Personal Narrative: Water Skiing

I jump into the calm, cold, dark blue water anxious to water ski for the first time since last year. My family likes do many different sports and activities together and one of the many sports is water skiing. Every year me and my family go up to lake arrowhead to water ski and this year we went during the summer. It has been a year since I water skied but I was anxious to get back up on skis. My uncle driving the boat asks me if I am ready and I nervously nodded my head yes, as the boat started to pull me up the cold lake water was splashing me in my face and it almost felt like someone was slapping in my face multiple times. As through the processes of getting up on water skis you must let the boat pull you up so it can take anywhere between 10- 20 seconds, so as the boat was pulling me up, I thought to myself this is not fun at all from getting water up your nose to having to bend your knees in the right position for the longest time I thought to myself this is not worth it but after about 13 seconds that felt like 13 minuets I was water skiing and it was the best feeling in the world, just like the feeling that you can fly or do anything.
I know sometimes things in life are hard to do like, being at a new school or trying a new sport or being friends with someone you didn’t even know you could or would be friends with, so this summer I didn't only learn to water ski but i learned how to not be afraid of new things and how not to be afraid of what what life throughs at me. As soon as my hands got tired of holding on to the rope for dear life I let go and sinked down into the