Personal Narrative: Dropping In

I was standing in line with my sister and cousin waiting to get on the “Viper”. We were at Six Flags having already been in the long line an hour and a half. We all went on our favorite rides, then we decided to go on the roller-coaster. This was going to be my very first ever roller-coaster in my life. Then the roller coaster conductor told us to get on the coaster. I jumped in, put my seatbelt on and listened to the safety precautions. Then the conductor pressed the button and we were off.

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As Ralph Waldo Emerson once added “What you are afraid to do, is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do.” As we were pulling into the parking lot of Hersheypark, I looked up and saw a gigantic coaster, the tallest upside down coaster in the whole entire park. Before we took our trip we did research on the best rides at the park, Fahrenheit was one of the tallest coasters with a 97 degree drop and 60 mph during the ride. I was only 10 at the time and I had never gone on an upside down roller coaster before. As we were entering the park, the rollercoaster was to the left of the entrance. I was hoping we would be able to go to the other side first so I could avoid the coaster for a little while. Just my luck, we turned to the left,

The first thing we did was the tilt jump to the front and then the tilt jump with our left leg tucked across the floor. For me that was easy since we have been practicing the tilt for almost a week already. After the tilt across the floor Ms. Gee added more steps such as the , retire position , and small altitude jump. The first three times I got confused on the arm placement, but after that I stay for a minute after class and got the order of the steps.

My stomach twisted and scrunched up into knots after gazing up at the structure. The dreaded day had finally come: the day that I would conquer the high ropes course at summer camp. As a fourteen-year old girl who was frightened by heights of any kind, strapping on a harness and climbing up a bunch of shaky poles and shivering wires was definitely the last thing I wanted to do. Nonetheless, peer pressure got the best of me, so in order to satisfy my friends and to avoid being teased, I made the decision that I would climb up the ropes course no matter how much the voice in my head screamed at me to stop.

When we first got on I had a physically pain in the pitt of my stomach, the real realization that you are in the predicament that you're in is on the edge of the first hill going down, it's at the time that the ride goes down at speeds unfathomable to you at the moment that your heart skips a beat and when you go up the first loop you feel that the G-force is going to rip your spine out. But when the ride is done you feel like you have just been injected with pure adrenalin right into your heart, you need more excitement to quench the thirst of excitement. Well after the demon and I craved for more thrill, well more thrill is what I got, after the demon Tyler told me the only way to get used to something new is to get right into it, so after the demon we went straight to X-flight one of the biggest rides there and my eager turned into dread as I saw the monumental ride and my heart sank deep inside. But I prevailed and we went on a a few more rides, but after a while we had all decided to take a rest to enjoy the fine

At this point, the course continued and the next obstacle was a sandbag carry that looped a short distance and then racers crossed over a small walker’s bridge over water and all I kept thinking was I wanted to jump off the small bridge an into the water/river, but that wasn’t allowed so I couldn’t. The course continued on another walking path and had several more ladder wall climbs and two inverted ladder wall climb obstacles and then made eventually making its way back towards Icahn Stadium. Other obstacles included two Cargo Net climbs, a Bear Crawl, Monkey Bars, and a Water Jug Carry and then it came time to re-enter Icahn Stadium and snake from the bottom to the top of the stairs cases in the stadium, finally coming to a Heavy Rope Jump and then just one more series

One summer, the Lane family planned to go to Six Flags. I was probably in third grade. We were (or at least I was) absolutely ecstatic! I love roller coasters with all my heart! The rush and the drops that turn your stomach into jelly are simply breathtaking! When you go to Six Flags over Georgia, or any other amusement park, your goal should be to get to the gate as early as possible in order to get to the best rides before anyone else does. The experience is even better if you can ride the best one multiple times. My unofficial job as a Lane family roller coaster fanatic is to set up the schedule for the day, especially because I am the youngest in the family. Our first priority was the Goliath. All that came between us and the main event was one hill and a left turn. As we headed down the path to our destination, I couldn’t help but think about how much FUN we were about to have. It was about 10 am. The crowds will start filling the empty gaps in the park at any time now. I became truly excited when I began to think about the rush I might get when gliding down the first enormous drop. I couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that someone thought up the idea of having entertainment you can ride that’s bigger than the eye can see. Suddenly, my

