First Swim Meet. Scared Scared Scared!!!

  In Humanities, I am reading a book named "Call it Courage". This book is about a boy named Mafatu, the boy who is afraid. He was afraid from the sea because of his mother who died in there but he wanted to win himself so he decided to run over his fairness. He went to another island and survived there with his dog friend Uri. This book really tells about "Courage". And today I will be telling you about the time were I showed courage.

When I showed courage I was in the beginning of  4^th grade in The International School of Kuala Lumpur (ISKL) and I just had the first swimming competition against Mont Kiara International School (MKIS). Usually on the first swim meet in the year we stay at our own pool and Mont Kiara kids come to us.  I was really scared on that day, I felt like I have never swam in my life.

As we were waiting for Mont Kiara kids to arrive we had to do our warm up. Before we finished the warm up Mont Kiara kids were here. We got out of the pool and Mont Kiara kids went in. When I sat down on the floor, my stomach got butterflies thinking about losing the races or something bad like that. All these thought ran through my head like racing cars. I got so nervous. But I pulled myself down and tried to enjoy the first swimming meet. I thought to myself if I might as well lie down on the floor so I don't have to think about all these bad thing that could happen.

Event 1, 2, 3,4,5,6, and finally event 7 came that was my butterfly. “Oh No,” I said to myself. I got my card, the card that they record the time on and waited. Then we had to go on the block. As I stepped on the block my heart pumped so fast and the butterflies in my stomach grew bigger and bigger. Ready, Set, Go. I jumped in the water and started swimming but as I jumped my goggles fell off in the water and I couldn’t see that well. That made me go really slow and after a while my swimming cap fell off too. That made me even go slower because my hair was long and if you have long hear, that slows you down.  And after I finished the race I started crying. Then my father said to me that what happened is normal for swimmers and I did a great job. He also said that that was all because of my fears. But for my next race with was breaststroke, my favorite stroke I overcame my fears and I got first place and I got a gold medal. That was one experienced I had when I showed courage.

 I think one of the ways to show courage is to overcome our fears. Like what Mafatu did, we need to overcome his fears. I think we have a lot more meanings but this is what I think. Showing courage is important to our life.