That year I was eleven and in sixth grade. In Wethersfield, all sixth-graders are 1 to take part in the R.O.P.E. Program. Its main2 is to believe your peers (同龄人), work together, and3 new adventures. These programs including falling backward and4 peers to catch you, working together to fit into a small circle and something of that kind.

I was ready to participate in these5 . Falling backward and fitting into a small circle were nothing to me. Crossing over a stream with nothing holding me up but a rope was daring, but I could6 it. Finally the day came when my sixth grade class would travel to climb and rappel (绕绳下滑) a mountain in Southington. Those people who were too7 were allowed to practice climbing and rappelling a smaller area of rocks, but that wasn't for me. I could climb the big mountain.

Twenty minutes later, my8 arrived. As I was well9 , I set off at once. I got a quarter of the way up but couldn't seem to get any10 . I tried and tried. I began to put myself down and cry. There was nothing more11 than my classmates were looking at me. All I kept12 was "Lisa, you can do it. Try to fit your foot in there.13 , Lisa you're almost there."

It was then that I thought to myself, "Why am I crying? I can do this." Almost 14 I went on going up the mountain. Within five minutes I successfully 15 to the top.