First Day of Swimming Lessons

Here are the kids right before swim lessons started. They were quite excited. Their teacher speaks little English yet somehow the kids understand him. They call him "Mike". I am unsure of his real name.

The kids both learned very quickly and were comfortable in the Olympic size pool in no time. Maya loved hanging on the ladder and bobbing her head in and out of the water. She would come up wiping the hair out of her face and laughing each time!
Jacob immediately trusted Mike and was more than willing to head into the deep waters of the pool. By deep, I mean about 5 feet.