Life Reflection

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

          The last time I did something for the first time was go ice skating and riding in zero gravity. I had never gone ice skating before. Over winter break me and my family took a trip to Navy Pier's Winter Wonderfest. I had never gone there before. So it was a whole new experience for me. The experience was really cool. I got to go on all different rides. The best ones were ice skating and "Riding Zero Gravity".
          I had never gone ice skating before so ice skating was a whole new experience. I had no experience on how to ice skate. So that made it difficult for me because I was/am a beginner. I thought ice skating was gonna be easy because a lot of people made it look easy. I was way wrong. When I entered the skate ring I almost slipped right away. I had no balance with me and I had no experience. I began to skate around the edge of the ring, then after I while I got the hang of it... sort of. The truth is skating is way more difficult than it looks.

          Ice skating also left me with a memory.... burned skin. When I got the ice skating shoes I don't know what it had on the inside but when I began to ice skate the shoe kept rubbing against my skin. In result of rubbing against my skin repetitively it caused it to burn my skin... badly. I have had this burn ever since I went ice skating and I currently still have it.   

          A whole new experience for me was riding in zero gravity. I had never done that before. In Navy Pier's Winter Wonderfest they had a ride called "Riding Zero Gravity." The title itself seems tempting. The line to the ride was only 10 min because a lot of people wanted to ride it. On the ride you couldn't sit down you had to stand up. The only security you got was a loose belt. Which made me doubt the ride. When the ride began it was only spinning in circles then it began to get really fast then the ride got into a vertical position. You could see all the people in line including most of the Wonderfest. During the ride you could not move at all. If you tried to move your head it would get pushed back. "Riding Zero Gravity" and ice skating were two whole new experiences for me.