ANTICIPATION

-

 


 It was a cold and windy afternoon. Me and my class had just come back from recess. I thought we were just going to come in and pack up to leave. I was wrong.

     " Today I will announce the students that will be moving on in the invention convention. There are three students that have made it, more than any other class. " My teacher told us.

     I suddenly got butterflies in my stomach. Was I going to make it? would I go on? Or would I lose? The suspense was killing me. My breath got hot. Soon my whole face was hot. I was nervous.

     " Our first winner is A.J.!!!!!" My teacher said. 

     We all clapped. Would I get that applause? Or would I not? I was not sure. I thought that I did pretty good with my: Re-CO, Reusable COVID 19 test. But was it enough? I could not tell. 

     " Our next winner is...." My teacher stopped for suspense, " JORDYN!!! " 

     Everyone clapped even though Jordyn wasn't here. We were all proud of her. But my hopes were sinking. There was only one more name to be called and I now I had no hopes of getting picked on. There were around 16 kids left to be picked and it was most likely not going to be me. 

     My butterflies were going crazy in my belly. It was like they were having a dance party in there.  I was even more nervous than before. [ And I did not think that was possible. ] 

     " And our last student that will be moving on to the states is..." He stopped again for suspense, " WREN!!!" 

     I was so excited. I had won. The applause seemed louder than it had been before. I looked around and all of my friends were clapping and smiling. I could tell that they were happy for me. 

     I smiled under my mask, hoping not to seem to excited and get anybody else down. But I was excited. It felt like all of the world was clapping for me. 

" This is how it must feel to be famous!"  I thought to myself.

     I was so excited to tell my parents, and my grandparents, and my aunts, and my uncles, and my cousins, and my sisters, and everyone!!! I was excited. 

     The only part that was not that exciting... was that I would have to do is all again.  

Comments

  1. dmsherriffApril 13, 2022 at 4:58 PM

    "The applause seemed louder than it had before". I love this moment. The moment when you not only realize you have won, but that your friends and classmates were happy for you. What a special moment for you and CONGRATULATIONS!! I'm clapping from here, can you hear me??!!

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Locked

-
  It was a dark and breezy winter night and I was coming home from my my mom's friends daughters dance recital. I was so much fun and everyone did great! When we got home we parked the car in the garage and we ran to the door because we were so tired.  My sister opened the door and said,¨ It is locked.¨ Everyone tried opening the door but it was definitely locked. No one knew what to do, but my mom unlocked the car and we all went in, except for daddy. ¨Can I honk the horn?¨ I asked Mom. She said no. We were sitting in the front seat because we never get to go in the front. I kept touching all the parts of the steering wheel, trying to find where the horn was hidden. We started opening compartments and touching the mirror. We were actually having fun. HONK!!! The horn finally honked and everyone laughed except for mom.  ¨ I told you no.¨ Mom said. ¨Wait!¨ I screamed I was looking out the window at dad. And then suddenly I started to laugh! ¨What are you laughing at?¨ My s...
Read more

The ¨ Farm ¨

-
¨ I love the farm.¨ My sister shouted at us, and I felt pretty much the same. We were going to a farm on a random day so I was a little confused. My mom and dad never let us go places for no reason. We all got in the car and we went in the car for a long time just driving and driving. Then we reached ¨ The farm.¨ but the farm was not a farm. It was a bunch of plants in a greenhouse I thought what was that we are at a garden. My mom said that it wasn't exactly a farm she said it was more of a garden with animals. We walked to the greenhouse to look at plants for relatives for Easter. We found quite a few things. We looked at Garden toys but we couldn't really find anything so we went outside in the back. There were ducks walking on the path but they were gated up they were in a cage though. Then we looked in a cage and there were peacock a few goats that my sister was really excited about because she loves goats.  Then we went back inside to look at flowers in the other house. W...
Read more

Dance

-
  An anxious feeling filled my body as I sat patiently, waiting onstage for my numbers to be called. “ You did great in all of your dances,” I told myself. " Why are you getting so nervous? It won't change anything. “ Thinking this just made the anxiousness get worse. The awards had just started, and my first number had been called. “ Featherstone… Platinum.” The announcer called. This was my contemporary dance, my favorite dance this season. In case you didn't know, your dances were ranked with Gold being the lowest and then going High Gold, Platinum, and then Diamond being the highest. My friend Madison went up to retrieve the trophy and pins, and I smiled in relief that we did pretty well. After a couple of dances, one of my dances was called again: “ Sweet Dreams… Diamond.” With this being called, all of my nerves left me, and joy perked up right there in its place. “ Sweet Dreams”  was my jazz dance, and I was proud of everyone in the group because we had made much pr...
Read more