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When I was at home with a friend, we got in my buggie and started doing doughnuts and we almost rolled it. It was on 2 wheels. We stopped and laughed, I gave him the wheel and let him do some. The nonse did the same thing as me and our hearts skipped a beat. But we ended up laughing again and kept having fun. After that we drove it through water and steam went everywhere, I could precict exactly what my parents would say to me and I know what my brother would do. We thought we broke it until we realised that it was just really hot. I learned that if you decide to be stupid and make bad decisions, you better be able to control the situation.

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When I went fishing with my friend, he was flicking a lure and the hook went straight into my finger. I learned that I should give him space to cast and he learnt to look whats behind him when he's casting his lure.

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Dont talk to strangers in Lithgow.

I was walking around on the streets of the beautiful Lithgow, when a raddled-looking woman came up to me from a backyard and said "Heeellllo," I proceeded to say hello and sped up my pace towards a more populated street, she pursued.

She started yelling about a "Yellow man" I couldnt make out the rest, I finally found my friends and stood with them as the woman caught up, she looked at us warned us of her and the yellow man, the walked off.

I havent seen her since, but maybe ill see her and the yellow man at my door at midnight "scary noise"

From that thrilling expereince I learnt that the amazing people of Lithgow are so advancing in intelligence that they see people who are not there, this has opened my eyes to the dangers of the fruitful people of Lithgow and warned me to keep my distance

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Once upon time it was Anthony Levis' (Levo) debut for Bathurst City Redbacks. He rolled up and his tummy was rumbling like thunder, I couldn't tell the difference. He said to me, "You and me, we're gonna put on a big (how ironic) partnership and crush these little kids dreams." Obviously how he is the GOAT of cricket, i agreed with him. Levo trundled to the pitch and was swinging his Levo bat the size of my arm. He didn't even ask for middle stump since he is the GOAT. Spag Bol came trundling in and bowled an absolute ripper. On my mothers life it swung from 7th stump on the offside to middle stump and absolutely cleaned up Anthony Levis. Levo slowly trundled back to the pavilion which was the size of him, and looked distraught. He didn't have a very good day even though he equalled his batting record of 0. What i learnt was that if you're name is Anthony Levis you can't crush little kids dreams.

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There was one time that me and my friend were at her house riding a quadbike together. We wanted to try and go on the motorbike track that her older brother used, even though we were confident something might go wrong, as neither of us knew what we were doing. We were mostly doing it for the thrill and to have a cool story to tell our friends. Unfortunately, (not wearing helmets) we went flying over a jump and flipped the quad. She broke a few fingers and I was fine except for some pretty deep cuts, but it was very silly of us considering we knew we couldn't do the same tricks her brother does. We learnt a very important lesson that day. We should never have taken a dangerous risk, particularly when quadbikes end so many lives. We are still lucky to this day that is didn't end a lot worse.

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The wave looked perfect, until it wasn't. I hesitated for half a second, and that was enough. The drop sent me tumbling, the water holding me down just long enough to make me question everything. When I finally surfaced, shaken but grinning, I paddled back out. This time I was more confident more prepared and ready to do it again. This time the wave was good to me and I was able to get up and catch a good wave.

I learnt that surfing is about the thrill of challenging nature and how instead of fighting it you can work with it.

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I was young baby at the age of 3. It was a quiet night filled with nothing but emptiness pitch dark, and a small light where my mother put me on my crib. I saw a rat for the first time it looked very big, and hairy. It was chewing on my toy, I didn't like it so I started to kick it with my right leg, it retaliated by biting my own right foot, I kept on kicking to make sure that this rat should never ever bite me ever but it ran away, I was heavily wounded blood on my feet bleeding nonstop. The pain I was in made me cry in such agony I was in, I felt like as if I was going to end up bleeding to death. Until my grandmother came and save me, she picked me up with her arms and ran to the hospital carrying me, a baby that is bleeding and crying in pain. I was fortunate enough to survive this disaster that has approached to me. I learnt that in life in such terrible situations there is always hope and there is always people to help you.

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At our neighbours place, there is a big Orange tree. During early spring we would go around the back on the horses, steal a few oranges and trot back home. No one knew anything. One day when we were picking the oranges, a big black snake slithered around the horses legs where they were tied up at a dainty little wire fence. They pulled back thankfully with no bites, but pulled the fence fully out of the ground. We ended up having to tell dad who fixed the fence but had to tell the neighbour. Although he just ended up laughing and didn't care at all. Lesson learned, be honest about what's going on.

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Down by the river, on a hot day, you'll find a heap of kids hanging out and using the old rope swing. Some land perfectly and others bellyflop into the water. Sometimes, the park ranger comes down and all the kids scamper into the surrounding bushland to a spot where they can see but not be seen. The ranger will pull out a saw and you can guess what he does. He cuts it off and yanks it down, chucking on the back of the land cruiser before strapping it down and driving away. Once the coast is clear, the kids spring into action. They grab a battered tyre that they've hidden away and a roll of white rope. Some tie knots and others get ready to through it up and over the tree branch. They get it attached on the first go and then they get the scrawny kid to test it. Once it's good, they start to take turns in using it and hurting themselves trying to get in the water.

The next day, the park ranger returns, and the kids make a new one.

Anecdote: Kids will be kids. If someone interferes with what they are trying to do, they bounce back and continue with what they were doing.

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Last summer me and my cousins, when we were on holidays decided to go for a walk through the forest around the caravan park that we were staying at. Our parents told us no to go anywhere past the beach entrance since we didn't know where we were going or what animals could be in there. We started our walk at around 8:30pm. We took a lot of twist and turns and ended up walking past the same place a lot of times. There were lots of tree roots and one of my cousins ended up falling over and cutting his leg open on a broken beer bottle. In the end we ended up on some beach about 2 beaches away and we had to call our parents to come pick us up cause we didn't know how to get back. By the time we got picked up it 11:30pm and pitch black and had to go to the hospital to stitch his leg up. From than we were not trusted to go anywhere without our locations turned on.

I learnt that we should just listen to our parent and don't go on walk abouts in places we have never been.

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In January my mum, my brother, my sister and I all went up to Noosa for a family holiday and one night mums friends came up and we all went out for dinner. After dinner all the kids went to go get ice cream while the parents went and met up with some other friends. When the parents left we all decided it was a good idea to go play volleyball on the beach. At first it was the best time of our lives full of freedom then moments later we all screamed at the sound of the drums beating above our heads then suddenly it began to pour down with rain. 3,2,1 and then there was a blackout. We had no light to get home, no sense of direction and no parents. We all got out our phones and shined our lights and all stayed together in a huddle almost like a school of fish. After a good hour of trying to get back to our hotel which seemed to look like every single one on that street almost like lego town, we finally made it home and the parents were fuming it was almost as if they had steam burning of their heads. And that night I learned that lying can be fun until danger overcomes it and puts not only you but others in danger.

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When I was younger me and my sister didn't want to clean our rooms so we went out on the motorbikes and I flipped it. I went to the hospital because I had snapped my femur. After finding this out I had to be flown to Sydney to have emergency surgery to put two metal screws in my leg. Because of this I had to be in a brace for 3 months and later had surgery again to get the screws removed. From this I learnt that I should just stay and clean my room.