~Ray Lee,  Class of 2028

It all started here in Plum Island, Massachusetts. I had been coming here for around 3 years and nothing like this ever happened before.

      Everything was normal except for the weather. It was colder. I was just playing in the ocean and once I got back to land I saw it:  a huge blue curve about to hit me.

      Once it did hit me I was like oh !#%^**** 

      So anyway, I was being swallowed and strangled alive by the 15 foot tall wave.  I was asking myself, am I  going to die?

      But I  got out of the wave but then sucked into another wave 

      Oh !#%^**** not  again.

      So before I could get out of that wave another wave crashed on top 

      I was like will I get sucked into the ocean?   what will happen to me? will I even end up in the belly of a great white shark?

     So while I  was fighting for my life my dad (trying to grab me but was failing) looked soooo worried

     After a minute or two, Two men pulled me out. They looked like twins from head to toe 

      When I looked behind me I saw the whole beach was flooded with like 1,000 gallons of water, people lost beach chairs , sunglasses like my dad’s and much more that I  should not mention for school appropriate reasons. 

The next day I saw my brother boogie boarding where it happened. My dad saw me and said “do you want to go out there?”

      And I was like heck no 

      After an hour I decided to go boogie boarding and I  never had so much fun in my life.

        So after that monster I realized I should never ever go in the water at high HIGH tide.Then I came home and saw baby birds in a nest on a big shrub. And it was magical seeing the baby robins being fed. I have been watching the birds for the past week and a half. And seeing them hatched was amazing. So I figured I’d have to trust what I loved and it’s always been working.