Waterloo

"Hearing him explain it made swimming as easy as baking a Betty Crocker cake from a mix. You just add water and there you go."
This simile put a nice picture in my head. The author did a great job of having you feel what it was like for Kazem to teach you how to swim. It seams like a modern version of "easy as pie", "easy as a Betty Crocker cake mix".

"Once we arrived, I went straight to the beach. I took a few steps into the water, where a gentle wave lifted me and I started to swim. Simple as that."
I feel that her journey to learn how to swim is similar to Sundara's journey to adapting to culture. In the beginning it was very hard and scary, and her aunt made it harder, but in the end she discovered how to do it on her own.