Creative Writing – January
‘07
The picture below was displayed in class and then discussed. The
challenge was to write the story behind the picture. This is just one example
of the type of stories which were handed in by the class.
Please wait for the picture to load…….
Conquering
my Fears
Hi my name is Michael Marley. I am 10 years old. We were going on a
school trip up to Clara Lara Outdoor Activity Centre in Co. Wicklow. I
wasn’t going to go on many of the amusements but something
extraordinary happened to me that day. I was talking to my friends on the bus
on the way up to Clara Lara. We were all talking about going on all the
amusements. I told everyone that I couldn’t wait to get there but I was
actually quite nervous because I am a quiet boy and wouldn’t be too
assertive and wouldn’t really like to go on many of the rides. We
seemed to take forever to finally finish the 1 hour and a half long journey.
I was still worried about people laughing at me because I am scared of
heights and of not going on most of the scary rides.
I got off the bus with my friends Joe, Lucy, Tom and Bob. The second I
got out all I could hear was the word WOW over and over again…. it was
like a stampede of elephants ..that’s how loud it was. We were going
around the place all day long. I was going on all the rides that were not even
in my age-group. My friends on the other hand were going on all the big and
scary amusements they could find. All I was doing when they were going down
the rides was cheering them on and saying well done when they were finished
going on them. At the end of the day we came to this 1 slide!
It
was huge and the building construction wasn’t finished yet but we could
still go on it. I’m having a guess that everybody else went on it at
least 5 times each. As usual I just stood there cheering as everybody else
came down not even thinking about going down myself but then my friend Bob
asked me a question. He asked me to go on the slide. I was surprised with his
question because he knows that I do not like things like that. My answer was
easy. I told him that I wouldn’t like to go on it. His replied OK and
just kept going on the slide as I was thinking about going on it myself. I
thought to myself why not go on the slide I have nothing to lose. So I told
everyone that I was going to go down the slide. I waited in line for about 20
minutes which was a bad thing because it gave me time to think about how
scary it might be. Finally it was my turn and the man gave me a boogie board
and I sat down at the top of the slide. My friend Tom was at the slide
attached to it (they were both the same slide). Everybody at the bottom of
the slide shouted 3, ….2, …..1 …..GO. My friend Tom went
but I stayed at the top. Thoughts were running through my head about ….should
I go or shouldn’t I go. All my friends down at the bottom of the slide
were counting on me and shouted that I could do it. I thought to myself that
I wouldn’t just be letting them down
…I would be letting myself down. I smiled down at everyone and
in a quick instant I was speeding down the slide. When it stopped all I could
hear was cheering. I got up and out of the pool and everybody came rushing
towards me to congratulate me. I told my friends that I couldn’t
believe that I had just done that. They answered that they knew I could!
On the bus on the way home
everyone was still congratulating me on my fantastic performance. I waved goodbye
to my friends as they shouted as loud as they could WELL DONE! I went in to
my house with a sad face on me and my parents asked me what was wrong. I just
told them that I went on the biggest slide in Clara Lara. They were thrilled
for me. I told them the whole story and we celebrated me conquering my fear
of heights. What seemed as though a normal day for everybody else in my 5th
class was an extraordinary day for me.
By Tommy Power
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