In Branson School Online I made a story about a boy with a dream to go on roller coasters, and hear it is.
Roller coasters are a lot of fun, there are different kinds of roller coasters. They are big, small, wooden, metal, high, long, scary, and fun.
When you are on a roller coaster you feel the wind on your face and you get lots of butterflies in your stomach going up and down up and down.
I know a boy named Tim, he went on a big roller coaster, it’s a great story, let me tell you. Tim was five years old when he started to like roller coasters. He saw roller coasters on TV, he had pictures of roller coasters, he had roller coaster toys, and his friends that went on roller coasters told him all their favorite ones.
When Tim turned seven, his parents took him to an amusement park, he saw all kinds of roller coasters, and he was so excited! His first ride was called The Dragon, he was tall enough to go on that ride.
The roller coaster zoomed up, down, over across, and through. After the ride he said “I love roller coaster’s they are lots of fun!” Unfortunately he could not go on all the rides that year because he was not tall enough, he was okay with it but the ones he could not go on were the best.
That afternoon they went on a total of 15 rides, and after that they got popcorn, ice cream, and cotton candy.
When he and his family left the park he dreamed of going on the big big roller coasters that he was not tall enough to go on that day.
He tried to get bigger day after day by eating healthy foods that his mom told him to eat but he never did until now. After three months, he had grown five inches, he went trough his growth spurt.
His goal was to grow to 54 inches by his next visit to the amusement park, which was in two years.
Tim also started doing stretches everyday in the morning but after a week or so, he gave up. In fact he gave up everything, eating and stretching, he just got tired of them and after a while he completely forgot about his goals.
Six months have passed and winter came. One day after school he and his friends were making a snow roller coaster in the front yard of his house and at that very moment Tim remembered his goal.
He froze just like an icicle! Then he ran into his house and measured himself. He was so surprised that he had grown four more inches. He was so excited, that he started jumping up and down because he only had four more inches to go and ride the big roller coasters!
The next day at school, his teacher Mr. Watson told him and the other students in the class to write about their favorite thing to do. You probably know what Tim was going to write about, if you said roller coasters you are right. In Art class, his teacher Mrs. Butterfinger told him and the other students in the class to draw their favorite thing to do.
Again, roller coasters were his pick. Mrs. Butterfinger told the class that she would choose the three best drawings in the whole school to enter the State Art Festival, which was in a year.
The next year he finally grew tall enough to go on the big roller coasters he was so happy that he could not sleep that night. Tim and his family traveled by car for two and a half hours to the amusement park. On the way there, they stop to eat lunch.
When they finely arrived at the park, they got out of the car and Tim went wild, he saw the two big roller coasters that he could not go on two years ago, they are called: The Melter, and the best one of all, The Speeding Bullet.
The first one he went on was The Melter, the line was not that big, and he only had to wait 30 minutes. As soon as he got on the ride Tim was shaking all over with excitement, as soon as the ride started it went in a big tunnel and stopped for a few seconds. There where hot boiling pots all around them it was so hot in the tunnel that the people on the ride started to sweat.
The roller coaster started to move again getting faster and faster, they came out of the tunnel and a splash of water hit their faces and when Tim rubbed his eyes he saw a big hill going up, Tim new he was probably going to get one thousand butterflies in his stomach, as soon as he got to the top of the hill the roller coaster went down so fast that people were screaming so loud. Tim loved the ride, after three flips in a row the ride ended. He got off it and told his family all about it.
The next ride was The Speeding Bullet, the line was the longest of all, it was an hour long but it was all worth it. He finally got on the ride with his dad, he strapped in and he was ready to go, as soon as the started it went up and did five flips in a row in the air and zoomed down.
“The ride was so short but the fastest of all, it was a thrill to be on it” said Tim .
Tim went on many rides that day and when he left the park at 8:30pm his dad drove the family home that night. It was 11:00pm when they got home. Tim was so tired he went to bed as soon as he got home.
The next day Tim got a call from his teacher Mrs. Butterfinger, she said that he had won 1rst place in the State Art Festival, and the prize was a trip a amusement park, he was so shocked with the news and ready to ride again.
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