Personal Narrative: A Roller Coaster Ride

My hands were sweating like a waterfall. My knuckles were white from how hard I was holding on to the handle. We kept going up and up, until the ride stopped for a second. The next few seconds were terrifying. I was screaming at the top of my lungs. There were loops after loops, but then I stopped screaming. The ride was still going but I wasn’t screaming. I was enjoying the ride. The last loop came around and the ride came to a complete stop. I looked over to my friend and we both just started laughing our heads off. We rode the ride six times in a row! After that, I got on every coaster in the park. I had gotten rid of the fear. Now that I think about it, I remember the the reason I was so scared of roller coasters. When I was seven, my parents and I went to DisneyLand. We went on this huge ride named “Matterhorn bobsleds.” During the ride, these two huge monsters came out and I got really scared. But what I learned is that fear can be tolerated and can be

Then my brother, both my sisters, and parents got out of the car, and the first item I saw was advertising for the park. The advertising said “Hollywood Studios” and had a picture of a rollercoaster, and all I felt was butterflies in my stomach. The next day we woke up in the early morning to get ready so that we could arrive when the park opened. When we arrived, I could see all the rides and an enormous crowd of people swarming around trying to find the shortest line to enter the park the fastest. My sister grabbed me hastily and said “Come on, Alex, let's go get on The Rock N Roller coaster.” My parents walked with us, but they didn't ride the roller coaster, so my sister and I were the only ones from our family. As we waited in line, I felt mixed feelings shoot through my body. Then my turn came, and I slowly entered the blue seat of the ride and buckled up tightly, making sure nothing at all could get loose. On a screen the ride counted down, six, five, four, three,

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggghhhh!” Screamed the crowd of people as they plummeted down a drop on one of the most terrifying roller coasters i've ever seen. We were on vacation in Universal Studios, Hollywood, and believe me, I was not pleased. My dad always says I shouldn’t be scared of roller coasters, but I don't listen to him. I’m terrified of roller coasters, so since he knows I don’t listen to him, he let my little sister choose the ride I had to go on, which almost scared me to death.

It was extremely breezy and the air had a heavy smell of ozone. I looked down and noticed that we were extremely high up on a decaying, multicolored tower. However, the most conspicuous figure was a network of railing, which was constricted like a snake that was slithering in front of me. Fear instantly started to grow in me as I stood dumbstruck staring into the serpent. The conductor signaled at me and Dean to get on the roller coaster seat, but I wouldn’t budge one bit. Dean immediately knew what was wrong and said (as best as I can remember it), “Sherwin, you can’t let this piece of baloney scare you. Remember the riders that went on it before? Did you hear them? Yes! Those were screams of joy! We humans live for this kind of adrenaline and I feed on it! Listen, in life, you got to be daring and seize every single opportunity you have. You have to do the things other people wouldn’t even dream of doing. This is one of those opportunities! Take life by the reins and drive it!” After this speech, I was so overly pumped that I jumped into the seat excitedly to get going.

We stepped out of the station and it hit me immediately, the glorious smell of carnival style hot dogs and and the pure ecstasy of the sugary goodness that is funnel cakes. I dragged my girlfriend Lauren to the nearest stand and ordered one of each. The hot dog wasn’t the best I’d ever had, but I didn’t complain as I was hungry from the ride over. Then the funnel cake, oh man was that amazing, powdered sugar goodness over freshly fried bread, a delicacy to say the least. Suddenly the roar of a roller coaster flying by with the shrieks of the ecstatic people on the ride filled my ears. I pleaded with Lauren to ride one with me, but she wouldn’t budge, finally, she conceded to at least go on the ferris wheel with me. We bought our tickets and

I was the happiest kid in the world. Every other thought I had was about the upcoming vacation that I was going on. I could not get my mind off of it, no matter how hard I tried. The drive was extremely long, but when we got there I thought it would all be worth it. You could see the roller coasters from the road. They were way bigger than they were in the pictures, just looking at them gave me butterflies. We got through the front gates, which is when my excitement hit an all-time high. There were so many people everywhere, and the size of the roller coasters made me feel like an ant. It was so hard to believe that I was finally here, and moments away from riding my first roller coaster. The crowds were unreal, and the environment was electrifying. We looked at the map they gave us, then we decided which one to go on first. We were on our way to the Mamba, one of the fastest roller coasters in the country. I was so excited, and my adrenaline was pumping so much that I could not stay still the entire time we were in

I bet you have probably gone a roller coaster before, you know when they are pulling you up with those long clunky chains, you feel like they are going to break at any moment. Even though it only took around three minutes to get to the top of the roller coaster, it felt more like three decades.

Have you ever felt your heart beating rapidly as you rush down complicated obstacles and rides? Or felt the adrenaline rush of going down a really fast roller coaster? Well, I have and that’s the day I learned that if you believe in yourself, you are already halfway there to overcoming your fear.

Obviously, an outstanding amusement park must include adrenaline-pumping rides. There must be rides with heaps of thrilling turns that climb to astounding heights. Furthermore, an extravagant ride must include breath-taking drops, screaming turns, rapid corkscrews, gravity-defying loops, and sudden blackouts. Such features make your heart beat rapidly and add to the excitement of the day. Picture the clinkety clank of the chain pulling your very soul up to the roller coaster’s apex. Feel the cold air kissing your face as murmurs of fear and anticipation fight in your ears with the sound of your racing pulse. Now you have reached the summit. Time stands still. This

Today, my team of two, Kadeyn, Jasmine, went with me to the lowest area on this Earth, the land alongside the dead sea, and started to dig. We we dug 38 kilometers into the crust with a huge shovel contraption attached to our capsule., and as we went through, we saw huge pockets of the mineral Halite, which Jasmine kept licking for “the greater good of science”, and also saw lots of sedimentary rock which we took samples of.

On our break we walk around the park to see what they had. It was my first time volunteering in stern grove and I didn’t realize how big and dark the park is. There were carnival rides, food trucks, shows, crafts, cemetery, and haunted house. We sat down to watch people sing, dance and magic shows. Then we walk through the cemetery and went inside the haunted house. It was pretty fun because I love going to these events but I haven’t gone to one in a long time.

“ Vroom” the engine on the dirt bike roared like a lion. The white painted dirt bike with a red seat and red hand grips. I sat down on the seat as the engine rattled the frame. The silver exhaust smoked with a white wall of smoke floating in to the sky. The black treaded tires where digging into the dirt of the ground ripping up the green plush grass. My helmet squeezing and pushing my head against the padding of the helmet squishing my ears up against my head.

From this I have obviously learned that roller coasters just are not for me. Well at least not ones that are like Mr. Freeze, Batman, or Superman. Maybe I should just stick to the kiddie roller coasters and not let my friends trick me into riding one of the really big and really fast roller coasters. To who ever says “So what you’re afraid of roller coasters.” remember you were not

We were almost there. I stood around, bored. Soon after, a few more people in line got on. We would be on that roller coaster that we had been waiting an eternity for very, very soon. First, there was a problem with the ride. Just my luck right? Then, of course after waiting another full eternity for it to get fixed, we were finally about to go on that ride. I was sooo scared, but I had to do this.

One day I went to the Mall of America. That was my first time when on the scariest and biggest roller coasters.