The ground starts shaking because of the huge, green Tanks. I hide behind a broken down tree waiting to shoot, feeling absolutely horrible because I'm so worried I'm going to die.
I saw flashes from guns firing bullets that speed past me. The ground is muddy and wet and my feet start to sink. I see people running and getting shot. I saw bodies on the ground and blood. I saw people getting pulled into the rip when they try to swim to shore.
As I jump up to shoot I wonder where my family is. I wonder if they are going to live. I think to myself I can't die and I don't want to die. There are so many things I haven't done yet like ride a roller-coaster, go on a plane, rid a car. So I better live.
I'm extremely scared as I drop to the ground bleeding and then an ambulance comes. I feel the rain pouring on me. And i'm really tired because I didn't get much sleep last night.
Did you go to the inter-school swimming sports? Because we did. Tuhourangi, Tyler, Esther, and Reef got to represent our class. We got our awesome yellow and black Mahora t-shirts fitted and we were off, ready to represent our school.
They gave us yellow swimming caps and some goggles for us to wear when we raced. The swimming caps made you go faster in the water. We got firsts, seconds and thirds. Tuhourangi, Esther, and Reef got into the finals and placed.
It took so long for us to get called up because there were heaps of races. We heard lots of cheering while we were there. After the races we had some relays, there were 5 people in each team. Each school had a different place to sit. They had paddles with the numbers 1, 2 and 3 on them and when you won a race you were given one. After all of the races were finished we had a photo with all of the Mahora inter-school swimmers, hoped back in the cars and we were on our way back to school.
It was so much fun and we were all really proud of ourselves. Hopefully we get to do it all again next year!
