Here I was ready to run, had my water in hand. Ready, Set… Here it is …GOOOO! I ran as fast as I could. My goal was to beat two or more boy classmates. I reached gate 1, phew! That was so exhausting; I had at least a minute water break, and then started running again. While I was jogging, I saw Elizabeth from Grade 4. I actually started talking to her. She told me she wanted to be one of the placers, then I started running off, going ahead of her. 

I saw my dad standing with a camera, taking pictures of me, near 108, while I jogged. My heart was pounding fast; I could hardly breathe, because I wanted to win. When I was near the school, I saw Rit ahead of me. I tried to run as fast as I could to get ahead of him, but we were just leveled. I heard my mom cheering.” GO KARAH, GO KARAH”. I kept on running and running till I was ahead of Rit. I never dared to look back, till I reached the finish line, YAY!

When I sat down I could hardly breathe, I was so exhausted. When Rit crossed the finish line, he told me he sprained his ankle, there’s always a reason, huh! I thought.

A little later, everyone gathered at the assembly for the announcements. First they announced the participants. And then they announced who are the 3 placers, for category “Grade 3 & Grade 4”, and “Grade 5 and Grade 6”. For “Grade 3 & Grade 4 girls”, the winners were: first place Napisa from Grade 4, Second Phimlada, from Grade 4, and for third place, it was none other than…ME!, from Grade 3, Yay! In my head, I really thought I won’t make it, but I actually did. Third place wasn’t bad for a “Grade 3” at all… and a “first time runner” too.

From that day onward I was never scared of becoming a loser.

I was in Shimonoseki where I had never been. We planned to go to the shopping mall with mom. My siblings and I were bored so we went somewhere else and told mom, “Lets meet here at 9:00 pm.” My siblings and I had fun but when it was 9:00 pm we ran and went to the meeting place.

We waited for 45minutes but mom wasn’t yet there. We went to the public phone but we had no money! Luckily my sister had my grandpa’s public phone card but, IT HAD NO MEY IN IT EITHER!

My oldest brother ROM got an idea. He said if we go back to the hotel, mom would find us! We argued with ROM but we had no other choice so we did it. It was our first time in that city so we weren’t even sure if we could go back to the hotel! So what we did was remember the places we passed like a nice garden, a big house, etc. After all that struggle YES! We found our hotel.

We waited in the hotel for another 45 minutes. We were bored as a person stranded in an island and also scared as a person in a haunted house. After a while we got an idea to ask the receptionist to borrow the phone. But she was using the phone so we waited until she finished her call. When she finished her call she asked us, “Are you children of Mrs. Rieko? We said yes, and the receptionist called my mom back saying we were at the hotel. We were so happy that we almost shouted out loud. 

Every day after school we, Rit and I worked hard to practice our lines. Mrs. Abbie always used to correct us for our pronunciation. Mrs. Abbie also told us that you have to keep eye contact with the audience, otherwise they will be bored. We practiced about two weeks.

Finally that day arrived and I was so nervous. When I entered the auditorium in AIT Conference Center, Mrs. Abbie told me to have a last practice before the program starts. The practice went well and finally everyone started entering the auditorium and we stopped our practice. When everyone was seated then we started our program. When I started speaking everyone was staring at me and I thought I said something wrong, but when my part was done everyone started clapping. I was so happy and felt normal. I wasn’t shy any more and I made no mistake plus in break time my classmates told me well done and said good luck to me for the 2nd half of the program. The 2nd half of the program went excellent and I felt so proud of myself because I learned through this experience never to be shy and always try my best.

I went to a big Island called “Koh Chang”, in Thailand. Even though I live in Thailand, I don’t live near the beaches and the Sea. So it was a vacation. I had a friend with me, more like two families. My friend’s family and my family.  My friend’s name is “Siddharth” just like my name. So I call him SS and he calls me SA. We went in our car. But our car went in a BIG Ferry. We went to the same hotel and we stayed next to each other.    

We ate Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner together. We went to do events together such as, going in a nice boat (which was my favorite part), Snorkeling, and since it was Songkran time so a lot of water splashing! The boat I was talking about earlier had two floors and a ready set of Snorkels. So that we can go snorkeling later on. As I was saying about the Snorkels, the next thing we did was obviously going Snorkeling! 

It was so FUN! I figured out how to Snorkel while my mum was spitting out water every time. She had no clue how to do it. It wasn’t that easy though. Because you had to Breathe with your mouth under water.

The fishes were swimming around me and I got to feed them too! I fed them with bread. Speaking of food, we ate lunch next. The people that worked there gave us food. Then after some time of a nice ride we were allowed to swim in the Sea! There were some kids my age and they jumped out of the second floor of the two floored boat and I joined them! That was the interesting part! I jumped and jumped until I got tired. We were quite high in the air so when I touched the water the water started going in my nose. We were using a lot of force which brought us really deep in the sea, but I had to swim up fast to get air before I started drowning.

