Personal Narrative: Struggle To Survive-Amazon River

Rugged River Rapids In the rugged river rapids, The salmon slowly swim. Four years in the ocean,

Wow! When we ride around on dirt roads every weekend, we always see people with nice and exciting fourwheelers or golfcarts going to the sand pit.Sometimes people will take their fourwheeler to the sand pit in Axson, even a new fourwheeler.They will go in deep water with it. If I had one I would not go in water with it, at first anyway.But in Axson now, there is water over the roads, because the Satilla River is out of the banks.The water is so much out of the banks, you can not go under the bridge at Axson.

My journey all started in the car. It was the last day of school, sunny and just a good day. We were listening to the radio and jamming out to the famous song “Schools Out.” As the song started to die down we dropped off Olivia, my little sister at school. Now it was time to take on the last day of school. As we were driving to my school, the radio man came on. He said “Be caller number 9 and you could win 4 tickets now for a trip to the Amazon Rainforest!!” We usually never call and try because we know that we would most likely not get it but for some reason my mom decides to call as soon as I'm getting out of the car. I ask her, “Why are you signing up?” She replies with “You never know until you try right?”

In my school I am part of a community service group called start something, we help people in our community who are not as fortunate, or help clean in our community to keep our city beautiful. My first community service event was the Spicket River cleanup, the Spicket River is a small river that goes through Lawrence. The river goes through many parts of Lawrence, some people’s trash ends up in the river,[every year I look forward to this event to help the environment and my community] this is why every year I look forward to participating in The Spicket River Cleanup.

I still hear his voice. I didn’t move. I was so scared. I was scared of falling, of drowning in the water below. I didn’t want to die.

His friend Brian had just gone to get some water from the river. He was worried greatly for his friend, but he had been burned badly while hot ash and wind whipped him against the ground. He started walking slowly in the direction he thought the river was to find his friend. Charles heard a faint sound in the distance. He walked over more fallen trees towards where he thought he heard it coming from. He started hearing the rivers loud crashing and walked to see that the rivers were no longer clear and blue, but they were filled with trees and filled with muddy water. They also were flooded by trees filling the river and raising the water level along with extra melting from the Mountain. He heard the cry for help louder and kept walking to the sound. He found the source. It was Brian mangled in between two trees that hit each other. His face was dripping streams of blood, created from mixing with tears that he was

James continued slowly, unable to see anything until a sudden bright spark of light ripped a hole into the dark abyss. Abruptly his nostrils flared up with the horrific stench of rotten meat. Peering through the bushes he saw an ancient creature, standing at ten feet tall with a green armoured body, around a campfire with an intimidating posture. James crouched behind the dense bush mesmerised at the magnificent beast. Without warning the beast charged towards James. His chest thumped ferociously, and sweat draping of his skin. Startled at the monster, he sprang up, yet he was unable to run away from the monstrous

Jon abruptly came to a conclusion: I must be under the city of San Francisco. He had head stories of the great underside of the city, but no one was said to be allowed in, save construction teams and guards. Jon theorized that he must have floated down the Sacramento river after his helicopter crashed. They were near the river when he had blacked out. Or Jon was dead, but he was just ignoring that possibility for the time being. Jon looked again at the columns reaching up into the base of the city. He had to get out of here. Jon moved towards the nearest column and began to inspect it. At the base of the column, four support legs stretched out, stabilizing the contraption. Examining the column more, Jon noticed a ladder that stretched up into

A big smile breaks out on my face. Big red is what I call the big red outrigger canoe we own. I kiss dad on the cheek and rush out of the study. Big Red was were mom and me would spend our hours. Exploring the island together was my favorite pastime. Now that's she's gone I still go out almost everyday to feel close to her. I clutch the seashell necklace pendant she game me right before she passed away, sighing I tuck it into my shirt. As I climb on the canoe I push the big vessel out away from the dock so I can put up the sail. Big Red glides effortlessly through the crystal clear water. Looking down u can see all the exotic fish and corals of all different colors. I could live in this moment forever. I see some dark clouds in the corner of my and my heart stops. I quickly turn to the direction of the darkened sky and realize if I don't get home I'm going to be caught in a big storm. With all the effort I could muster I turn the rudder all the way to the right. The wind started hitting my face harder and the water became choppy. Struggling to keep the canoe afloat I saw an island in the distance. There's no way I making it home in this weather. CRACK! The mast snaps in half and falls right toward me. I watch it fall right next to me causing the wing of the boat to break off. I feel my body thrown into the air and hit the water, hard. Completely submerged in water I struggle to

