User blog:Lalainee/Near Death Experiences!

I almost died today. It started when me and about 100 or so other students left for a field trip to a camp, which was supposed to be really fun. I was just excited that I didn't have school today so that I didn't have to take a math test I wasn't ready for. XD Anyway, after everyone was assigned buses, I was dismayed to see that my bus was the only gray bus out of four yellow ones, which made me think it was of lower quality than the other three. My friends joked about it, and I disregarded it. We got on the bus and took off.

About an hour and a half into the trip, my two girl friends were having a discussion about Kingdom Hearts while I listened to my iPod. Suddenly, the bus shook pretty violently, as if we had run over something. I had sort of a WTF? moment, but I assumed it was no big deal. A few moments later, it happened again, except the bus shook even harder. This is when I started to worry. Before I knew it, the bus was on two wheels, leaning to the right while going at high speed down a steep hill. My instincts took over and I linked arms with both of my friends who were next to me, holding especially tight to my friend who was sitting on the outside of our row because her seatbelt wasn't on.

The bus slammed back onto four wheels, shaking us violently a third time. Finally, the bus driver turned sharply into a tree, sending my face directly into the seat in front of me. I put my hand to my mouth and tasted blood, but the first thing I did when it was all over was ask if everyone was all right. A guy friend of mine broke open the emergency exit window, and jumped out. My two girl friends and I followed soon after, and the three of us hugged for a good three or four minutes. For the next 45 minutes, people were hugging each other and crying because they were so glad we were all alive. Unfortunately, a few people did get injured, but nothing was too serious. As it would turn out, the reason the bus was having trouble was because the brakes were not working, so we were extremely lucky to have hit the tree instead of continuing down the hill, where we could have been seriously injured at high speed. The violent shakings had actually been our bus colliding with the bus in front of us, which was followed closely by us tipping to the right.

I am so thankful to have made it out okay. Sure, I'll have a fat lip for a couple days, but that's nothing compared to the heinous injuries we could have suffered if we had continued down the hill without brakes. It was by far the scariest thing that's ever happened to me. So, have you ever had a near death experience?