I have a dream

It's been over 20 years that they say that we'll get a new pool. After 20 years, the coaches are still waiting to see some progression. SMU has a really good men and women swimming and diving team. Both teams placed top 15 at NCAA and are ranked high. Why don't they get that new pool? I wish I had a picture of the football or basketball locker room and compare it with ours. Every day, people pass the pool and don't really realize how hard the athletes practice and in what kind of conditions.

I had to take 3 semesters of ESL. I still remembered one of the assignments I had to make. We were talking about Martin Luther King and how popular his speech is. Our professor asked us if we could create a speech, similar to MLK's, but in a goal that we have.

The first thing that crossed my mind was a new pool, so I wrote a speech about the new pool we're waiting for.

I enclosed a part of the speech that I created by myself. I hope you'll enjoy it!

SMU swimming and diving have a dream ---> a new pool!


I say to you today, my friends, so even though the world faces with many difficulties of hunger and poverty, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the SMU swimming and diving team’s dream.
I have a dream that one day sponsors will come and help them build a new pool.
I have a dream that one day the money will not go to the popular sports but that each sport will be treated equally.
I have a dream that one day one of us will win the lottery and spend the money for the new pool.
I have a dream that my teammates will one day swim in the new pool and that they will get respect for all their hard work.

I have a dream that one day the pool will be filled with fresh water, and we can make the first dive in the pool without slipping of the blocks, and that the showers will have enough warm water.

This will be the day when we will be swimming with a new meaning.

Our pool it is we see
The water, our sanctuary
To all thee
Lanes where we have swum
Lanes where we have won
Every starting gun sets us free.