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I looked over by the big rock and saw Joshua sitting on it, thinking. It was summer break, but my family wasn't on vacation at the moment. I walked over to him. "Hi," I said. "Hi," he replied. "Are you bored?" I said. "Yeah," he said. "Do you wanna go down the the edge of the river there?" I suggested. "Ok," he responded. As we passed by the large hole we had dug a year ago, we both glanced at it. "Y'know, maybe we should keep digging," he said. "Yeah," I responded. We looked for our old sticks, and upon not finding them, we searched for new ones. I furiously worked around a huge rock, while Josh alternated between digging and scooping out dirt. After a while, Josh attempted to rip the rock out of the ground. The rock tumbled out and both of us jumped. "I think that's enough for now!" I exclaimed. He agreed. Then we slid down to the edge of the river. "Let me show you something," I told him. I walked to the left of the small rocky beach, and we came to a much wider portion of the river with lots of rocks. It led to a small lake. We hopped on the rocks across the river, being careful not to fall and get wet. We came to a large beach area near the lake.

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I peered around the bustling city, Japanese people walking everywhere. It was getting late. Before my family went back to our hotel, we stopped at a ramen place to eat some dinner. Since we didn't speak Japanese, it was a little confusing to the people there. They only had one English speaker, but quickly everything was normal again. We sat down and waited for our bowls of ramen. It came steaming and delicious. Ramen was one of those things I had dreamed before we came to Japan. I slurped down the noodles and gobbled up everything else. Then we walked back to our hotel, and I daydreamed of everything we would do tomorrow. We arrived at the hotel and got settled in. Then my mom went to the women's bath. Me, my dad, and my brother headed into the men's bath. I was kind of awkward, just watching a bunch of people sitting in the bath, so we just took a quick dip and came out. Instead of staying in the indoor bath, we went into the outdoor bath, where it was more quiet. We stayed for what seemed like half an hour, and then we got out and dried ourselves off. As we walked back to our hotel room, my mom was waiting for us. In Japan, there were no beds, so we slept on the floor, with some covers. It was actually pretty cozy, and I fell asleep quickly, content with Japan.

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He brushed aside the crowded plants and peeked through. There it was. The familiar little river. He stepped down onto roots to the base of the river. Then he stepped carefully onto several rocks to the other side of the river. He looked right. A mountain with water flowing down under enormous rocks. He looked left. A couple wooden stairs and a path that looked as if it hadn't been stepped on in decades. He walked up the stairs, and into through the woods. He met a clump of trees blocking the way. Or, it couldn't really be called a "way" because it looked like normal forest ground to him. Through the woods he watched a normal family laughing on the main path. They didn't see him or the old path. Then he turned right and began to head right. After only a few seconds he came to the mountain. Trees had blocked the area right in front of him. There were two ways to get through, but one required him to walk through water and he didn't have any swimming gear on. That left him the other way. He carefully stepped on the flat and least mossy rocks to get the fallen trees. Then he lay flat on his stomach and rolled under the trees. He stood up on the other side. Looking ahead, he had a wider view of the mountain. The end was still out of sight. Alan climbed over another tree to reach the right side of the mountain. The rocks were enormous and it would be easy to jump from rock to rock. But it was still dangerous, so Alan crouched down onto his hands and feet and went from rock to rock like a leopard. There was a large gap blocking his way after a while so went around it walking on the forest area beside the mountain. There was another path that no one had been on for a long time, but he went back onto the rocks, as the steep terrain prevented him from going on the forest any longer. He leaped from rock to rock, going deeper and deeper into the forest, and higher and higher up the mountain. Then he saw the end. There was an enormous cliff wall at the end. Alan didn't know if he could go around. He went closer to it, several times almost slipping on deceiving rocks. Then he saw the most beautiful thing There was a small pond, with trees near it, and frogs in it. There was also a hole in the wall spouting water into the pond. It reminded him of the hot baths he had seen in Japan, with dragon heads spouting water, except that this was more beautiful. Just then, he heard his dad calling for him. He looked back down the mountain. He looked back at the pond. He wanted to go further, but it would have to wait another day. He scrambled down the mountain to reassure his dad that he was fine. Then they went back to the old path again and crossed the river.

