A Green Bracelet

Today was the first swim day for 1st-6th graders at Madeline's Summer Fun camp. They go to the local Y every Thursday for swimming. Each child that says they can swim has to prove it to the lifeguards by taking a swim test (jumping into the deep end and swimming to the ladder without a floatie). Madeline stood in line to take the test last year but backed out at the last min. The kids who pass the swim test get to wear green bracelets and have free reign over where they swim (deep or shallow) but kids who don't pass or don't want to take the test wear a red bracelet, a floatie and have to stay in the shallow end.
Madeline took swim lessons last summer and was able to swim from the shallow end to the deep end with no floatie so I felt sure she could pass the swim test. She decided that she wanted to try again this year and mustered up the courage today. On the way to camp she was starting to back out, I told her it was up to her and reminded her that she had already done a little swimming last year without a floatie in swim lessons.
When I picked her up today she said she took the swim test and passed!! She was awarded the coveted green bracelet! Then she told me that after she put on the green bracelet and got back in the pool she decided she wanted to go back to red after all, switched out the bracelets, put on a floatie and got back in the pool! ha ha ha ha