Last Wednesday, 29th February, I had my gymnastics competition! Me and 5 other people went: Milly, Ruby, Taye, Abdrahim and Charlie. Our gymnastics teacher, Mrs Yates, has a baby called Holly, so she drove to the competition place, Canons Leisure Centre, Madeira Road, Mitcham Surrey. As for us, Ms. Perrin and Mrs Langtherd came and we got on the bus 200 to Mitcham and walked the rest off the way.
When we first got off the bus, we were all chattering with excitement. We were all very nervous and we each told our stories about how we felt the past few days and how we felt that morning. Milly was hiccuping that morning with nerves and I had nightmares about us coming last. Ruby just listened to us and the boys messed about.
When we got there, I compared it to what we all thought looked like. It was nothing like what I thought of in my nightmares! The centre was massive and had 4 stations. We met up with Mrs Yates and her parents who came to take baby Holly away.
We walked like gymnasts to station 4 to warm up. Milly fiddled with her hair clips because her fringe kept getting the way until Mrs Yates came to tie her pony tail all over again.
After we warmed up, a nice lady called Tanya came and introduced herself. She told us about the 4 stations, station 1, Floor exercise, station 2, Vault, station 3, Body management and station 4, the rest and practice area. First, a different lady came and did some stretches with us, then, we walked to station 3 to do our Body management with another school. We carried on until lunchtime and by that time, we'd finished.
When we'd all finished our lunch, the judges announced our scores. Garfield came first! So, we got a trophy, but, it wasn't gold, it was silver! There were also individual awards and no one got all 3, but only two people got all 2, a girl called Roxy and ME! We all skipped back to school proudly with a happy smile on all our faces.