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I used to be really scared of heights. It was one day at Splash Adventure that I managed to overcome that fear, partially at least. Me, my dad, and my brother walked up the ramp with probably hundreds of other people with our donut floaties. No one knew about the word "Covid19", because this was more than a year before it started. Soon we started going up stairs. Me and my brother had a few troubles with our two-person floatie, but I was not scared yet. I had been to the Neptune's Plunge before, but I kept forgetting how high it went. The stairs kept going up. By this time, my fear of heights had started to kick in, and by looking up to see where the walkway would lead, I could see how far we had to go up. My excited emotions did not disappear, but they started to be pushed aside by my fear of heights. Up and up we went. My fear started to increase, as I saw the ground get farther and farther away. We walked up the stairs, as my dad and brother told me not to worry. I looked down, quiet, but in my mind terrified. Finally we reached the top. There we Splash Adventure staff directing people into the waterslides. I gulped. The floor was made of bars. They were close together, but no so close as to preventing me from seeing the ground through them. And it was far away. The staff member directed me and my brother to one of the waterslides. The tunnel was closed of course, but I knew how far away the ground was. My dad went after us. Me and my brother climbed into our floatie and waited. After a few seconds, the staff member told us to get ready, and then she pushed us into the tunnel. We shot down, curving and weaving our way through the tunnel. The water made it seem like we were going down a waterfall. "Ahhh!" I screamed. My brother was calmer. We dropped and twisted and I felt like I was being pulled apart. But then after a few exhilarating seconds I had gotten used to the turns. I actually enjoyed the ride. Then we popped out into the open part of the tunnel. It felt like time was slowed down. I smiled. Then we burst into the large pool where all the tunnels led to. It was nearly as scary as I thought it would be. It was really a lot more fun. That doesn't mean I would be fine on the Leaning Tower though.

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Alan stepped out of the car into the cool morning breeze before Cahaba Heights. He was the 1st participant out of 5 in the district spelling bee. This year he was in 5th grade, and representing West. Only one year before he had dreamed of representing Central in the district spelling bee. But he had been defeated in the school spelling bee by none other than Sam Baskar Raj. The feeling of being 2nd place, so close to the top, but having to wait till next year had plunged him into deep despair. One year later, he won the school spelling bee. Now, he was at the site of the district spelling bee, and he was prepared to win. He walked into the building and asked around several times to find the room where he needed to go. Once there, he was seated in a row of chairs. He was the first to arrive. During a period of 15 minutes or so, the others arrived and were seated. Then the spelling bee began. There were several rounds and one of the participants dropped out. Finally, it came back to him again. "Spell 'shepherd'," said the speaker. He nodded. "S, h, e, p, e, r, d," Alan said, "Sheperd." He waited tensely for the nod that would come. One shake of his head. His mind was swirling around with confusion, but then he realized his insanely simple mistake. As Alan walked down the path to defeat, he was seated in the audience. He watched the other participants slowly drop out from words even simpler than his. He didn't know whether they had studied much larger and more complex words like he did, but he knew they felt the same sense of defeat as he had. Alan had studied the pages over and over and over and over again, for months. Yet he had failed on the simplest of words. A few weeks later, he had gotten over the sadness. He had a new goal.

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Alan and Joshua picked at the bottle submerged in the dirt with their sticks. "It's obviously sunscreen, dum dum," Alan told Joshua. "No, it's not," replied Josh, "It's an antique wine bottle." "Bruh, look at it." "It's still an antique bottle." "Ok then, dig it up!" said Alan. "Ok," said Josh. Josh started removing the dirt around the bottle to make it easier to remove. After a while, Alan joined in. They scrubbed at the dirt while replacing their sticks several times until they had both found a good, strong stick to dig with. By the time recess had ended, the bottle was halfway dug out. The next day, Josh and Alan scrubbed at the dirt with renewed vigor. Suddenly they came across across a big rock. Determined to get the bottle before recess ended, they sped up their digging and they alternated digging, scooping the dirt out, and pulling at the rock. By the time, the rock was out, both their hands were red and brown. Even through this, they continued to dig out the bottle. Other kids stopped to stare at the two miniature miner friends digging a hole. At last, the bottle was dug out enough and Josh used his superhuman strength to rip out the bottle. Both of them sighed and lay down on a huge rock bigger than a bed. They didn't even stop to look and see that the bottle was neither of their guesses. To this day, they don't even know what it is. That tiny hole was the beginning of a story that would lead to a whole class digging holes, and a new adventure.

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The storming clouds poured down rain onto me and my brother's back. We biked into the parking lot to find no one there. The park was completely empty. My older brother biked casually around the parking lot, while I searched for our dad's car. I couldn't find it anywhere. My brother finally realizes what was going on. We stopped our bikes and looked around. I looked at him. "Oh, shoot." I said. The storm seemed to grow even stronger, with thunder and lightning, blasting almost every few seconds. Me and brother hopped onto our bikes again and rode into the neighborhood around the park. We looked around again. Everyone had gone into their houses, waiting out the storm and doing other tasks. Me and my brother continued to get soaked in rain. We were wet rags in a flood. As we continued to bike through the neighborhood, I had a nagging feeling that something, or someone was watching me. I looked back and I saw nothing but shadows in the trees. I somehow knew there was nothing but couldn't convince myself of it. I was about to give up searching, and then... that familiar black Tahoe came riding around the corner with my dad in it.

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Hi! I'm Alan Sheng! I have black hair, and I have black eyes. I am really short for my age, and I can definitely prove that because people are gaping at my height. I like reading, and finding a quiet spot of nature to sit down and think. I am obsessed with swords, because they are cool. I am also really weird. I do a lot of things that other people probably wouldn't find very interesting. I have a lot of wacky friends, too. That's basically me!