My Adventure Experience

From the beginning I have always been obsessed with taking adventures. I could either be meeting new people or having a thrilling feeling of a roller coaster, I valued every single one. My family has always gone to Tennessee during the summer and we stay with our family friends on a house boat. We stayed on a body of water called Norris Lake and this lake was enormous surrounded by mountains. One year we were driving the ski boat around and we came across a rope tied to a tree where you could swing out into the water. I remember it being quite high of a jump to swing out into the water and I was nervous. We all decided to swim to the rocks where you had to climb to get to the tree with the rope. This climb felt like eternity it was so high and there was a bunch of bugs swarming around. When we finally got to the top I was relieved we made it but I also was anxious about the jump. No one wanted to go first so I decided to be bold and volunteer myself, at the time I didn’t know if that was such a good idea. My heart was pounding out of my chest but I still grabbed the rope as tight as I could, wiggled my toes and then jumped. All the parents watching from the boat were cheering with excitement. When I came up from the water I had such an exhilarating sensation and nothing could beat it. I was also feeling pretty awesome because I was younger than some of the kids that refused to jump first. From there on out I realized everyone has many opportunities of adventures and we can embrace them or push them away. Taking adventures increases the open-mindedness of uncertainty. When I take my adventures it encourages my dreams and confidence to do anything. Also, there is limitless occasions to take adventures, the adventure of life never stops within age. Once I started taking adventures I begun to be more diverse. I was more open minded to variety and I learned many of factors about situations

For the majority of my life, I had been shy, even though it didn’t seem like it most of the time, I was scared to death when I met new people. I know that it sounds extremely trivial, but I feel that when you first meet someone, you’re ultimately giving them their first impression of yourself and that is a lot of pressure. It seemed almost certain that I would lead a life of being a social wallflower until March 2017, more specifically, March 28th, 2017. This day was and still is important to me because I learned how to be confident, and through my experience, it taught me something that I will hold onto forever. Prior to this day, I was an extremely introverted person and rarely went out of my way to make friends. As a volunteer at day

The mountains are a beautiful adventure. As you walk up the incline, trees overhang, animals run wild, and rivers roar. All of these are things that keep me coming back to hike. On my most recent hike, while it may have been 100 degrees back home, where I was it was a chilling 40 degrees. As we walked around ten miles up and over the mountain, I took many breaks to catch my breath and take in the majestic scenery. There are also the snow skiing vacations. While you can’t see anything besides snow and trees, the adventure of cruising down the slopes is full of adrenalin. The mountains have always signified an adventure for me. Just like the mountains, life is a beautiful adventure. I do not know yet what adventures are in store for my life, but I look forward to them. I strive to see the beauty in everything.

On November 19th, 2016, My family and I were going to Western Michigan University. We were heading off to watch the football and hockey game, my father told me it would take a few hours. Hours went flying by it felt like we were in a race car, we finally arrived hours later. We went straight to the dining area, it smelled like fresh made pasta and many more thrilling smells. As we made our way through the crowd, we found a table to sit at. Afterwards when we found a seat, we went darting off in many directions to look at all the food stations. Few minutes passed by when we all swarm like bees back to the table. We all seated and started eating, we talked about what we got for food.

As I crouch, hardly breathing, in a barrel much too small for me to be in, I wonder how on earth I got into this mess. The ancient ship creaks and rocks as a sinking feeling grows in my stomach. It was a dare by my so-called friends for me to sneak onto the museum attraction on the last day it was in town, simply to “have a little fun” and to see where the museum kept the huge boat. I was all for it – I needed some adventure in my life. Unfortunately, I seem to have stumbled on something a little bigger than a display.

There I was doing 65 mph, I was behind my dad going straight when we came to a smooth curve I pulled in my brake a tad bit letting off the gas dropping down to about 50mph when I went off the edge and at that moment fear took over me not knowing if I was going to get hurt or go on the adventure of a lifetime!

Exploring the different hiking and off-road trails makes me feel at peace and full of energy, to me it is like stepping into a whole new world, where technology and our fast-paced life does not matter, all I want to do

I have always had a taste for adventure. In year 3, I did a hike to Mt Feathertop. We were in Beechworth near Wangaratta when our cousins had come back from doing a hike to the mountain. We thought it was a good idea to do it because we had done many mini hikes and wanted a challenge. The TV character Winnie the Pooh said, “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen.” It is so powerful because when you watch Winnie the Pooh, you notice that he is a character that is all about adventuring. Stop recording.

