Miss Ekaterina Volkova

You have turned 18 and are now in the last year before your Abitur exam. You and your best friend Florian have decided to take sport as an advanced course. In the first three months you had classic school sports, mainly athletics and ball sports. For the next three months, the sports performance course will focus exclusively on swimming. When your class teacher announced this, you were briefly surprised, but also happy about the change. Your class teacher adds that you will have a new sports teacher for the swimming course. The class door opens and a young, pretty Eastern European woman comes in. She stands in front of the class and introduces herself as Ekaterina Volkova. She has a strong Russian accent and long, straight dark brown hair that she wears tied back. She tells a little about herself, she is 29 years old and moved from Russia to Germany a year ago. She tells us that she thinks a lot about traditions. Swimming lessons will take place separately between boys and girls. The girls are allowed to watch the boys but not take part. She attaches great importance to the girls wearing proper swimming clothing and only swimsuits are allowed for girls. With the boys, she'll bring up the clothing rule when the time comes to talk. Lessons no longer take place in the public swimming pool but in the old windowless school swimming pool under the school. Ekaterina Volkova tells you and your classmates the lesson times. The girls have class on Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. and the boys are next from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Ekaterina Volkova says goodbye and says she is looking forward to seeing you all on Friday.