by Alexandra

It was a beautiful Tuesday morning, when the children have finished their school. All boats came to a sand bank to play and kite until the end of noon. Arabella got herself ready on the boat, then kited down to where others were kiting too.

Azania, Mama, and I used the dinghy to get to the beach. I hopped off as Arabella stopped and dragged her kite to the sand and got out of her harness. Just at that moment my friend Pipa came with her father and were ready to start kiting. Babi told me to go watch and he'll get my kite ready while I learnt how to stand up on the board. 

I have only got on a board for half a minute once in the Union Islands, But that was a long time ago. This was going to be the first actual time I was trying the board!

When I saw Pipa easily get up, I felt something spark in me like, "OH! WOW, She's not so bigger than me! If she can do it, SO CAN I!"

Pipa flew away and Babi came, holding my kite, he handed it over to me and said, "put the safety on then the chicken loop, then put the chicken finger in too."  I did as he asked then put my feet in the board, he instructed me and pointed out the things not to do and the things I should.

I was SO excited! I cannot even express how happy I was! I kept on thinking about how cool I was going to be, and that I would be able to kite with the older kids!! HORRAY!!!

After a minute I held the bar and took a deep breath in and out, Babi told me to bring the Kite down to eleven o'clock then back up to twelve o'clock.

I got up on the board for my first time, the three seconds of getting up felt like minutes. My butt immediately started hurting, and I felt like a million kg were lifted off me. I tried to go up into the wind, but the kite was too strong, it pulled me into the air and my board fell off my feet! 

I tried to fight against the kite and grabbed my board, I was very frustrated because the kite would not allow me to bring the board in front of me. Water was entering my mouth for what felt like eternity!!! The kite finally cooperated with me and I managed to get the board onto my feet, it was the WORST part throughout the kite, the rest of it was AMAZING and FUN! I got up and tried kiting towards the sand spit, I was terrified, and I was keen to get back to Babi.

But then, I pulled the bar too hard, and the kite brought me high into the air! I let go immediately, I looked back to find the board, but unfortunately it was WAY too far away for me to reach it. On the bright side the sand spit was straight in front of the kite. I body dragged back to the sand spit, I was very grouchy, this did not go as I wanted it to go, But I still had a BLAST!

When I arrived, I let go of the bar and stopped completely. Arabella grabbed the kite from the sky, and pushed it down into the sand, Babi came and helped me out of the harness. I got out and took the towel Mama handed to me. I had some cookies and got warm. Babi went to go fetch the board. Now that was the conclusion of the story, all of my butt pains was worth it after all.

IT WAS AMAZING, I WILL DEFINTLY TRY AGAIN!!!