 We stopped near a small Island for a break. I put my snorkel on and looked in the sand deep underwater but when I touched the sand gently I found something very cool. It looked like an explosion in slow motion. It was fun to watch it but I was curious for more things. There was another boat and it had a big slide on it with soap! I wanted to do that and I did! It was really fun because, the slide had soap and it started from the second floor of the boat. I flung in the air quite high! One person went on the slide and when he went he did a backflip while in the air! 

It was a fun and nice time there. So I definitely recommend it to you! There isn’t only swimming there in Koh Chang, there is enough space to get lost too, so take care because it is really big. Be sure to check it out!

I decided to ask my grandmother if I can ride the treadmill. She was ironing clothes. When I asked for her permission she said, “Yes, as long as you are careful.” I was excited because it's my first time riding the treadmill. Then she got the treadmill key and attached it to me and the treadmill. She turned on the treadmill and told me to set the speed but not very high.       

After riding the treadmill for a short time, I got excited and increased the speed level. It was getting very fast so I started to run. Then I increased the speed level again and started running faster. I ran so fast that I slipped to the front of the treadmill. I was hurt pretty badly, especially my bottom lip and my upper tooth. The bottom lip was bleeding and the upper tooth was cracked       

Then my mother and my grandfather came and told me that I will be going to the hospital. My grandfather drove the car and went to the nearest hospital. My grandmother didn't go with us because she was going to take care of my brother.    

We arrived in the hospital and registered for the checkup. We waited until we were called by the doctor. When we were called, my mother told everything to the doctor. The doctor gave my mother a mouthwash that would stop the bleeding from my bottom lip and said if it doesn't stop, my bottom lip will be stitched. The doctor left the cracked tooth as it was because I was too young for it to be removed. Then we said thank you to the doctor and went home.

When I went home, I immediately used the mouthwash the doctor gave and the bleeding stopped after around an hour.

I learned that if I'm doing something for the first time, I need to be careful and shouldn’t rush. If I didn't do it carefully, an accident might happen.

When Tosita invited me, I was scared to tell my parents because they are strict. I declined at first but 2-3 days later, I made up my mind and tried to not get scared to tell them. They allowed me to go but not to sleep there. 

Tosita, Jennifer, Paradee, Mesawadee, Sirisopha and myself went to Tosita's house in the afternoon. We did all kinds of fun activities like playing games in the computer, making gummy candies, etc. First I was not allowed to sleep at the sleepover but because Tosita’s mom talked to my grandma explaining that it's safe for me to sleep, she allowed. 

When the time was about 21:00, we started to take shower. We put on our night clothes and preparing to sleep. It was almost midnight and everyone was still awake. So we decided to play with dolls without letting the adults notice us. We slept at around midnight.

After we woke up, we rushed downstairs to play more games. Some of us went to get food while the others went to play games. Then, Tosita’s mom told us to go take a shower and get dressed since we were going to the temple. We got dressed and went to the temple. It took about 15 minutes to go there. After we were done with the temple, we went to get some ice cream and headed back to Tosita’s home. Our parents picked us up while Jenny slept with Tosita for 1 more day. 

It was a very fun and exciting experience to hang out with my friends. I am also really glad that I told my parents about the sleepover before I missed it. It made me realize that you need to have courage to tell people about things and if you missed a chance to do something, then you missed it forever.

When I knew he was out I would not come out of my house. 

So another normal day I was playing Pokemon GO and I was walking around my villa so I can hatch my eggs in the game. I was with my friend Shaw, we were talking to each other and Shaw was on this thing called the “Hover Board”. Which doesn’t even hover, it just has two wheels on a board. 

SUDDENLY out of nowhere Kenji came!!! 

At an instance I was scared, but I gradually calmed down inside my body, but on the outside I looked fine. I noticed that if I don’t calm down then Kenji won’t calm down as well.

Maybe next time Kenji is around I won’t get scared as much as I used to be.

 

When it was my turn to be the ‘it’, I got really scared because of the dark. In the first round, I cried so we restarted the game. The second time, we decided that I can carry a flashlight around while playing.

 

After I finished counting, the already started game started. I searched the bedroom but, no one was there. I walked around the third floor until I heard a weird sound. It sounded like someone was tapping on the wall or the door. I searched around the house for the noise. When I walked near the dressing room, I could hear that the noise was coming from the wardrobe. My heart was beating very fast and I thought I might even have a heart attack. I started to cry again. Then the noise stopped. The wardrobe door opened and it was Jennifer, Tosita, and Paradee. 

 

After that round of hide and seek, I don’t feel scared playing hide and seek in the dark and it made me feel more comfortable in the dark.