Just keep swimming: my life in a nutshell

"Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall."
- Ray Bradbury

Wow, where should I start? Every time I write on my blog, I spill out all my guts (Maybe, not literally, but you get the picture). As I have said time and again, I grew up in a musical family. We are just as excited about music as we are about swimming.

 I've been swimming since I could crawl! Luckily, I was homeschooled so I was free to swim as much as I wanted. My parents decided early on to put all of us kids in a swim club called NOVA. Back then, swimming was all I knew because I was there every day from 3pm to 8pm monday through friday! Crazy, huh? Now that I look back, I didn't really care too much about competition. I distinctly remember playing cards with my friends at Junior Olympics before my heat was up. Unfortunately, I totally missed my heat and my coach was mad! I was having so much fun already that I forgot about my race and I wasn't even worried about it at all. Swimming is and always will be my favorite sport! I am not sure I'll ever go to competitive swimming again myself, but I'll cherish those moments forever. 

Butterfly is my best stroke. This might explain why I have gnarly muscular legs on my tiny body. If you've ever met me, you already know! I'm definitely not ashamed of my muscular legs, and I'd go as far to say that I'm proud of them even if that makes me cocky. God gave me a height of 5 ft 1.5 in and it's amazing how much I can do with all he has given me. I used to think of my short height as a bad thing and wanted to be taller. Then I realized there's no greater gift than the body God gave you and he has such an amazing plan that you cannot even fathom.

To all the athletes like me, remember that you are blessed to have a sport that you played and your parents were probably the reason you were able to become an athlete in the first place. Thank God I was given the amazing opportunity to be a part of a swim club team like NOVA with my siblings. I'll always remember the early mornings as a blessing because I wake up at 5:30 am automatically now.

Once a swimmer, always a swimmer

Rachel

Fly on: Forever is better with you ~Humming House

"Fly on, fly on, just we always do, fly on, fly on, forever is better with you!" -Humming House

Just a couple months, I discovered this amazing group of musicians. I love their sound and diverse tracks! Makes me realize how much genre is good, but there's so much room to expand out of the zone of normal. Hence the fact that I love music!

When I was in 6th grade, I wasn't really doing much besides school and I had quit swimming because my allergies were getting the best of me. Then my mom brought up the idea to join Choir! My first thought was.. "ugh, are you serious?" Most of you know that I was homeschooled, I'm sure. When you think of homeschoolers, your first instinct is the same one I get when I had never been in choir. Ya, I thought of nerdy kids who cared only about academic civility. It's so rude, I know. But I had NO idea how awesome it'd be!

Flashback to freshman year in college, I was in my eighth year of choir! DUDE. That's a long time!