Pictures of Me Doing "Scary" Things

I am not scared of many things. In fact, I find very little that instills fear in me. Here are a few pictures of me confronting other people's fears.

Here I am zorbing with my sister Chelsea in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Zorbing is a sport invented in New Zealand in which 1-3 people roll down a hill in a plastic bubble. There are 2 kinds of zorbs- the ones that strap you in (so you rotate with the ball) and the ones with water (so you slosh around inside it). I did both.

Here I am in an indoor skydiving wind tube, also in Pigeon Forge. My mom did this with me and I was so proud of her! This was about 2 years before my first real skydiving experience.

In April 2010, I was an exchange student in Suzhou, China. My exchange partner took this picture of me walking up a Buddhist temple. The staircase was really narrow and steep. The experience of staying with people I had never met before in a foreign country was scary in itself, but climbing the stairs was pretty scary too.

Chelsea, my dad and I went parasailing in Rincon, Puerto Rico. It was probably the least scary "scary" thing I could have done. Once you're up above the water it is incredibly peaceful and quiet. The view is lovely.

Also in Rincon, my dad and I took a day trip to do some ziplining, rapelling and canoeing. Leaping off the platform was more exhilarating than scary. It was also a really nice day with my dad.

This is the cave my dad and I canoed through on the same day. There were bats flying overhead but we were told not to be afraid of them because their sense of echolocation would prohibit them from getting close. It was still a little scary since bats are kind of like birds (one of my true fears).

This is a picture I took at a graveyard on Halloween night, 2009. A few friends and I just went for a walk that night, thinking that we would scare ourselves. Instead it was really just a nice walk. The grounds were well kept and nothing about it was scary.

I took this picture in the back of a helicopter about to fly around Newport, Rhode Island. My dad and the pilot are sitting in front of me. I guess getting close to the helicopter to get in was a little nerve racking,but otherwise it was just a nice ride. It was a fantastic view of the area. 

This is me skydiving on my 18th birthday (the first day of my life I could legally do it). I went with my friend Brendan, who jumped first. Seeing him fly away ahead of me was terrifying, but I had been so excited to do this for such a long time that I was ready to go. I had a pretty rough landing (more of a crash) that left my legs sore for a few days, but the experience was absolutely unforgettable.