女儿因学游泳而收获了奖学金

  俗话说，种豆得豆，种瓜得瓜。可在女儿的培养上，我却种豆得瓜。

  女儿还是学前时，为了培养她强壮的体魄，我曾经给她报过游泳班，还报了两期，可每次都是乘兴而去，败兴而归。因为她实在是一见水就怕，所以，看来实在是“没有游泳细胞”，让她学游泳，真是勉为其难。于是，就中止了她的游泳学习，转而培养她的艺术细胞，让学舞蹈和钢琴。虽然在这两者的学习过程中，都遇到了困难，产生过畏难情绪，特别是练钢琴时，她曾一度用手猛捶钢琴，但由于老师的鼓励，还有她自己的天赋，最终都坚持下来了，还获过CMC全国第二名的好成绩，拿到了皇家音乐学院荣誉十级证书。之后，她的老师还要她指导几个钢琴初学者。

  后来，在她弟弟2岁以后，我们送她弟弟去熟悉水性的时候，女儿又提出想学游泳。于是一切重新开始。那个难啊，第一级前后学了7次才过，因为她死活不肯把头放到水里。为了学习跳水，老师耐心指导，大人连蒙带逼，都不起效果。她抗拒，她哭喊尖叫，最后两个教练拉起她，前后晃悠着把她扔进水里，。。。然后，她就游起来了。从此她就对游泳产生了浓厚的兴趣。周末，当她上完中文学校的课后，一个人就背着书包跑去YWCA学游泳。一级一级坚持下来，最终通过了十级，获得了救生员证，当上了游泳中心的教练和救生员。

  如今，女儿有幸成为了今年“九鼎奖学金”的获得者。在颁奖大会上，她发表了简短的演说致词。出乎意料的是：在她的致词中，她没有说如何刻苦学习取得今天的成绩，而是认为，是从游泳中学到的自强不息、坚忍不拔和刻苦耐劳的精神，才使她获得了今天的成绩，且希望把这种精神带到她今后的职业生涯中。

   天啊，女儿学业上取得的成绩，却阴差阳错地因她学游泳而得。我这不是意外大收获，种豆得瓜了吗！

附：女儿演说选断

  As a child, I was terrified of water.I refused to put my head underwater and to jump in the pool: the teachers had to pick me up and drop me inside the swimming pool.Two lifeguards picking up a screaming, 6 year old throwing a tantrum and just swinging her inside the water!Again and again, encouraged by my parents, I took the first level of swimming classes. 7 tries later, I finally passed and moved on to the next level.Little did I know that years later, I would grow to love swimming so much that I would get a lifeguard license and work as a swimming instructor. I now coach young children who, just like myself, are afraid to jump in the pool. Not only did I overcome my fear of water, but I gained the ability to help others and share my love of swimming while making a meaningful impact on others’ lives.

  I am studying law because I want to lower barriers to equal legal representation and make justice accessible to all.I am ready to bring the sense of drive, persistence, and hard-work I had in the swimming pool to my future career. I hope that in 10, 20, or 30 years, I am able to look back, just like I am looking back right now at my swimming accomplishments, and feel just as proud to have grown stronger and to have made an impact and a positive contribution to other’s lives.