Murky Water-Personal Narrative

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We had just arrived at the hotel. I was so excited to go and see my buddies on the team that I just left my dad in the car. As I looked over everyone was just chilling by the dock behind the hotel. It looked to me as if everyone was going to jump off the old wooden dock into the green murky water. I hopped out of the truck as soon as my dad put it in park and ran over to the dock to meet up with my buddies. I got over there and figured out that our coach was paying kids to jump into the murky water from the dock. At first I thought that anyone that was going to jump was out of their mind. But I watched as many kids on my team jumped and I saw how much fun they were having. So I decided that maybe I would jump from the dock into the murky water. For all that I knew there was crabs, big fish and huge man eating sharks. I didn’t even feel like going to our room to get my bathing suit so I decided to just jump in with my …show more content…
All my mind could think of when I jumped in was a humongous and ferocious great white shark waiting for me in the murky water. I got out of the water and all my buddies came over and were yelling at me and pointing at my leg. A sense of fear came over my body as I looked down at my leg. There was a vertical gash in the middle of my right leg. I don’t remember slashing my leg anywhere and it definitely was fresh because there was blood streaming down my leg. I guess I never felt it because of all the adrenaline running through my body from jumping. I figured that I definitely got the cut in the water or running up the ladder. Neither of those were good because neither were very clean. On the flip side, it was fun but, we never got 20 bucks. Although to make up for it coach bought us all ice cream at
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