I slowly walked toward the edge holding the rope, looking over my shoulder down the almost five-story rock face, it didn’t seem so high anymore. My mind traveled back to the day five months before when I had first repelled down that cliff face for the first time. I had looked forward to repelling the whole time I had been at camp. That was until I got to the top of the rock. I …showed first 75 words of 311 total…

…showed last 75 words of 311 total…able to take small baby steps down the face. I eventually reached the bottom, and burst into tears, proud that I had made it and still shocked that I had. I heard the signal to repel down Tucumbsa; I took a deep breath and calmly paralleled the ground, and began repelling down taking the face taking giant leaps down the five-story rock face that no longer scared me, proud that I had overcome my fears.