Personal Narrative - How I Got Into Gymnastics, by Emmalyn Michael

I was doing gymnastics classes and after a year of doing that they invited me to go to level three and I went. I was so excited they even let me skip level 1 and 2. But after school I had to move fast because school ended at 3:00 and I got home from the bus at 3:40 and it took me 12 minutes to get to gymnastics, so after school I had to go go go or else I was going to be late for gymnastics. And I had to go to competitions and I had to do a very hard skill. So it was super hard for me. At the end of the year when they invited me to go to level 4. I didn’t because it was going to be harder than level 3 so I didn’t go. But they said next year I could go back to level 3. So I was happy and sad, well I was sad because I had my best friends and they were all going to level 4 and it made me so sad. I thought I would never see them again, but I was happy because I just don’t want to relax in my bed watching YouTube on my iPad and I didn’t need to go to gymnastics even though I like gymnastics. After that year I kind of missed Netflix so I went back into it but I didn’t go to level three I actually went into level one, that was kind of fun and after I went back in for a week three I was so excited and now this year it has a different floor, beam, vault and bars routine. On the first date of the new level three there were some other kids that I didn’t know. I still like to know them. They all were very nice. My mom thought so too. Their names were Ashley, Layla, Cathrine, Ava, Alexa and GG. I only knew Alexa, she was in level 1 with me. And it’s now our first competition but only 2 of the 7 people were there. It was only me and Ashley because there was a snowstorm and it was big. And my coach told us that if we stayed on the beam we would get an ice cream or a pizza party. And we both stayed on the beam. So now Ashley and I have decided that we want to have an ice cream party but It won’t be a party because it’s just us 2 but I am kind of happy that It's just the 2 of us. It was a couple days until we got the ice cream but I was still happy that we got it and all my friends were really jealous of us. That actually kind of made me laugh. My friend Ashley got an Eminem ice cream and I got a chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. Yum! it was so good I ate half of it in the car on the way home. It was so so good. When I got home it was time to eat dinner but I still ate some more of my ice cream before dinner then we ate dinner. After dinner I ate the rest of my ice cream. In the next couple of weeks it was our next competition and 5 out of the 7 people were there on my team.

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