I miss having the opportunity to swim regularly. I have been swimming since I was 3 years old. Like many of you, I have a mother who never learned to swim and is terrified of water, so it was ultra important to her to have us be good swimmers. She knew she would never be able to save us, herself.
I started swimming competitively when I was 4 years old on the YMCA year round swim team and kept doing it up until high school. I think I took every Red Cross swimming course there was (there were tons of levels, named after fish) and many times I was the only one in the class. I got my Red Cross lifesaving and water safety instruction certification and life guarded one summer and taught swimming lessons from infants to adults. It was great fun, but it was at an indoor pool. Yuck! My friends were getting tan, life guarding at the country club and I was at the YMCA. LOL! I taught swimming lessons one more time right after I graduated from college, part time, in the late afternoons when I got off of work. That was at a YMCA too.

Genny, there are adult swimming classes available at the YMCA, YWCA and country recreation facilities. You should learn in the environment that is most comfortable to you. I wish you were in SC and I would teach you myself!