Personal Narrative-Defining Moment
As soon as I sat down on the tube, I thought to myself “ I’m totally going to wipe out.” We were about 100 feet out from our campsite. Right when we started we went about twenty miles an hour and the tube jerked so hard I thought I got whiplash. We were being thrown around so much that we were almost never in the wake our boat left behind. As we flew out to the right, I put my hand up to my neck and moved it back and forth, indicating the to driver that I needed to stop. Everybody told the driver and he was about to stop but then my cousin (Sabastian) put his hands up and then it was game on from there.
The whole time that we kept going after I signaled I needed to quit, we were never in the wake, unless we were jumping it. We ended up going so far out to the side on each side, I could see the small silver decoration at the very front part of the null of the boat. As we crossed the water, I could see the sunset slowly turning the lake into a pretty orange color, and the minnows jumping up out of the water. That’s when I noticed the boat was going left and we were still leaning right from the last turn. I looked at sabastian and said …show more content…
As I looked over, I saw the maroon and white colors of our boat coming to retrieve me and Sabastian out of the lake where we crashed. I told everybody on the boat that I could barely breathe, and they helped me onto the boat. When I got onto our boat, everybody asked if I was okay because my body hitting to water sounded like a clap of thunder. That's when Sabastian got back on the tube, and then about ten minutes later, he crashed almost as bad as me but he was able to breathe. After about 30 minutes, I was able to breathe normally again. One of the things i learned was that you can never be to safe and that you always need to be prepared for
The whole time that we kept going after I signaled I needed to quit, we were never in the wake, unless we were jumping it. We ended up going so far out to the side on each side, I could see the small silver decoration at the very front part of the null of the boat. As we crossed the water, I could see the sunset slowly turning the lake into a pretty orange color, and the minnows jumping up out of the water. That’s when I noticed the boat was going left and we were still leaning right from the last turn. I looked at sabastian and said …show more content…
As I looked over, I saw the maroon and white colors of our boat coming to retrieve me and Sabastian out of the lake where we crashed. I told everybody on the boat that I could barely breathe, and they helped me onto the boat. When I got onto our boat, everybody asked if I was okay because my body hitting to water sounded like a clap of thunder. That's when Sabastian got back on the tube, and then about ten minutes later, he crashed almost as bad as me but he was able to breathe. After about 30 minutes, I was able to breathe normally again. One of the things i learned was that you can never be to safe and that you always need to be prepared for