Agitated and scared, I stared at the brown air balloon, the notion of heights frightening me from head to toe. I couldn’t believe what I was about to do. As we were about to go up, the air balloon stopped abruptly. Then, the instructor, David, kicked the air balloon. Up and away we went, into the beautiful sky. I was petrified, but my friends were there to get me through it. When we reached maximum height, I looked down at the ground 20,000 ft below, and my body just stopped in fear…