Month: May 2021

It had taken days for us to reach the sea. No one had ever traveled outside the walls for this long for fear that the giants would eat them. But as suspected, most of them had been eradicated during the battle, the battle where 291 brave soldiers died… That battle was 4 years ago, only nine were able to survive and continue to live. No matter now because we’re the first humans to ever go outside the walls and actually see and touch the sea. There was also a dock and a strange-looking tower there and we wondered what were they for…

I never have a favourite book, it’s usually is a favourite book series. Nowadays my favourite book series is The Tickety series because it has just the right amount of every genre such as horror, mystery, action, adventure, Fantasy and there were a lot of plot twists. It was the perfect book for me and it occupied me for a long time and it was only 3 books! Set aside those books, the other book that is equal to The Tickety is The Dark Lord Clementine because Clementine (the protagonist) acts like a boy and I like it when writers don’t portray characters the way society does (I also like her fashion sense).

In the holidays, I didn’t really do much but go to town every day because my mum had to get sponsors for something I’ll tell you about later. She dragged me to town every day. I hated it because I had nothing to do and so I went on my phone and watched on Netflix a lot and this caused me to lose a large percentage of data :(. Fast forward to Sat May 1st. It’s the big day of my taekwondo tournament. We’ve been preparing this for ages because this year our club was hosting the South Island Championships. We had to get up sooo early and I still need to survive a whole day. the thing that makes me the sleepiest the most are taekwondo tournaments. Not only was I sleepy but I was nervous because it was my first time doing patterns and I was up against good veterans, luckily I wasn’t the only one that was up against these superstars, I was with Emily and believe it or not but she was more nervous than me. She was my comrade and my enemy on the mat. You see we were both doing individuals and pairs”Could we please have Kimberly L/N*, Ferj L/N, Courtney L/N, Emily Chan and Benya Dogterom come to mat two.”, echoed the woman on the speakers( all from my club). I was nervous, so nervous that I could feel the heat from my body blazing when I clapped for the other contestants. The caller for the mat called me to the centre. I waited while the judge wrote the scores for the presentation of my uniform I tried to calm myself by staring at the purple line that was on the tv*. The mat caller signalled for me to get ready and… Go.

 

Once I finished my 2 patterns I could walk off and let the 13+ red belts do their patterns. Straight after was the pairs. There were 3 pairs all from our club. In the end, I got silver for individuals and gold for pairs and now I feel more confident doing patterns.