a bear. The bear was huge. He had a very big body with long and fat hands and legs. He was looking at me with his horrible and furious eyes. I thought he was going to attack and kill me for food. I knew that the bears were really hungry during this period in the Arctic. I began thinking how I could survive. I remembered our survival lessons, when the teacher told us what to do when you accidently met a bear. But I was so frightened that I couldn’t remember anything. The only thing I knew was not to run and panic. I had to concentrate and calm down. I knew I could die, but I didn’t want to. The bear started moving close to me. I froze. I couldn’t move. While I was standing and waiting for the bear’s attack, I heard a strange loud noise behind me. As I understood later, it was one of my friends who had woken up and had seen me and the bear and started making the strange noise. He shot in the air more than 5 times and the bear frightened. It ran away. I was still standing on my place shocked and I was unable to move. After five or ten minutes, when everybody woke up and ran up to me, I realized that it was a very dangerous situation. My friend helped me and saved my life. After this incident, we decided not to be alone in the Arctic.