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A Moment In Time - Examples

WATERWISE CAPSIZE!

“Hiaiaiaa...ihaaaaaa...hiaiaiaia...iaihaaaa...” I breathed heavily. I shut my eyes and held my breath as the yellow optimist healed over backwards into the midst of the ocean.  “Bang!” My hard head connected to the rock solid opti.  

I hastily opened my eyes and, “YES!” I screamed with all my voice. I was inside the tight, squishy air pocket.  It seemed pitch black at first then my eyes got used to the darkness, when I screamed, “HI!” and then slapped the boat.   

“Slap, Slap, Slap,” and in return,  “Tap, Tap, Tap”. 

They opened the opti to the light as I swam out. “I made it!” Those words came out of my mouth before I knew it.  I climbed on to the bottom of the opti (which was now on the top) and I pulled on the centre boar. The boat came speedily up right and I had to bail a truck load of water outof the opti and back into the ripply ocean.  It was finally all out so I jumped out and played the ball games.

By Peter, aged 10.

RUGBY

As I run down the left wing of the pitch, salty sweat runs down my face. The grass tickles my ankles. Only two huge boys stand between me and the glorious tryline.

I get nervous as I keep running. I sidestep the first boy but he holds tightly onto my shirt. The second one grabs my waist and drops me heavily onto the ground. My shoulder is the first thing that hits the hard, solid ground, then painfully my body follows it down.

Sadly, my coach takes me off for the rest of the game.

 By Taine, aged 10