The events that I was doing was a poetry writing contest and a book battle. My poetry contest was the first on the schedule after that I rushed to the book battle room. A book battle is where a group of three or four students reads a list of twelve books and take a composition test on it together. My teammates and I thought that the was easy but we were the very last ones to finnish.
Once I had finished both of my events I was done for the day so I went into my hotel room and watched “The Amazing Spider Man” with a friend. At dinner time our whole group went to Red Lobster. There we ate as much as we could hold and took a grand total of seventeen rolls back to the hotel.
That night my friends and I got into our pajamas and watched a movie while eating our rolls.
In the morning the whole convention went into one of the auditoriums to hear the awards being called out. I didn’t win anything for poetry, but my group won first place in book battle. As I went onto the stage I couldn’t stop smiling. Our school got first place in two other events. That meant that the people events that placed qualified to go to nationals in Disney World. For the rest of the day my friends and I kept saying “We’re going to Disney!” because we couldn’t believe what had happened. And all the way home we held our first place