The first time my heart was racing. I've done it a lot since then though, so it doesn't bother me anymore. But man! That first time I was nervous. And few things make me really nervous.

I've done it once or twice since my first time, and now the worst part is stepping off the edge and waiting at the top.

Agreed. Walking backwards off the cliff and hanging upside down momentarily can be intimidating.

I've only done it on climbing towers, there's nowhere to rappel from where I live.

Ah. Well still. It can be intimidating the first time.

Yeah, especially when you're around 8 years old.

*has never heard of rappelling*

Me neither...

You haven't?!

*surprises herself by not calling on her Link Elves and retrieves her own link *

Here is what Wiki said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abseiling

Oooooohhhhh, abseiling. Yes, I know what that is. Hideous language barrier!

Bungee jumping?

It's spelled with an a rather than reppelling.

*laughs * Yeah, we all call it something different, don't we?

No, not bungee jumping.

Ohhh, that.

The thing you do after you are done rock climbing and you repel back down to the ground....yeah...I never had a name for that.

Or you climb up with it too.

They also show it being done from helicopters in a lot of the Army commercials, and maybe the Marines.

I haven't done much of what Varon said...I've been camping a couple times, but not real camping in the woods. I've only camped in a campsite a hundred yards from a major highway...doesn't really count
As far as what I want to do...oh goodness. It's a long list...here goes. Skydiving, SCUBA diving, snorkeling, riding zip lines, zorbing (rolling down a hill at 25 mph in a giant inflated ball), whitewater rafting, canyoning, surfing, camping, bungee jumping...the list goes on and on. Shouldn't be too hard, considering I'm going to live in a treehouse in the jungle

Oh and during my senior year, I want to spend a couple weeks hiking the Appalachian Trail

A tree-house in the jungle? That sounds really cool.