What made it so hard was that the person was climbing up a wheel with stairs, instead of walking. The reason for this was to punish prisoners in a long, strenuous climb going nowhere, which was much harder than walking. What made the treadmill difficult was because of the space between each step (3 feet) and how much they had to “climb”, which was 12,000 feet (Higgs, 1018). Most prisoners would walk on it for hours on end, with minimal breaks. Because of this, many prisoners did anything to avoid it, ranging from purposely

All of us ended up arguing about it how we would go down it all together or one at time? Eventually we decided that we would all go at one at a time we jokingly said just in case one of almost dies we can get to them a lot quicker. My friend Josh goes first he made it all the way down and gave me the okay signal that i could go now. When i started making my way down it felt amazing the wind blowing in my air,how everything passed by me in a blur and that feeling of adrenaline, i honestly believed i could do anything well i was wrong. My Longboard started to wobble and i immediately panicked, I was going to fast to slow myself down. so i tried to jump into a grassy area, but that did not work out the way i planned considering i slammed into a brick mailbox Going easily past 21 mph. i don’t remember much about what happened afterwards. I remember being winded i could hardly breath and i couldn’t move i saw blood coming down from the side of my head going onto the concrete floor. The last thing i saw was my friend Noah running from the top of the hill towards me and my vision turning into a blurry

The course continued on and after a brief sprint was a ladder wall climb obstacle. The course now back on pavement continued on and the next obstacle up was what I considered the hardest obstacle on the course, it was a two high walls that had heavy duty rope nets attached to the top and suspended across the top of the walls. Racers had to grab the rope and use that to climb up on to the suspended ropes and then traverse across the suspended rope net and then climb back down. This was a challenge obstacle and I saw a fair amount of racers skip it on both of my laps.

I knew it didn’t go upside down so I thought this one wouldn’t be a problem for me. In my heart, I really wanted to do this ride, but the longer I stood in line and the closer we got to the front, the more nervous I became, once again. This seems to be an ongoing theme of the week for me. How nervous can I get? When we got to the very front, I made the mistake of asking the ride attendant, “What is the longest drop?” The attendant said, “13 stories.” It wasn’t lost on me the number 13. He also stated, “The fastest speed is about 30 mph,” That was it for me, I bailed, I chickened out, I was defeated. When Lisa and Ian were done, Ian said, “It really wasn’t that bad, you should have done the ride.” I felt bad that I chickened out and said, “If you want to ride it again, I promise I will go on it with you.” Ian didn’t want to ride it a second time. I really wish I had gone on this ride because it has been torn down

As the amusement park opened on a late May morning, the noisy school bus pulled into the Valley Fair parking lot. My group of friends and I exited the bus and crowded into the theme park. We heard the excited squeals from children eating ice cream as well as the eardrum-grating screams from people on the ride closest to us. My friends and I enter the line for my first roller coaster ride. The expression of reluctance was written clearly across my face. I did not want to ride this beast. My friends tried to egg me on. “Just ride the roller coaster!” they all shouted. “You’ll be fine! Nothing bad will happen.” I am surrounded by voices that do not stop until I unwillingly get on the High Roller. My fear of roller coasters is not as simple as one may think between the speeding unsafe death-traps and tunnels of doom that makes them terrifying.

“Take your cousins with you too, it’ll be fun.” So I did. These hills in her backyard were huge, it almost looked like a golf course. It could be fun if I rode down them with the pedal to the medle. I'm telling you that these hills were steep. If you go down them and hit a bump you will go flying out of the golf cart. So being the daredevil the that I am I asked

It started out easy, not really falling, just losing my balance as I leaned from side to side with the training wheels just off the ground. As they continued to rise, I noticed