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Mara C. Essay __**When I learned how to do a Back-flip**__ The first time I learned how to do a back-flip was when I was in Winter Park, Colorado. My family moved there when I was 7 years old. I just got my body-cast off at the time because I fell of a rollercoaster. When we got there my brother A.J. and I decided to go to the pool. So we got our swimming suits on and we took off. I jumped in first. Brrrrrrrrrr the water was freezing! My brother was facing and backward on the 6ft high diving board all of the sudden he jumped of the end ... but then I saw him in doing a backflip into the water! So after a while I got tired and we went back to our room and took a nap. About 2 hours later, my brother woke me up and said “we are going to the gymnastics place.”so I put on some clean clothes and off we went. We zoomed through the parking lot and into the huge gym. I saw my brother A.J. On a 13ft.high pedestal doing backflips over and over again. So I climbed up the pedestal and I was scared to death. So to make it easier I did a front flip. Weeeeeee. Well I conquered it. It wasn't to scary. So I climbed up again and I faced backward. That time I just fell off. So I climbed up one more time and while I was climbing I was telling myself “You can do a back flip, 3rd time is the charm.” So I went up. I was up. I leaned back as hard as I could and........... ahhhh! . “WOW”. My dad said as I was coming down. He said that I did a double back-flip instead of a regular back-flip. For the rest of the day, I did back-flips and back-flips. “Nice job Mara!” “Thanks Dad! Now that I learned how to do one I can do it any day!” Columbus Traditionol Cinquain By Mara C He was a nice man. He was the man that found the New World. He was a very great, great, great man.