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[Wincentia Wu]

To the Top

I groaned as I hauled myself up the horse and tried to find a place on the saddle where my bottom didn’t hurt.
The mare snorted and clattered up the hill.

As we walked, pearly white snow was beginning to be more noticeable. It seemed like the snow was just
growing and growing.

We were going for, what seemed like forever and I had just gotten used to the saddle until our riding instructor,
Kate, told us to dismount. My bottom was sore but I still patted Trinket, my mare and soothed her.

We set up tents reluctantly and crawled in for a rest. Soon, Kate called us out for supper. Finally, I thought, food!

For supper, we each had a steaming bowl of mountain stew which filled us up quickly. We dragged ourselves into
our tents and finally fell into a dreamless sleep.

“Rise and Shine People!” called a familiar voice. I moaned as I crawled out of my tent and had some leftover
stew. As I gathered my tent up, I fed Trinket some oats to give her energy for the day. Seeing her just reminded
me of how sore my backside still was and I groaned inwardly as I brushed her.

Slowly, Kate led us further up the mountain and gradually, we were trotting. “You’re getting better!”
I looked up and saw Kate smiling at me. I blushed deeply and looked at Trinket’s mane. I loved it when
Kate told me things like that because it meant that she was proud!

The day went by quickly and I was loving horse riding more and more. After supper, Kate told us that it was
only one more day until we reach the top and we cheered, taking our good thoughts with us to sleep.

To my surprise, as well as Kate’s, I actually rose from bed early. Kate had found me feeding Trinket and held
in a shout of surprise. I could tell she was pleased.

To take my happiness further, I was finally getting over the soreness of my bottom. I finally found the saddle
comfortable as I mounted my mare.

We were surprised when we actually got to the top because it was faster than we would have thought. Kate and
I found the sunset magnificent because we were above the clouds. The clouds turned golden as we watched the
sun sink down the horizon.

As we went to bed, I thought, these had been the happiest moments of my life because I had managed to
get to the top of a mountain and most importantly, I had grown to love horse riding!

Note:
This is an year 6 class writing task with allowed tiem 20 minutes.
Task: “I’ve succeeded – at last!” (2009 July class writing task)
Time Allowed: 20 minutes
Remarks: Teacher scored 10/10 (full marks)

[凝泪成珠]

健康漂亮的小美女,象春天的太阳一样美丽哦~好喜欢!

[巫逖]

[霞光依依]

——书香门第，才华横溢！
——好一个巫老，好一个诗画俱美的小敏洁！！

[海外逸士]

應該被培養成為作家。

[it was faster than we would have thought]
用HAD THOUGHT就可以了。

[巫逖]