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Scarier and Scarier
by Kfir Markus, Amal "B" Comprehensive School, Petach Tikva
The best amusement park I have ever been at is "Six Flags - Great America" in Gurhee, Illinois. This park is so big that it's very hard to get on all the rides and maybe even impossible, but with a lot of luck you can sometimes get on all the scary rides.
In Six Flags there are more than ten roller coasters, each is different from the other in a way. The best rides are "Batman" and "The Shockware," which are very fast roller coasters.
Shockwave is a fast regular roller coaster that does 7 loops in less than 40 seconds and Batman is a roller coaster in which you are sitting buy have no support for you legs and the move fast in the air while you're moving, spinning and twirling in the air.
Another cool ride is the giant drop which basically is a big round pail with seats that climb up 200 feet up to a point where you can see the entire park and then drops you down in less than 5 seconds.
Another one of my favorites in the "Dare Devil Dive" which is almost the same as bungee jumping except three people jump at the same time.
The last one is probably my favorite because it was the scariest and the most dangerous because it wasn't a closed ride and has a lot of room for fatal errors. Not that I didn't enjoy all the other rides in which the waiting to go on the rides was longer (up to 2 hours for a ride).
This article previously appeared in The Amal B Star - The Student Newspaper of the Amal "B" Comprehensive School, Petach Tikva, May 1998.
© 1998, Amal Pedagogical Technological Center
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