ANDREW

BOUN

CARLOS

HECTOR

JOEY (YUET)

JORGE

MARIA

NARY

SUE

SUSAN

TU

YESENIA

Instructors

NICOLE

PERRINE

CHAPERONE

Life as a droplet of water....

Hi. My name is Andrew, and I am right here sitting on a rock next to the river. It[']s very loud where I am...

...I want to be a drop of water. Well, I am actually a saliva spit from someone He spit on top of a mountain on a river. I've been in the river for about two years now and everything is great, until I saw all of my buddies falling off the mountain. And I thought, ["]what am I going to do[,] do I try to run away?["] By the time I tried to get away, I already fell. As I was falling everything went slow and silent. I felt like I was going to water heaven, but as I got closer to the bottom, everything went so fast that I was covered by all these drops (people). Then I was in a different river, This river seemed more rough than calm. So I got used to it, after 12 years. So I decided to go to a calm area near the shore, but after 4 months a really weird animal put me and some other guys in some sort of a clear wall that as all around us. Then he put us all round us and he put me in him and got knocked out.

I've always wondered...

I've always wondered what it would be like to go down the rapid river. Would it be pleasant or would it be wild? If I was invincible and I had the patience, I would just jump into the river and see where would it take me. I want to see how the river moves and feel how the river takes me through the rough parts. I've always wanted to see what it would be like going through the rough parts. Nicole encouraged me to try out rock climbing. I'm going to ask my brother, Chris, to take me rock climbing and show me how. The river seems so gentle out here in the wilderness. I feel like the luckiest man alive. I never expected that this opportunity would happen to a boy like me, but it happen[ed], so I['d] better make the best of it...

...Tomorrow we are leaving, and I am grateful, but I kinda like it here, cause no [one] here tells me what to do; and no one worries where I am. I like it here, you know. Bye.