As I spent summer

     After lessons we went with children to bathe.  The river, the benefit is nearby more right the channel, wide, as the river.  Derzhavin dug through – in the stay at us the governor.  Cna the channel – here it, the man-made river directly at the city proceeds in the distance, and.  Studenets in the center of Tambov was in old times the deep small river, and now only a weak streamlet, but, judging by the remained flood plain, nice there was a river, one name tells a lot of things.  Our school in a place for me special, about the area where the eternal flame and the earth from hero towns burns.

On the one hand the areas – my day nursery, opposite – the museum of local lore, now the operating temple, and at the left my kindergarten. On the contrary through the area – a recreation park where we always walked with a garden where all paths with armfuls and hills of yellow, red leaves. As we in them somersaulted as plowed legs as in them bathed! Everything-everything I remember, all heat, all paints, all smells.

Even, perhaps, and not after lessons, and we had no lesson.  I was able to swim, but not so that ахти.  Learned in a summer camp.  At first like a dog, then it is a little properly, and, of course, to dive and lie on water.  I had to cross the small river for the first time, always I dived not far from a berezhka and floated to myself little by little.  But not to lag behind schoolmates.  I float behind all, the benefit the river of all hundred meters wide, the head I lift up above that not to take water.  Generally, the herring in the small river would sweep with laughter.

On the middle of the river I understand that I can't reach hands water, and it is necessary to float, children to catch up;  I wave hands, and neither backwards, nor forward.  Situation.  Well, I shouted "I sink!  " Breath was restored and everything was restored!  I on water also float.  Children understood nothing.  Thought – a joke.  We reached the coast, played on sand, sunbathed.  Back I with all didn't float, passed on the bridge nearby.

We put on and went to school. A little I puzzled schoolmates when decided to return on the bridge, but everything was quickly forgotten as an unclear fleeting case – thought that I simply joked. And I didn't begin to tell. Yes all also you won't tell. In any case, not at once.

And still speak about Tambov – that There God