Jawaharlal Nehru, the former prime minister of India, once said “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” (Brainy quote) In the past, I thought that adventure was this grand and rare event that is impossible to come across. As I have grown older and wiser, I have begun to think the opposite. I will never forget the time that I got lost in California because it made me realize what real adventure is, and how common it can be.

My first experience as a freshman was not the best, but it sure was one of the funniest. I was excited and wanted to share the news with my family. My mom could not contain her laughter when she heard how she drove a bike too fast around downtown with an outdated knowledge of how. Their favorite part had been when the faces of the people were contorted in fear and their bodies screamed an alert, with the intention to step aside in the hope of avoiding me on the bicycle. Her laughter was pure. She laughed without worries. I still remember the last words of that conversation we had held on the telephone in Oglethorpe Square.

Since I could walk as a toddler, I quickly learned the thrill of going new places. By the age of five, I learned how to ride my bike and the distances I could go exponentially increased. My older sister Rachel pushed my little pink bike, then, let go as I pedaled as hard as I could so I would not fall over. In middle school, I discovered the Bay Area train system, and utlized it to see my sister Rebecca. When she attended UC Berkeley, I took Caltrain to the Millbrae station, hopped on BART, then rode it across the bay. She ended up settling in the City for work. To visit, I only had to take Caltrain up to its last stop, then walk the two miles to her apartment. I would say she is the closest to me out of my whole family. Growing up as one of nine children, I was automatically born to be independant. I have five sisters, and three brothers. This had its ups and downs, but looking back, the circumstances truly shaped the person I am today.

As blood ran through my system like race fuel, as I raced around the ancient temple. The pounding of my heart upon my chest like a v8 in a stock car, meant I was running at 110%. I stared back at the temple was crumbling, I was almost to the window I could taste the humid jungle air already.I could feel my legs burning, my feet losing sensation and my lungs gasping for air. Finally, with the last of my energy I push off of the ledge and plummeted towards fate, as my life rested in God's hands as I fell 150ft into the abyss.

In my younger years, I was constantly reminded by my family, teachers and peers about the significance of spreading joy. I started to equate joy with making people smile. Inevitably, those childhood reminders and mindset helped manifest my adult aspirations. It has now become my aspiration to continuously experience joyous occasions when the beauty of genuine happiness is reflected through a confident, vivacious smile. However, growing up in Cameroon, I was not sure how this aspiration could be manifested into an actual profession. Upon moving to the United States, I had one of the most memorable experiences in an unexpected place, the dentist office; it awoke a hidden passion and desire in me. I never thought that sitting at a dentist office for over an hour would have such a great impact on my life. I never felt the stark confidence to allow joy to fully shine through my seemingly crooked smile, until my experience with Dr. Centty, the first dentist I ever encountered. She was very captivating and spoke in detail regarding brushing and maintaining a healthy smile. I was left astonished and felt a puzzling sense of joy and pride that I still feel until this day when Dr. Centty fixed my chipped tooth. It surprised me that a chipped tooth that made me self-conscious for over five years was taken care of so proficiently and gave me a reason to smile more often. Smiling may seem small, but a smile can change a person’s life. My smile changed that day and this childhood

The most incredible summer that I would never forget began on June 22, 2016. It was about 4:30 in the morning when my aunt and parents woke me up so we can catch our first flight at the Richmond International Airport. This was my first time in nine years that I could go back to China to visit my relatives and grandparents. On this trip, I was going with my Aunt Ying and my grandmother because my parents were too busy with work to take me. Unfortunately, when we arrived at the Richmond International Airport, it was too late to board our flight, so we had to be rerouted to our destination. From there, we encountered more problems. For instance, the flight to Dallas Fort Worth was too full so they had to reroute us to the Chicago O’Hare Airport. When we arrived in Chicago, we luckily had just enough time to catch our flight to Beijing, which was fifteen hours! After an extensive flight, we arrived at the Beijing Capital Airport and we realized that the aircraft we came on arrived a lot later than it was scheduled so we had no time to get to our connecting flight. However, American Airlines offered us FREE hotels to spend the night and told us that our new rerouted flight will be on Air China, which would be departing the next morning.

On the date of October 27th 2017, me and my friend Tovah were on our way to a cabin in Branson for her birthday. While we were there we went shopping at Tanger Outlets and we went to The Haunted Lost Cavern at Top Of The Rock. Now in the essay below you will read about my memorable journey with my friend Tovah.