One day Luwana and I entered a dance competition (a duo). We had trained for hours a day, we had a very casual song ‘best day of my life’ it is the best song to choreograph to, well that’s what I thought.

It was the day of the competition we were so nervous because we had to go up against Grace and Aria, Katie and Hannah and another group Esprey and ruby. Everyone was so pretty but really didn’t match, we were the only ones that looked exactly the same, we wore a pink and purple tutu, black shirt with a horse printed on the front in pink, also black leggings and our hair was tightly done up in a bun with a cute pink and purple thing that you would usually place on a present that was in our hair. Our whole outfit looked amazing, I loved it. We thought we had no chance against Katie or Hannah because they are amazing dancers and Hannah is the daughter of the dance teacher.

It was time for the duos presentations Katie and Hannah came in 3^rd Grace and Aria came 2^nd Esprey and ruby were 4^th and finally we came ahead of the rest 1^st OMG we came 1^st we got GOLD EVERY ONE, WE GOT GOLD! We don’t get that very often, well because we don’t normally enter any comps. It was the best feeling to know that we could do it. Getting a gold is excellent literally but it is important to remember others feelings and not to gloat, I think I forgot that when we had gotten the GOLD medal. Knowing that we can do well, good choreography and dance skills is only one part of it; it was also the smiling (facial expressions) and enthusiasm that got us a higher score.

At the end Miss Leo was giving out the class awards e.g. jazz, tap, tiny tots and more classes included. I was in jazz (modern) and we were all discussing who we thought would get it and of course no one thought of me well that’s what I thought, so while everyone else was whispering I was looking straight at Mel and waiting, waiting for her to say my or someone else’s name I crossed my fingers and kept on staring straight at Mel. And guess what she said “Carlee” OMG” I couldn’t believe it, well I could I was a really good student for Mel and always on time and tried my hardest to stand out. I love that trophy and I still have it along with the gold medal. My heart was pounding for quite a while, after I sat back down my heart calmed and I think my heart had stopped while I was up there because I could not feel my arms or legs. I went home jumping up and down the excitement never did go away.