I have a horrible time waking up in the mornings, so Monday morning I tried something different. The alarm that tries wakes me up is an annoying beeping that i tend to ignore. So I switched from that awful beeping to a radio station. It worked! I woke up right away, and the music helped me to stay awake.
It wasn't just music that I was listening to though as I got ready for school. There was a very interesting news story that caught my attention and seemed unbelievably creepy.
The broadcaster was talking about Marie Joseph, a 36 year old woman who drowned at an American water park recently. What made her story so interesting was all the details. Joseph was only at the water park to help supervise some of her friend's children, and couldn't swim at all. She went down a water slide with a nine-year-old boy, and never surfaced. The boy reported it to a lifeguard but no one responded.
Then Joseph's friends left the water park. They didn't look for her, and even left her stuff at the park. The staff locked the park up, and still didn't notice her body beneath the water. Joseph's body was not found for two more days. This means that the staff had to open and lock up the pool without seeing her. And also people were swimming around her dead body for those two days.
Even the health inspector didn't see her, and he made two visits to the pool in the time that Joseph was floating in it. Her body was found by some kids when they broke into the pool after hours.
I can't imagine something like that happening, and I was shocked when I heard the story. I mean, yes she drowned and that's horrible, but her story just got worse and worse.
Why didn't any of the six lifeguards on staff respond? Why did the boy not speak up when it was time to leave? Why did Joseph's friends just leave? Did other swimmers even notice her? And how could you lock up the pool, repeatedly, without noticing her body??
The whole incident is being investigated, and hopefully they will be able to answer these questions. Joseph may have been forgotten and ignored for those two miserable days, but she will never be forgotten again.
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Very interesting story. You were able to give the information in a concise manner. I also liked that you made your own comments and questions trying to make the reader (me) think and wonder why that would have happened.
ReplyDeleteCrazy Story. You told the story in a really good way and ur personal comments helped me understand the story better.
ReplyDeletei also liked ur paragraph structure, it didnt bore the reader, or atleast me.