Swimming in the big pool

Since the start of Term 2, Abigail has been having her swim lesson in the olympic sized pool. It is a real step up for her, a challenge. The water is much colder and she cannot touch the bottom. The children rest on stands placed by the instructors, but the distance between them is further than the width of the old lesson pool. Abigail doesn't have an instructor following her each time she does a torpedo etc, instead she must make the distance between stands on her own. As she has just started to swim this way, she doesn't have the stamina to make it all the way. Today Priscilla observed that Abigail swims close to the lane ropes and uses them for reassurance/resting during her swimming. Not that she stops, rather it's a small rest and check for her direction of travel esp during back torpedoes. She is also learning to breathe while doing freestyle, hands resting on the instructor's shoulders. Takes about 2 seconds for each breath.

Her instructor Jonathan is a young man late teens-early 20s, pimply, and gentle. Unfortunately he has been gripped by the curse of fashion and has a brushover hairdo whereby the fringe comes over like a combover. How can one maintain one's style during swim class? This man makes a quick adjustment to his hair each time he emerges from under the water, rather like a toupee adjustment, to give his hair the required touseled (?) look. Quite funny to watch.