Athletics, High-jump

Tension was in the air  as the last, and hardest sport neared.  We had just finished 100m sprints and were making our way over to High-jump.  I watched as the last of the year 5 boys made their way over the bar, which was around the height of 1.8m.  Arthur made it over smoothly, though the next made their way into the bar, knocking it down.  

Matua Nick explained the rules, which was mostly about cones, and then started the rights, my sides line.  I Watched as people got over, and as people knocked it down.  sooner than I thought, it was Alivia's turn to jump, she ran, she sprant, she... knocked down the bar. Then it was my turn, I jogged, it turned into a run, then a light sprint.  My right leg flew up, and I suddenly felt confident.  I made my way smoothly over the top of the bar and landed perfectly on the big, fat, blue mat.  I ran back, exited.  Than one after one all the other girls failed, except for Charlotte M, my rival. 

Charlotte was on her orange cone, with 2 more lives, while I was on my green, full with 3 lives, like at the beginning.  the bar went from 1.5m to 1.10m.  I ran, I sprinted, I skimmed the bar.  It wobbled violently, as I watched, my nerves on end.  It didn't fall off!!  I ran back to the green cone.  None of my lives had left me.  Charlotte ran, and... knocked the bar.  She was on the cone with holes in it now. she took her jump she made it over!  It was end on end now, 1 life V.S. 3.  

The bar was moved up to 1.15m.  I ran, I sprinted... I once again skimmed the bar.  It wobbled.  I hoped with my whole heart it wouldn't fall off, my life depended on it.   It stayed standing!  Now Charlotte ran, she... knocked the bar.  that was it.  Matua Nick told me and Charlotte to sit next to Lola And Alivia.  We watched as the boys all fell down rankings until the winner was unveiled.  Matua Nick then announced the placings!  " For Year 6 girls, First, Charlotte A,..."  

My heart leapt, I had won!!  All the rest was drowned out by the cheering that was coming from within my body.  

Quickwrite

This is my, this week´s quickwrite. This is not real, so don't worry.  Hope you Enjoy, Even though its a tinny bit violent. ENJOY...

Why did it look like everybody wanted her to make a Speech?  ¨-a... hi.  I am tsuami, wait, No.  TSUNAMI.¨  She settled her wings down, but made sure to give a flash of her royal pattern.  Then she heard a splash.  But not a down splash, an up one.  She looked up, and saw the royal patterns.  Mother, her head acked, just wanting to see her face.  The giant, sea blue dragon, tilted Its head in Tsunami's direction.  ¨My Baby!!¨ cried the queen.  ¨How long has it been.¨

 It was more a statement than a question.  ¨nevermind, nevermind. It doesn't matter.¨ she said, ¨why, how un-bejeweled you are!!  HERE, HERE.¨ she said, handing over her own, biggest, pearl necklace. 

Well, that's the beginning of it. At least. Ever since then, Tsunami has found out many more secrets about her mother that were not good.  Such as, her mother had a secret weapon.  Her own daughter.  She didn't even care that Tsunami's sister, Anemone, Might lose her soul, and go evil like her 2000 year old ancestor, Albatross.  She had found out, also, that she would leave dying warriors standing there for an entire council meeting.  She decides to lie, and chain up all of Tsunami's friends in a cave and leave them to drown.  She found out her mother would yank out another dragon's teeth, one by one, for failing. Then smash them against the solid rock, killing her. OH, Noo.  What if I become a queen like that? Like mother...

Gymnastics festival

I can't Believe it! The Gymnastics Festival was on Tuesday, and we got callbacks!Box was up first, and so was I.  We each, (Me, Lola, Charlotte, Alivia, And Aria,)  had one warm up, and then, BAM!!  I was over, and it was done!  I sat down and watched as Alivia, Lola, Charlotte, and Aria Each made it over.  Charlotte's score 8.4.  So was Lolas.  Then there was Aria´s, If I hadn´t already told you, she's a really good  gymnast.  Her score was 9.4!!! (Out of 10.)   Next we had beam.  Aria was so good at it.  She did her routine flawlessly.  Lola and Charlotte forgot the Arabesque, Me and Alivia remembered it and did it pretty well. I forgot our scores for the beam. Last but not least was floor.  I was up first, again. I could tell it was way to short, but they still gave me 8.00. That was good enough for me.  Aria was the best, and Lola, Charlotte, and Alivia did it well to.

After about 2 or 3 hours we had rhythmical.  Alivia was our cheerleader, Even though she forgot to cheer. We did our start, and our end, and all of what was in between.   While we did our bow I could hear the crowds cheering.  Somehow, we got into callbacks, and it was amazing fun.

Callbacks were on Wednesday night.  We had to wait for about 2 hours and 20 minutes.  We got to watch all the best gymnasts as a group, and as a solo.  We were about the 3rd to last act.  The crowds were even bigger than last time, and the cheering was thundurus.  the reason the crowd was bigger was because the intermediates and high schools did it to, and most people in every family showed up.  It was extremely fun!! bye🥇

Intense Times

With the Gymnastics festival edging closer were working harder than ever.  We only have 3 days of practice left, I've began practicing Day in, and day out. With A-Grade in the morning, and rhythmical at morning tea, and lunch, Were doing a lot.  All the free time we have is going to gym.  

My Rhythmic teacher is panicking, because we don't know the entire dance yet.  We've booked out the gym for friday, 12.40 pm-2.15 pm.  Our dance is getting better, and we have a few more tricks.

Our practice is getting more and more squashed because were rushing to finish the dance.  We practice quite often now, as we do all the things we need to.

I can't believe It!! In A-grade, we know all our routines of by heart. YAY!!!  We started learning it and practicing it last week. Only 5 people from our school are in A-grade, and yet we all got it so Quickly.  Aria is soooo dainty with her beam, and floor.  We ALL just stare at her while she practices.  she's much better than the rest of us,  she's the best in the School!!  I'm getting more and more nervous about my floor routine, we have, well, had, to make it up!!

With so much going on, all of it based around gymnastics, people are getting more and more nervous.  I wonder how it will all turn out.  Tune in next week to find Out!

Our school!!

Gymnastics Fun

 This week me, and the rest of my school have been focusing on gym.  The Gisborne Primary schools gymnastics festival is coming up, and we want to be ready.  We´ve all chosen the group out of A-Grade, B-Grade and C-Grade.  (There's also A reserve but no one is in that group.)  We´ve been training for about 2 school weeks now, and we are getting more, and more competitive.

This year I chose to be in A-Grade and Rhythmical.  Rhythmical is a sort of gym dance.  I started off as a back up, but improved so much, I think, that I´m in the actual dance!!  Maybe  I was the whole time, Who knows?  Well,  we´ve learnt most of the dance and a couple of tricks.  It's really exciting to be learning so fast in so little time.  We've started needing to bring our water bottles to practice.  Lola's the ringmaster, and Aria is doing a very cool trick, in the middle of the dance!  

This morning I had my first A-Grade practice.  When it was just us, Lola, Alivia, Aria, Charlotte and I  there, in the hall,  Charlotte, Lola and Alivia and I  were trying to learn how to do a front handspring, Aria was our instructor. I didn't have much luck, Lola managed some, and Alivia and Charlotte were very close.  When our teacher came in to teach us, we practised the beam.  I am by far the worst at it, Especially at getting on.  Then we practised the box.  No one had much luck at first, but we all got there. We did the straddle jump.

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