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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
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I couldn’t, I just couldn’t climb this big hill. When I started climbing I saw a spider fighting with a cockroach that made me very scared. But after a while I could hear a bird clearly and when I looked down I could see my Mum’s red top.
But when I looked back up I freaked, “aaaahhh!”. I remembered what my teacher had said, “if you feel scared, you can always count to ten and take three deep breaths, close your eyes and then carry on with what you are doing.
When I opened my eyes I felt proud to be up at the top of the hill. I looked down and thought, gosh, if Mum and Dad were here they would have seen the view from up here!
I climbed back down, then I ran over to Dad. “Dad! Dad!” I said, “thank you for letting me climb a rock face for the first time. Thank you!”
- By Lata
“I dare you!” Ben and I said.
“No! Why do I have to lose,” I asked, “so what do you want me to do, Ben?”
Ben answered, “maybe you could climb one quarter of Mt Everest.”
“No way!” I growled.
“If you don’t, I’m never going to play with you. You can fail if you want,” teased Ben.
I stomped outside.
“Here I go,” I groaned to myself.
I grabbed the first rock. It felt freezing. I grabbed the second one. It was actually even colder. The higher I climbed the colder the rocks were. I climbed and climbed until a snowball fell on me. I felt like I was in -100ºC. I almost lost my balance. I couldn’t believe it. I saw another rock that was about to fall on me. I thought, a snowball already made me lose my balance. Rock is harder than snow, maybe that could kill me. I freaked out. I let go. I fell! I thought I was going to die.
Luckily I climbed just a short way where the ground was covered in snow. My friend Ben was nearby and was watching all of it. He shouted “FAILED!!”. I was angry that I had not succeeded, but as long as Ben still played with me that was okay. I am going to play I dare you again.
- By Campbell
I was one quarter of the way up the cliff. Once I look down I got freaked out. I yelled as loud as I could.
Then I whispered to myself, I can do it. And could do it – I knew because I was already midway up. “That’s it! I can’t take any more,” I said out loud. At that moment I saw my Mum at the bottom and heard her yelling to me, “you can do it!” Also at that moment rocks we falling from right where my feet were. I was about to fall.
I put one foot up and then the other. I did it again and again and I really, actually did it!
- By Aarushi
I carefully stretched out to grab a rock and pull myself up. I was with my Mum and my sister at the face of a cliff. When I touched it it was bumpy, lumpy, and also a little bit grassy. When I started to climb the cliff I wasn’t scared because I was wearing my harness. If I fell, my harness would have caught me. I put on my harness and started to climb.
I was halfway up the cliff. But I could not see my Mum or my sister. When I looked down, the ground was so small and they looked like baby ants. I carried on with my climbing. When I was almost at the top of the cliff I grabbed onto a loose rock but I didn’t notice it was loose. I stopped and lifted my left hand and let it relax while I was still hanging onto the face of the cliff. I was relaxing for a while. I soon started climbing again, but then I wriggled the rock and I finally found out about the wriggly, jiggly rock. I tried reaching out to grab a solid rock but I fell. I started to scream so loudly that my Mum and my sister were shouting to see if I was okay. I started laughing and said, “yes”.
I finally got to the top. I was so exhausted so I lay down and puffed and huffed. I was sweating too. Later I got down safely by looking out for loose rocks and being carefull about where I put my hands and feet.
- By Losa
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Have a read of our latest narratives! We wrote in the first person and tried to describe what our character was seeing, hearing, feeling, and thinking, so that our reader could get a clear mind picture...
Click, click. I’m clicking my harness on. I was at the bottom of the mountain. Then we attached a ladder to another ladder. Soon I was halfway up the mountain. I saw rocks: big rocks, little rocks. The grass was swaying. Soon a hard log hit me. I started falling down and I stopped. Then I held on to a branch and was thinking, what will happen if I slip?
- By Aidan
I wondered, will I climb up this mountain? My mum and dad were worried about me falling down. When I was climbing happily, a spider landed on my arm and it bit me so hard that it distracted me, but I didn’t slip. Next I climbed a little bit and slipped a little bit. I was starting to feel worried when I was climbing up. When I got to the top I was feeling proud but I thought to myself, I will never climb a mountain again.
- By Herbert
I was climbing a rock face. A rock was loose I was very, very scared and frightened. My heart was beating louder and louder and louder.
I kept on going up over more and more rocks. I was scared that the rocks were going to fall on me. I got up to the top of the cliff. I thought I was at the top of the world.
- By Isaac
I was climbing up Mount Everest. About halfway I saw a person who was half skeleton. He was still wearing his shirt. I’d heard on the radio that he had got stuck up the mountain and died. I tried reaching him, but I was too scared. I didn’t know what I was doing. Then I fell to the ground. I just couldn’t move a bit. My mum heard the thud and came over. Then my mum rang the ambulance. I had to stay in the hospital for ten weeks.
- By Jarrod
On a sunny hot day there was a girl called Lara. She had beautiful pink dress. She had a white headband and she wore pink shoes. She was at the rock climbing walls. Her mum was watching her. She climbed on pointy shiny rocks. I feel like I’m on top of the world, she thought.
Just then she saw a spider. Ahh! Help! She lost grip of the rock in her hand and slipped. Her safety belt carried her weight. Her mum took her off the climbing wall. She hugged her mum very tight. The girl thought, I’ll never ever go on the rock climbing walls ever again.
- By Katharine
I was ready to climb the cliff. People were watching me. When I was climbing rocks were falling down and a rock cut my arm. It really stung.
My hands slipped off the ledge that I was holding. I was scared that I might fall and die. People were shouting out to me from down at the bottom.
The person that had my harness pulled me down safely and I was really proud of myself because I had climbed really high. I hugged my mum really hard.
- By Tyler
I climbed a rocky hill. I could see some grass and I could hear my mother and father shouting at me. When I had climbed a little bit, my hand slipped off. I felt scared. At last I climbed up the mountain and rolled down the grassy side. I felt happy but a bit scared.
- By Simon
I worried that I would slip at the next rock. I realised that there was a line of red liquid dripping from my arm. I took my arm off to touch the gash. I first thought the position I was in was stable, but it wasn’t. I started to fall. I had pebbles falling on my head. My t-shirt got caught on a rock. I climbed back up the cliff, but I still needed help.
I saw a rock, some weeds, and a stick. I chose the rock and threw it on my dad’s car to set off his car alarm. As soon as it hit the car it went, weee-ooo, weee-ooo! The windscreen was smashed. My dad rushed out to see what happened. He was really mad about what I had done and also mad that I had smashed his car. He didn’t have any insurance either. He yelled, “you’re going to have to pay for my windscreen!” As soon as he said that, I went pale and I said to myself, “oh great!”.
- By George
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