Ahh!!! D:

I’m never going to forget the day when I did something I would never thought of doing in my life. Almost two years ago I went the strawberry festival with my best friend Cindy and her step dad. I remember that day being very sunny and seeing a lot of people there. As we were walking around the festival we got to the area where there were rides and activities you can do, one thing that cached my attention was the bungee jump. I stood there for a good while watching other people jump, and thinking how brave all those people were. I dislike height very much since the day when I went to Santa Monica pier when I was about 10 years old. My dad told me and my brother Fernando if we wanted to get on the boat ride, when I saw it I didn’t think it was a scary ride; until I got in the boat. It started of slow rocking back and forth and little by little the boat started going higher and I remembered getting the most awful feeling in my stomach that I started crying and yelling that I wanted to get off. So the guy who was in charge of the ride stopped it, I quickly got off and ran to my mom crying my eyes out. Since then im terrified of rides and height. So watching people bungee jump made me get that awful feeling in my stomach again.

            As I was standing next to Cindy her step dad asked her if she wanted to bungee jump she said “yes” at the time she was a few weeks pregnant I remember telling her that she couldn’t jump because of that. But then she told me nothing was going to happen since she was only a few weeks pregnant, so I went along with it saying that’s true; when her step dad paid for her they started getting her ready to jump. As I saw her going up and up I started to get nervous and scared for her, next thing I hear is one of her friends yelling at her saying “what are you doing!? Are you crazy?!” Cindy say’s “why?” her friend says “you can’t jump! Something can happen to your baby! You better get off!!” So Cindy did and I was relieved she did too, when she got down her step dad asked her why she got off but she simply said “I was scared”. So now her step dad asked one of the guys if he can get his money back but he said “no” and then her step dad asks me “do you want to jump?” I said no thanks! I’m way to scared, he says “aw its okay then” but then I thought to myself those $40 are going down the drain I should just do it. So I said okay I’ll jump. Cindy tells me “oh my goodness Itzel are you sure?!” and I said yeah let’s do this! As I started getting ready to jump the crain started going higher and higher everybody started getting smaller and I of course started getting scared because it was so high up. The guy starts giving me instructions and then he says “on count at 3 let go and jump” I say okay. He says “one..two…”I yell out wait!wait! im not ready im so scared what if the rope breaks or I hit myself or something!? He responds “don’t worry nothing is going to happen, just jump and you’ll get over it” I say no!no! can’t you lower it down a little it’s to high up! Of course he laughs saying “no”. Literally after being up there for about 15 minutes I can hear the crowd on the bottom yelling “jump!jump!” and the guy started telling me “if your not going to jump we have to go down already” I tell him no! ill jump just give me a minute. He say’s “no!” you’ve been up here for to long you have to jump” when I started to walk little by little to the edge I put my hands back and grabbed myself from two handles and I leaned forward the guy starts to count “1..2…” I yell out WAIT!! And he says “no more waiting” and he started to lift up my fingers from my right hand so I could let go but I wouldn’t let him and I don’t remember what I got distracted with and I let go of the handles as soon as I did that the guy pushed me and I remember when I was falling I was trying to get back up which it was impossible to do. I felt that I made the most hilarious face expressions and getting a lot of butterflies in my stomach as I was falling. When it was all over my legs were shaking and the guy who pushed me tells me “I told you it wasn’t going to be bad” I respond by saying shut up!. After I got off I was I couldn’t believe I actually bungee jumped and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, and those $40 didn’t go to waste and Cindy didn’t get to jump so it was good.

            Now that I look back I’m glad I jumped because I got over my fear of getting on roller coasters and any other ride. Now I tell myself if I can bungee jump I can do anything, because not a lot of people have courage to jump. Now I love the adrenaline when ever I do something crazy. I love going to six flags magic mountain and getting on all the roller coasters, my favorite one is “goliath” I love that drop in the beginning of the ride. Next thing I want to do is jump out of a plane it looks like so much fun and I know ill have a good experience doing it.