My name is Geoffrey Glover and to start out in this, my AP Composition class, I am posting to tell you a little about myself.
I was born in the cultural heart of America, New Orleans, on June 10, 1993. Unfortunately I did not stay there long, by the time I was five my family had moved to somewhere I had never remembered being before, north. We ended up here in McFarland Wisconsin, mostly because my mom had been following her brother around the country for a while now, and this was where he had decided to settle down.
And so I began school. The first school I went to was Lapham Elementry on the East side of Madison, but seeing as we had just found a house in McFarland, I was soon enrolled in the district where I would receive my education up till leaving after my senior year, hopefully soon. Being an outgoing young child, friends were easy enough to make and I set about to live it up, as best a six year old could.
However, since most people know what school is like, I will skip that part and go straight to the extracurriculars. When I first moved to McFarland there was a small Karate dojo that I was very interested in. I asked my dad if I could take lessons and low and behold, he said yes. I immediately knew that I loved Karate. I progressed quickly through the belts and by the time I was 9 I had gotten my black belt. Unfortunately after that there wasn't much to do, and I quickly became bored.
Around that same time my current assistant swim coach, and then swim instructor, Neil Weiss, had told me that I should think about joining the swim team. That is, the sport that would eventually take up most of my free time. So I started swimming. In the beginning it went fairly well. I would go to meets and occasionally place in the top three in my age group, however as I stared getting older, relations with my club swim team coaches were beginning to worsen and around the summer before I started high school, I was seriously considering quitting. I decided to stick it out and see what high school swimming was like. This was the best choice I have ever made in my life. I loved swimming again. My then, and current coaches, Nick and Neil, were amazing. They seemed to make swimming fun and challenging at the same time. But even though I loved swimming again, I still did not consider myself a "good" swimmer. It wasn't until January of 2009 that that happened. I can still remember the exact meet that I became confident in myself, as a swimmer, again. It was Small School State in Shorewood. I had always been a decent backstroker, but had never broken the milestone for being a good backstroker. That is, to go under a minute in the 100 yard back. Until that race I had never broken the minute mark. I had always been hovering right above it with a 1:00.47 or something close to that. But that day I don't know what happened and I shattered the milestone and swam a 57 second 100 back. My coach says he can still remember the look of awe I had on my face when I saw my time. However it got even better the next year, that is last winter, when I swam under two minutes in my 200 IM and got fourth at state. And since swimming is basically my life, that pretty much brings you up to speed on where I am right now.
Geof's Fun Facts
My favorite color is purple
My favorite food is a good egg drop soup
My favorite genre of music is Alt./indie rock
My favorite book is Alice in Wonderland
I weigh 147 pounds and I am 6'2''
My favorite event in swimming is the 100 back or 200 IM
Some other sports I like are Soccer and Tennis
Also, I am a major music snob
And that's about all there is to know about me.
And that's about all there is to know about me.
