Back again! And I have some exciting news...
A few months ago I entered a writing competition.
It was from 5-21 year olds. You had to write a story about "hope".
My story was about a girl called Ellie who lived on a horse ranch and really
wanted to be a barrel racer in the rodeo. One day her dad brought a quarter
horse home from the sale yards (a place where they sell horses, sheep and
cattle). But when he rode the horse he said it was too frisky to keep and that
he would sell Spirit (the horse). Ellie tried to tell her parents that she
could train Spirit to race but they kept telling her to stay away from him. But she didn’t listen to
them. Early every morning she would go to Spirit and feed him an apple. Until
one morning when her dad sold Spirit. But Ellie didn’t give up.Without anyone
knowing she made a deal with Spirit’s new owners that every morning she would
come and train Spirit to race in the rodeo....(and that's all I'm going to tell you!)
After I sent my story in it was about six weeks until we
heard from the judges. Guess what? I was in the shortlist! Then one week later
we heard from them again. Guess what? I was in the finals!
It is only me and
another girl (that I know) in the finals. But the best thing about being in the
finals is that you have to go to Australia for the prize-giving dinner!!!
I’m so
excited! I’ve never been overseas before. The prize-giving is in Brisbane.
Also, on the
way home from Brisbane me and Mum are flying business class! (We had to because the
other planes went from Brisbane to Sydney then back to NZ. That made eight
hours altogether.)
We are going in two weeks. Yippee!!!
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Have you ever been to Brisbane?
What are some good things to do around that area?
