Everyone has a time is their life when they have shown courage. To me, courage is bravery or when you know what you are afraid of and you have to face that fear. When I was in America, I found out that my friends had been going somewhere after school on Friday. I had been wanting to find out for days until they finally told me what they were doing. They were cheer leading.
They asked me to join the team, so I thought a while, and then the next Friday I went to a cheer leading practice. Everyone was nice. But then it started to get serious and I got the cheer leading outfit and we had to practice routines a lot. We were cheerleaders for the Bob Cats and we did cheer leading everywhere. Soon after it started, my friends quit the team. I don't know why, but they did. Me and my sister were now in cheer leading without our friends. Then, the real thing happened.....we had to compete with other teams and I was so nervous.
As soon as I got there I could barely breathe. Everyone was there. The whole stadium was full, so full that people had to get 20 more seats until people couldn't fit in the stadium anymore. This was the real thing. As soon as we got on the stage we all looked at each other because we didn't know where to go. When we got in our positions we performed the routine that we had practiced. I was so proud of myself. After the dance, I threw up in the bathroom because I was so nervous. I feel sorry for my friends because they shouldn't have quit because guess what........... WE WON FIRST PLACE! I was really proud of myself. I had learned a big lesson and my friends helped me. That lesson was never quit. Quiting is for losers. That is so true.
This was a time when I showed courage. I decided to stick with the team until the season was over and not to stop going to practice because my friends had quit the team. I learned to cheer lead and found out I was not only good at it - but my team came in first place in the regional competition. While it took a lot of courage to keep going to practices without my friends support, I learned that I can do things on my own and that I don't have to the same things they do all the time. This is was a valuable lesson.
wow that must have been really hard to not quit did your friends quit because they were nervous? did you get a medal? you might want to edit it because cheerleading is one word but I love it!
ReplyDeleteQUESTIONS:
ReplyDeleteWere you interested in cheerleading? Did your friends forced you to even though you did not want to? Did your friends quit because the team kept on doing the same routines all over agian and there was a lot of pressure? Was this a sport or is this just to represent a sport team? If you was not that interested would you tell your friends you did not want to?
COMMENTS:
I think you should add a bit of figurative langauge in it otherwise some people won't want to read it cause it is not that catchy. I liked how you organized from what is courage then how it was like to be in a cheerleading team and how your friends quit and how serious it got. Then how scared you was in the competion and you threw up, how full was the stadium was then having a fabulous conculsion. The word choice was is ok because you put some words that are boring like,nice,they,a lot istead you could use loads, millions and other words. I like your style of writing because it fits with the topic like tell me what happened in the time you showed courage and your style is like story writing, but I think you should have slowed down time in how scared you was and how you felt when you won.
WHAT I LEARNED:
I learned that you used to do cheerleading in your old school, you was that scared in the stadium and you did not really like it because your friends quit.