because what, what else am I going to do in this situation? I just started diving one by one and then it was my turn. I was sitting on the edge of the pavement with my arms out ready to dive. I had no idea what I was doing. My body hits the water with a huge slap and my goggles just filled up with water. As soon as I hit the water, I realized what was happening. I splashed everywhere around trying to get to the surface and I immediately went to the wall. You alright? I can't swim help! I can't swim! I promise! Next we had to swim a whole lap in freestyle and that turned out to be more embarrassing. Ready, set, go! The sad thing was that the instructor didn't stop me or anything. He just encouraged me to keep going. This didn't help me at all because I still had the fear of drowning. I'm doing great. So close. Yeah. Good job. Keep it up. You're doing good. Yep. Swim. Almost there. Great work. Keep it up. I'm f**king hot. Congrats. So I managed to finish the whole lap which was pretty surprising but by the end of it my muscles were aching so much. I just wasn't cut out for it. I wouldn't have lost so much longer out there. Everyone you did great except just. Can I talk to you for a minute just? Look you're a really great swimmer and all but I think you would be better in group 3. All won. To be honest I kind of expected this talk from the instructor because he literally saw me like half drowning twice. I didn't mind though because I got to spend like half an hour with the elite squad. When I really shouldn't have been the let's be honest. Don't get me wrong Ashley really likes swimming but I'm just really not good at it. Whenever I do go into water these days you will most likely see me doing the doggie paddle at some point. Not always. Just sometimes. 90% of the time. Here's a random fact to leave on. One of my friends saw a diaper at the bottom of the pool and it still had poo in it. Thank you guys so much for watching my first ever proper video on this channel. I hope you guys liked it and don't forget to follow me on Twitter and subscribe to the YouTube channel.