Letter to a Personal Acquaintance

Today's Literature main assignment was to write a letter as if to a personal acquaintance, about a specific event in my life, and so this is the product of that.

Literature Main Assignment 2

Dear Barbara,

I am writing because I thought you might enjoy hearing of my experience in Sunsplash when I was younger. My father took me when I was about eight years old and I had never been before. We got to the park not knowing what to expect, my sister and I, but we were pleased to be along with my dad and Satin. They consciously made us apply sunblock as we stood in line to go in and the whole line smelled of chlorine, sunblock, and hot concrete. As an eight year old, the wait took an awfully long time but finally we got to the front, and the four of us put on the wristbands we had to wear to get in. When we stepped into the park, the concrete everywhere was wet. There was a wave pool in sight, and many massive looking waterslides that induced mass amounts of fear, excitement and adrenaline in my younger self. We were made to wait an eternity longer as my dad rented a locker, and made us put all of our things inside as well as reapply sunblock. We tried the smaller slides first, to comfort my younger sister and then we decided to move up to the larger ones. My dad, my sister and I all rode the first one together and as we pushed off from the start I clutched tightly at my little sister in front of me, afraid she would fall off of the three person raft. The tunnel domed high above my head, and as we flew downward on the water all of the light was cut off and it was dark. I held my sister tighter, feeling her fear, or perhaps my own and then we began to see little stars on the sides of the tunnel, I shrieked as the tunnel took a hard turn in the dark and then I began to laugh as I realized everything was okay. I could tell my laughter comforted my sister because she relaxed a bit in my grip. We whooshed happily out of the end of tunnel into the deeper Lazy River where many other people were riding round and round. The rest of the day was a blast, and everyone enjoyed themselves, even my sister gained some bravery and tried other slides. We had a very good time.

Yours truly,

Halie