Personal Narrative: My Trip To Orman Dam

This question for me has a couple stories. Since this story has to be in a certain amount of time I am going to tell the one time I thought I couldn’t wake surf. Well let the story begin. A couple of summers ago my family and I went to Orman Dam. While we were there we knee boarded and tubed. We were all having so much time and while we were doing all that my dad was filling up the ballast. If you don’t know what that is it is a spot on the back side of the boat where a giant pillow thing gets filled up with water. You need this because it weighs down that one side of a boat so you get a wake that looks similar to a wave at the ocean. Also if you do not know how to wake surf you first get handed a rope. Then after that you get into the water you say OK and the boat starts to move a little slow. While the boat moves you …show more content…
So like it was before my did went my mom went and some other people tried it and while they surfed my parents told me to concentrate on how they got up and surfed and so I did. Finally it was my turn and just like before I couldn’t. After some time I actually got up. Oh, dude that was almost like the best day of my life I finally did it but I was only up for a little bit. So after more tries and inspiration from my parents I actually stood up for a while and this is only just the beginning. I still have to let go of the rope. So another week passes by and we do the usual. We knee board tube and yeah you get the point. Now it is time to surf and I think I go first, maybe I don’t really remember it that well. Since I got the hang of getting up it took me like two to three tries to get up. When I got up I got to the spot I needed to and I kind of got into the groove but I just wasn't ready yet. Then I fell and had to get up again and this time I was