EXTREME

Some of you might have been there the day I broke my fear of roller coasters (8th grade band/orchestra trip to Cedar Point anyone???). Even then I never thought i'd do anything more rash then get on the Millennium Force but I have news.

About two months back, 4 of my friends and I got the balls to go skydiving. It sounded awesome but we were all really scared. The drive over was the worst. Roughly an hour in the car anticipating the worst. When we arrived at Skydive Cape Town, for some reason my fears subsided. Seeing the same jump instructor go off with two groups before me made the fear of dying much less real. I, somehow got roped into going first. The ride up in this rickety plane took about 25 minutes. It circled higher and higher up to 9,000 feet. Once it got close to the time, my jumper, Jason, hooked me into him and we edged closer to the door. The door slid over our heads and there was no turning back. I leaned my head back and stuck my legs out the door and tucked them under the plane. Jason leaned back and then threw the two

of us off.

EXHILARATING. You're going sooooooooo fast its unbelieveabe. After the initial

shock of falling out of plane it becomes shear joy. 30 seconds of free fall went by in only a moment. We then coasted with the parachute out for about another 6 minutes to get a nice view and make an easy landing. When we hit terra fimra, I was ready to go again. I'd recommend it to everyone.

Skydiving...check.

I mentioned the gorge swing in my last message so I won't elaborate too much, but 3 seconds of free fall was awesome.

Gorge swing...check.

I also went shark cage diving with a few friends about one month ago. We drove 2 hours out of cape town the top shark population density area around. When my term to jump in the cage came, I wasn't too scared because I had seen others go and the cage was attached to the side of the boat. We waited about the water, but when a shark came by we all dropped below the surface to catch a glimpse. They threw chum out in the water to attract them. When I was under I saw a HUGE great white come right at our cage chomping at the chum. It was somewhat scary, but mostly just really really cool. No good pictures from this unfortunately. When I got out of the water, our guide said that shark was the biggest he had seen in a year on the local waters, 5 meters long!

Shark Cage diving...check.

Bungee jumping to come soon.

Comp is dying so that's it for now!