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Perceptions Narrative Writing Paper It all started in the year 2010 and only at the age of 10, when I was in the 4th grade and was attending Pine Meadow Elementary School my English teacher said that we were going to have a spelling bee. I did not think that I had to study for the spelling bee even though she gave us a list of some of the words that were that were going to be in the spelling bee, and the teacher said that all the students have to be in the spelling bee. The night before the spelling bee was going to happen I was not nervous about it, and did not study any of the words that were on the list because I thought that they were not that hard to spell. Also because I thought that I was one of the smartest in my class so I was going …show more content…

She then started in the front of the class, which I sit in the back of the class so I had a little time wait and see what other words my classmates have to spell. One by one she went and every kid in my class seemed to spell the word that they had to spell perfectly and nobody in my class got a word wrong. Then she said Jason and the room got quiet it is your turn and she said that my word was February and I was so scared because I had no clue how to spell that word because that was the hardest word that was on the list and I thought that there was no way that I would get that word because there were so many other kids in my class that the odds of my getting that word was so low. I stood at my desk and I could feel that my face was getting red and my palms were sweating and the was an awkward silence in the room and then all of a sudden I said F-E-B-U-A-R-Y and she said sorry Jason that is not how you say February and the whole room was silent and in shook that I could not spell the word February. I felt like I was going to cry and I felt like I could have done a lot better and that I felt like I let my self down by not doing so well on the spelling bee As she kept going through the list of words that were piece of paper to finish the spelling bee I thought to myself that I probably should have studied for the spelling bee even though I thought that it was going to be easy and

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