When I was around 9 years old, I went to my first fair where I was tall enough to ride rides. I was so excited about the thought of roller coasters that I didn’t even realize how big they were. I decided to ride the Crazy Mouse that year. By the time we got to the front of the line I was bouncing up and down, they buckled me in and sent me up, I was so excited, until I got to the top. That horrible moment when I realized how bad my decision was. Since that ride, I have never fully trusted roller coasters ever since.
At the beginning of 2016, my brother started to skateboard, I was really critical with him and critiqued him until the one day I tried it out myself. I enjoy the feeling of gliding in the wind, rolling around, and relaxing. Later I learned how to ripstik, which is really just skateboarding with two wheels and more balance. I got hooked and started to go out boarding alone, always appreciating the small escape it gave me from daily life.
About five years ago, I started to get into gaming. Video games, card games, and even creating my own games. I would always love to create a new game that people loved and would like to play. I soon started to transition into making card games at the age of 11 and have since created around 6 stand-alone card games, all hand drawn. At around the age of 14, I got into the mechanics of video games and started to create them myself and am currently in the process of creating 2 right now.
Whenever I was told that we were going to go fly somewhere, I would always become very excited. I loved to fly in an airplane and look at the world from a bird’s eye view, and I love looking out the windows when it is dark to find the bright lights of the cities we had just flown over. I was never bothered by turbulence and rarely got sick. I never think about the negatives on an airplane, and just enjoy the ride.
As every child knows, waterparks can be fun for all ages, everyone can relax and lay in the sun or in the lazy river, or just try all the big slides at once. I was one of the kids who enjoyed going on all of the medium sized slides and below, if it was really big and steep, then no thank you, but a simpler, less steep one would have me having fun for hours. I had always loved waterparks from my younger age and have slowly started to take on bigger and bigger slides, each more enjoyable than the last.