Samantha Uyehara

Slice of Life Writing-A Day at the Carnival

It was June 20 and the 50th state fair was going on. My friends invited me to go to the

50thstate fair with them. I asked my mom if I could go with my friends and she said yes. So at 4:45 I met up with my friends. There were six of us who showed up. My friends and I were standing in the longest line waiting hours and hours to go on the Fireball. I heard that the reball is the scariest ride at the fair because it holds you up in the air for more than 10 seconds and it goes faster than the others. said Taylor. I also heard that the ride goes backwards too.replied Allison. My heart racing, I climbed into the seat, fastened my seatbelt, and o we go! "AAAAHHHH!!!!!" I screamed. I screamed on the Fireballthe whole ride, very fast, very scary. As the ride came to anend, we jumped o and went on another ride. My friends and I went on tons of rides and Iscreamed on every one of them. Do you guys want to go on that ride? I said in a raspy voice. Oh my goodness, Sami I think youre almost losing your voice said one of my friends. "I know. I have to stop talking" It was incoherent for my friends to hear what I was saying because it took my friends awhile for them to understand what I was trying to tell them. Since I couldn't talk, we played some games. We played a game called Toss-a-Ring. The objective of the game is to toss the amount of rings that you paid for and toss it in the array of soda boles. You must have it land on top of the bole to get a prize. It was really challenging. However, when it came to games at a fair, I was awless at it. I would always have to bring 2 garbage bags for my prizes because I couldnt carry it all. "Hey you guys! Do you want to play every game there are in this tent?"

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I said. "Sami, you're not supposed to talk or else you'll lose your voice. It'll be so fun if we play all of the games. What happens if we don't have enough money?" my friend says. "Oh, I never thought about that. Heres what we should do, we shall only play it once and if we still have enough money, then we can play it again. I'm sorry I can't help it. You know how I love to talk and socialize with you guys." Ireplied. Then we all laughed about it. It was about 9:00 pm by the time we nished all of the games except for one. Out of the games that we played, I won a huge monkey, a tiny banana, 3 lile frogs, a green turtle, and a giant dolphin. Out of my group of friends, I had won the most things. I was humility towards them, because I didnt want my friends to think Im a bragger. I felt bad for my friend Shayla because she didnt win anything while the others won something. So I oered her one of my frogs but she dint't take it. "No, I'm sorry I can't take it." I grabbed the pen and paper on the table and wrote down, "It's okay Shayla you can have it. I want you to have it." "I'm sorry but I want to win something on my own." Explained Shayla. I respected that. It came down to only one game left and it was called Pop-Balloon. The objective of the game was to throw 4 darts at the ballon and make it pop. I tried that game with Shayla. I only got 3 popped. I nished before Shayla and she got 2 popped so far. I bet it was facile for her to pop 4 balloons because she took archery. I was cheering for her in my mind since I couldn't talk. "POP. POP" When I heard that noise. I screamed out her name.

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"Hey Sami, Your voice is back." shouted one of my friends. "YAY!" I was ferment to Shayla because it was an event that shouldnt be forogen. Thank you Sami said Shayla For what? You did it all on your own. I had nothing to do with it. Yeah but you pushed me into believing in myself that I could do it. Shayla replied. Her eyes glanced, wet and glossy, from crying of joy. Youre welcome It was around 9:30 pm and I havent eaten anything since weve goen here and Im starving. My friends and I foraged for food in the trash cans because we had run out of money. The food in the trash cans were fairly decent, not the best, but prey good. We sat down on the benches and ate our foods. As I was was digesting my food, it lulled me to sleep because it was a long day and I was tired.