Practice 1-2: My Personal Favorite Story

I have a lot of interesting stories that I have told most of friends. Most of these stories have all the same friends in them, but they are all very different stories.

Here are some of my stories:

1) Getting my scuba diving license
2) My first cross country practice
3) Going cliff jumping

My favorite story that I would choose to break down into the hero's journey would be story number one, getting my scuba diving license. I chose this story because it is the one that I remember the best, and I believe it resembles the steps of the hero's journey.

Ordinary World: I was enjoying my summer vacation with my friends and planning to go to a summer camp.

Call to Adventure: I had the opportunity to get my scuba diving license.

Refusal: I was hesitant about signing up once I found out that it would be a lot of hard work and very challenging

Meeting with the Mentor: I didn't really have an official "Mentor" but my two good friends, John and Colin, convinced me to sign up. They were going to get scuba certified as well, so I felt it would be easier to go through it with my two good friends.

Crossing the Threshold: The best example in this story of crossing the threshold is going on the actual summer camp.

Test, allies, enemies: I didn't really have any enemies, but main test throughout the training was just completing the training and/or tasks that were assigned to us. Some of these "tests" were on how well we remembered all of the safety terms and procedures. The more difficult "tests" were the ones in the water where we had to do a number of different drills that we needed to do well in, in order, to proceed with out training. Some of these included being able to hold your breathe for a specific time while exhaling under water; we also had to be able to share air with another scuba diver if we ever ran out of air. My "allies" (John and Colin) and I would motivate one another during these drills because some of them were very challenging on our first attempt.

Reward: Our reward after making it through the drills and training was to go on two open water dives in the ocean. These two dives were amazing, we got to see all kinds of different fish and it was just a totally different experience when compared to the pool that we were practicing in.

Return with Elixir: I guess in this scenario my "Elixir" was my scuba diving license which I had earned by the end of the training.