[House] Recap (was Re: Swim lessons.)

RJ Johnson rmjwell at gmail.com
Mon May 14 18:35:45 PDT 2012


I like Herbst because of the water temperature that folks are
reporting on and the socializing (the singing sounds delightful) and
supporting their disability-assistance mission as well as having our
girls socialize differently-abled folks right from the start.

But I thought the Herbst was weekDAYS only?

RJ

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 02:34:33PM -0700, J Davis wrote:
>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Robin Lee Powell
>> <rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
>> > Hey, good idea!
>> >
>> > There appear to be 3 other major options: Giammona pool in Daly
>> > City, which gets very mixed reviews and they seem to get worse
>> > the younger the kid is,
>>
>>
>> FWIW, I used to do PT at Giammona. It was cold but otherwise ok as
>> far as my PT was concerned.
>
> The complaints I'm seeing about the small-child classes are that
> the kids get virtually no teacher time.
>
> OTOH, now that I think about it, that's not terribly relevant for us
> anyways since one of us would be helping each child anyways.  I'm
> perfectly capable of teaching most swimming skills once the "Wait,
> you can put a 6 month old in the water?  *HOW*?" part is dealt with,
> so actually it'd probably be fine.
>
> They have Saturday sessions, half hour each, at 10:00 and 10:45,
> $66/kid (since we're not daly city residents).  Session starts 30
> Jun 2012, ends 18 Aug 2012.
>
> Despite being outside the city, the drive is trivial; certainly
> better than Garfield.
>
> So, our options:
>
> 1.  We can use the Balboa waiting list as a "this would be the best"
> option, but honestly I wouldn't hold your breath at all with 8 slots
> per class.
>
> 2.  Garfield (crappy drive).
>
> 3.  Giammona (Daly City, maybe weak on the instructor quality).
>
> 4.  Herbst (weekends only).
>
> #3 and #4 seem best to me.
>
> -Robin
>
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