Capsizing Courage!

           I had, had a horrible case of the shivers! I had been shaking like mad! This was during the field trip I had last year back in Jakarta. We had gone to this place called Tanjung Lasung. It was a beach (a bit dirty). So we had gone out to sea on these small motor boats with a teacher and a few other kids. Well at least I had been one of the kids on the motor boat. Some other kids had been able to get on the sail boats first. ( I had been trying NOT to get on the sail boat until I had to.)
          I was one of the shorter kids, so I had to get all bundled up in the small school life jackets that were really uncomfortable while other people got more big and comfortable ones that the "beach people" owned. There was one man on the motor boat that controlled it and made sure the "kids" each had the same amount of time as everyone else on the sailboats. You would have been just sitting and waiting for the sailboats to return. Now getting back to the real courageous adventure.
          I had jumped from the motor boat onto the sailboat as per the instructions. Now the part that really was the nightmare was that everyone had to capsize in the water at least once. My face had broken out into cold sweat as I told the "boat guy" I was ready to capsize. (I was scared about falling into the water) We shifted a few times from one side of the boat to the other so that the boat capsized. The "boat guy" told me to watch out for the boom since it would be painful if you got hit by the metal bar while it fell into the water. ( A few people actually got hit by the boom) So I was so worried about that, that I had forgotten about the sail.
          When I fell in the water, my face went under for a few seconds before I was able to get out from under the sail. Let me just get one fact straight, that water TASTE TERRIBLE!! And that water STUNG MY EYES!!    I floated (and paddled) to the back of the boat where the "boat guy" was waiting. So what we were supposed to do was jump on the center board till the boat turned back over. I'm telling you, that drains your energy real easily! The "boat guy" got back on the boat easily, but I was so exhausted from turning the boat back over that the "boat guy" had to literally pull me onto the boat.

    

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          Right after getting back on the boat, I had to jump back onto the motor boat for the next person to get onto this sailboat! After ten minutes, I went on this other sailboat. In all the sailboats I went on that day, I had capsized 5 times! Just because I wanted to. At the beginning of this story, I was so frightened but by the end I loved it so much I wanted to do over and over again!!