Assignment 8 - Sarah

Fears: my foot falling asleep and never waking up, sharks, really big bugs

Annoyances: complaining, waking up late, bugs that fly into people’s faces

Accomplishments: being drum major in band, having good grades, got two people up on one wakeboard, slalom ski

Confusions: cruel treatment of other people/violence

Sorrows: homework

Dreams: travel, having a pet

Idiosyncrasies: to close the door to the laundry room before I go to sleep, wearing my watch on my shoe

Risks: jumped off a bridge at Norris Lake, high ropes course blindfolded, get air on wakeboard (want)

Beloved Possessions, Now and Then: snow globe collection-32 (then), friends and family (now)

Problems: time management, over booking myself

I love the lake. I could be out on the water 10 hours a day and never get tired of it. There’s always new things to try and to do. When I was little I learned to kneeboard, then I moved up to skiing. My dad would be in the water with me and hold me until the boat pulled me up and he would just float there while I skied off and then once I fell we would turn back and get him. After I learned to ski I upgraded to wakeboarding and then to slalom skiing.

I now have learned to do some tricks on both the wakeboard and the ski.

My new goal is to get air on the wakeboard. At first it didn’t seem complicated. Then, I started trying. I was wrong. When you’re out on the end of the rope it’s peaceful, like nothing else in the world matters, but it’s also scary because you know you could easily fall. I’ve tried and tried to get air and sometimes I’ve succeed, but as soon as I leave the edge of the water the scariest and most amazing feeling hits me. It’s like flying. I’m still working on getting decent air, but I think I’ll be able to master it next summer. Fingers crossed.