Dear Diary,
Today was the Worst day ever.
What was I thinking?
“Turtle!”. That’s what they kept calling me. Sports day will go down as my worst day in my school career.
Today was sports day. I decided to sign myself up to do it. I decided to do a particular event called ‘The 200 metre sprint’. I was definitely not the fastest runner but I did this race so that I help out Miss Bullock with availability. I wanted to help her out because all the other spots were filled up and I did not want out house to lose out on points because we didn’t have enough people. Even if I did bad on the race then I would still get more points for us then not being on the race. So I thought to myself “Why not do it, I’ll give it a go”.
Sports day was the worst day ever and it will haunt me for the rest of my life.
It was getting close to 12pm and 12pm meant that it was Year 9’s sports day. Everyone was buzzing in lesson and could not wait until sports day.
It was 11:59 and everyone was on the edge of their seats. The bell ran and everyone run out of class as if they were Usain Bolt. My heart started to pound with adrenaline. I could not wait until I am on the start line.
15 minutes later, 200 metre sprinters got called up. I got super excited. It felt as if my heart is about to explode from my chest.
I got my last stretches in. I was ready. Mr Clark called my name, “ Kevin Cheeseman, you’re fourth lane for this race boy, good luck”. A few butterflies started to fly around in my belly. 30 seconds later, everyone is in position and Mr Clark shouts “ON YOUR MARKS” “GET SET”, then it seemed like years but then suddenly he shouts, “GO”.
Blood was pumping through me like never before.
40 seconds later…. I was last place.
Everyone got between 24 seconds and 30 seconds.
And I got 40.91 seconds. How embarrassing.
My face started to go red. Everyone was laughing at me. I could he things like : “Turtle boy”, “Certified Walking turtle” and “Was that even a sprint or a jog?”. I absolutely hated it. No one wanted to sit next to ‘Loser Kevin’.
What really made me sad is when someone shouted, “No wonder they call you cheeseman”.
I helped out Miss Bullock and our house but at what cost.