Assignment #2, 2

6. Fears or phobias

I've got a big fear. No, it's more a phobia really.

Sharks.

I. Do. Not. Like. Sharks.

When I was younger, like 10 years ago (I was then 6 years old) I had no problem at all with sharks. They were just a big fish to me with sharp teeth. I could even find it interesting reading about them, learning about how their teeth fall out and because of that they have three rows of teeth. A few years later, because of some unknown reason I started to dislike sharks. I really don't know why. My fear got worse and worse and three years ago (summer 2005) me and my family was at London Aquarium and in there they have a tunnel under the sharktank so we walked under there and there was this shark that swam over us, it didn't do anything, it just swam but still I felt a weird feeling and I had to turn my head away from the shark because it was too scary.

Two and a half year went by and last term we were going to analyse a movie in my English class and of course my teacher chose the movie Jaws. I thought "Okay, I'll try to watch this." I tryed and I wathed (what don't you do to get a good grade...) and I have still got dificulties sleeping at night. That movie really was the finishing touch for me getting a sharkphobia. If I see a sharks mouth (whitesharks mostly) open I almost scream and I turn my head avay from the picture/screen. When I'm going to sleep and I have just seen a shark (during the day) I can't close my eyes because when I do I see that picture of the shark and I can't stand that so I have to lay with my eyes open and wait till I fall asleap. It's wery tortureing and irritateing.

So please Kyle, never ever bring a picture of a shark to class if you want me to be able to focus in class and to be able to spleep at night.

Thanks.

Bye