LOughborough UniveRsity
MY SPORTS DAY
SPORTS DAY
31.08.2013
Namaste everybody.
This is my story about this year’ s annual Sports Day. The competition was held at University of Loughborough. I played in the Junior Girl’ s Badminton tournament.
We had to report at the sports centre before 8 o’ clock in the morning, which was very early, so my father and I decided to travel the day before and stayed at my foiba’ s house in Nottingham. There was so much traffic on the motorway that day. It took us over 4 hours to get to Nottingham and my foiba and fuvaji were getting worried that we had not turned up. We got there eventually and I played with my cousins and we had dinner. Then we went to sleep early.
My dad woke me up the next morning at 5:30am( it was still dark outside) and my cousins were still sleeping! I was very, very sleepy but I managed to get out of bed. We had a big breakfast and set off to Loughborough. This time, the M1 motorway was very quiet with no traffic and we got to the venue quickly( YAY!).
We were the first people from London there as my dad had all the wristbands for the London players. I helped my dad to collect entrance fees and I gave out the wristbands. The competitors wore gold / yellow wristbands and the spectators wore pink wristbands.
Then I had to go inside and sit in the main hall with lots of other competitors. There were lots of young kids like me and lots of older people like my dad and there were even some very old people there like my ma and bapa( but they were mainly spectating).
I played in the badminton tournament with 3 other girls; Divya from London( aged 15), Henna from Tameside( aged 14) and Saieesha from Leicester( aged 12). Divya was the best player( she had won first place last year). They were all older than me. But I did not mind as I just wanted to take part. But I did score many points and they gave me lots of encouragement. I really enjoyed my games and felt like I was playing at the Olympics. One day when I am older I might be a champion now that I have practiced at the Sports Day.
After my games, we went to look at the other sports. They were great fun to see and everybody was having great fun. I think some of the footballers weren’ t having fun as they were swearing a lot- I bet their mums don’ t know!
I met many relatives too. Some were playing and some were just watching.
We had to leave just before the end so I missed the raffle and my chance of winning a Kindle fire! I also missed the trophy presentation so I will have to check the Sandesh magazine to find out who won.
It was a long and tiring day for me and I fell asleep in the car on the way back home to Watford.
I can’ t wait to play at the next year’ s Sports Day. I am going to join the badminton club at my school and practice a lot so I get better every day!
My head teacher at school asked me if I had a good summer. I told her that I played in a tournament with about 500 competitors and over 1000 spectators. She was really amazed that I had a chance to do that and said that I was very lucky.
Hope you liked my story. I used to be in the journalist club at my junior school so I like writing.
I hope to see you at the next Sports Day and hopefully I can win some matches and also write another article!
Junior Journalist Rupa Mistry
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