After that, we decided to meet up at Mooney’s bay at 3 o’clock sharp. This was my first winter in Canada and I felt quite nervous about tobogganing. I was in second grade at the time and I was terribly afraid of the possibility of injuring myself. It was a hard decision, but I knew I had to go tobogganing one way or another, so I decided to go with Henry to Mooney’s Bay.
The journey to Mooney’s Bay felt inevitably long as I was anxious throughout the whole trip. We finally arrived at Mooney’s Bay and towed our toboggans up the hill. On my first ride down the hill, I shut my eyes as tightly as possible, I felt wind cutting across my face like a knife as we charged down the hill …show more content…
I agreed to go though still having doubts about the ride. On the ride down we charged at maximum velocity towards an icy rock. We narrowly avoided the rock but unfortunately, Henry lost control of the toboggan as he turned a sharp right to avoid the rock and plummeted towards another toboggan and flipped over it, landing upside down on the ground. Thirty minutes later, the paramedics arrived with a stretcher and examined my injuries and addressed my parents to tell them about my severe injuries in the nasal part of my face as I laid helplessly on the frigid ground, which felt like concrete with spikes integrated inside. The paramedics applied first aids on my injuries and carried me on a stretcher back to the ambulance and delivered me to the hospital. They examined the injury and found traces of concussion symptoms. I spent a day in the hospital rustling through my belongings for any source of entertainment. My parents were with me in the hospital, but had to take care of my younger sisters, so I spent most of my time feeling lonely in the protracted and dim corridors of the hospital. It felt like the clock had frozen in time as I waited anxiously to get out of the hospital. The food tasted abhorrent as I gulped down the remains of the dry and tasteless omelettes, sandwiches, and hamburgers. Henry felt guilty about injuring me and visited the