According to the instructor, the river was supposed to be no more than three feet deep, yet her head was out of our sight. We were very alarmed, so we swam furiously as quickly as we could to where she was. After a few minutes of struggling to get away from the rocky areas we managed to get her tube back and threw it to her. As we were recovering from the incident and getting back into completing our activity, I felt something thick and slimy wrapped along my leg which caused me to start panicking once again. It took me a few seconds to realize that it was just a cluster of plants and twigs. After the alarming incident, I was extremely shaken but thought that nothing bad could happen again. I was wrong. I then noticed that the aftermath of the collision resulted in a small opening in my tube, which allowed the air to begin flowing out. I got stuck and could no longer move away in the water without sinking. As I had discovered earlier, the water was quite deep. I once again felt worried and so many thoughts were rushing through my mind. My friends tried helping me but the currents dragged them away, further down the

They must’ve followed me here. I can’t let Nick hurt them too. I start walking in the direction of the yelling until I come out of the trees. He sees me now. I yell for him to leave her alone and it does the trick. He throws Molly off to the side and starts coming after me. I run in the opposite direction but he catches up to me, or maybe I let him. He pushes me around, throwing punches and knocking me to the ground. I am surrounded by NIck and his friends. He picks up a stick and swings it at my head. I duck and push against Gordon. He goes over the edge and a loud crack and then a splash is heard. He must have hit the platform and fell into the water. This angers Nick even more and he smashes the branch against the back of my head. For a moment everything goes black and then I am on the ground. I try to get up but Nick shoves me. I lose my balance for a moment but get back up, grabbing a rock in the process. I take the rock in my hand and smash it against Matt's head. The sound was deafening. He let out a shriek as it cracked his skull and he hit the ground. That was the last straw. Nick ran at me from behind. His momentum carried the both of us into the dark waters below. As soon as I hit the water I start flailing my limbs desperately trying to get away from Nick. This is bad, I can not swim. I never thought I would go out drowning. My body is getting weaker and my movements are slowing until I am no longer moving. Nick splashes behind me and is quickly getting closer. Everything goes quiet before I am pushed into the chilly water. I struggle against the hands holding me under but it is to no avail. I am so tired. I need air, I can feel my head pounding. The urge to inhale to getting harder to fight by the second. It is all going dark. I give in and inhale the dark water, Then it all

Eager and hopeful, I rushed to put it around my chest and braced for my last shot of survival. With all their strength, they tugged on the rope, moving me inch by inch out of the treacherous waters and onto dry land. Trying to find my footing, I hobbled back to the four-wheeler bundling in all of the clothing I could acquire. I was rushed back to the camp where a warm shower was waiting for me. It took at least 10 minutes idling in the steaming water to finally regain feeling in my toes and fingers as they tingled when the warm water hit them. Realizing that I was going to be okay, I jumped out the shower to put on dry clothes to go express my gratitude to my friends for saving

My parents and I were on a beautiful vacation to French guyana in the rainforest we were camping there for a week. We decided to go and investigate the rainforest for fun. Then we saw a waterfall. As i was imaging the beautiful waterfall I tripped . I realize that I tripped over a decaying tree. I saw an amazing beetle. I had to get a closer look so I went closer . Then I picked up the amazing Beetle. I realized I studied it before we came on this trip. Suddenly I felt that meat sounded nasty. Then ,my mom said that we are having steak for dinner. I usually say “ That sounds great.” But this time I yelled “NO!”.

The boat sped up, and swiftly it drifted toward a dark, narrow tunnel. A nervous twitch ran through my body. I felt more comfortable being out in the wide open expanse, but in the tunnel, I couldn't anticipate what would lie ahead. I gripped the flashlight and shined it out in front of us as we immersed in the darkness. My breathing turned heavy. It was just as dark as the tunnel we had come through, only now I felt more vulnerable, having no control over the water’s current.

It was a long time ago. I was hoping it would never have happened again. I should have when we went into the water. It was as big as the submarine that we were in. It was probably even bigger then our submarine.Gulp is the sound my throat made when I swallowed my water. I was really thirsty from the night. I do not know why yet but it got super hot in my little cubie. I fell off my bed with a loud thud. That is what awoke me. That is when it happened I realized that the ship was sinking. That is when I knew there was no hope for me. I gave up with hope that someday someone will carry on my legacy with catching the beast.