One last Physical Education class for freshman year… and hopefully the last one I have to do in High School, since I’ll just make the remainder of my PE credits with swim.
This class is pretty much the exact same as last time, but this time with a few slight differences. First off, we don’t have the health classes that we had to deal with back in ENS 2. It’s just playing a sport every day. The class also became way less physically demanding, and most days I was just standing around kind of doing nothing (they didn’t make us do much). We walked the track a lot more, which was fine with me because then I could just talk to people I knew.
The sport we had for each day of the week also changed- our sports included volley tennis and more swim, as well as a mix of other things as well. They also gave us options to just walk the track, which was really popular with me and my group.
Another notable difference was that we had a day of weight lifting each week, which was something that happened extremely rarely last time. There wasn’t much difficulty there either, because the weights were really easy and most kids had no skill- you could pretty much get all points as long as you had some physical ability. Even me out of all people was near the top of the class in Physical ability, which is a title I’m not really built for. I don’t even weight a hundred pounds, and I couldn’t bench the bar until a few months ago.
Luckily for us, the swim wasn’t oriented around water polo (Yes!!!!) but it was instead oriented around dives and flip turns. For people like me, this was no problem, because I already swam on a near-daily basis anyway and this was just routine for me and the few others who were made of swim team material.
I honestly have very little to say about this class simply because there’s very few differences between it and ENS 1 and 2. You don’t need me to explain to tell you that it’s really easy – if you can even do the motion for curling in this class, they’ll give you an A+. So… one more class left: Honors English 2, and we will finally be finished with all the Course Review classes for my Freshman year of High School!
Cody Nguyen