Well, the topic of the subject says: "Write about an event, competition or tournament you won or did it well", and I have made my life without too much competitions, Due to that reason I don't remember any... except a small competition when I was a child.
I was on elementary school, and it was august. In physical education class, teacher asked us to dance over stage to get score. It is hard to say that I was quite a good dancer and I was the kind of person that did everything except crafting class (which I'd really hate by that time); so when I started to practice with a beautiful classmate I had. I think I practiced two or three times with my classmate how to dance "Cueca". Also, my sister helped me sometimes, but it wasn't as good to practice with her as you might expect, because we were interrupted most of times in home, and that was certainly unpleassant.
I don't have a bad performance, but I didn't respect the twice spins with the "8" form, so I've got the second place with a diploma... and a kiss of my partner in "Cueca", so I was happy for a month.(Now that I'm thinking about this, I wonder when was the last time I thought so simple to be happy) I don't have any photograph and that diploma is lost by the time my house was expanded(When I was on seventh grade)
When you said competition, I had plenty of them in music. Some weeks ago I put a picture into another topic. It is usually to start a competition with other musician if you could learn by heart a melody, or make a certain one to sound it perfect.
When I around fourth or fifth grade, my mother said me that I got lost on videogames, so she asked in the church for an activity for me and I was forced to play keyboard. My mother didn't think I overcome the second week... As always, I closed her big mouth(My mother never says that she has faith on me, but is the first one to say me that she has given me "moral support". Sure...), and I started to play keyboard. One day during one of my practices, the priest in charge of the church asked me to play a certain melody. I remember I played "Ave María" made by Bach/Gounod and I did it perfectly, respecting the times and the melody itself. Everything by heart. That was all the necessary for the priest to choose me as the first keyboard player in the church.
The first time I did it with him, playing melodies together. It was funny. I kept playing the instrument around a decade. Then, I started with the university and I was fed up of catholic way of thinking(I didn't change my religion, but I'm not a good catholic). However, because of the church I could know some places, and play my music in churches as big as the Cathedrals (Santiago, San Bernardo, Valparaíso, and Concepción), and in big churches as "San Francisco de Asis" church. It is hard to play the pedals on a real church organ, but it is really great to notice that there are things that a normal man could not do.
I hope that I could edit this to add a photograph when I find one.
They are pretty cool achievements Fernando, even if you say that you have never won anything. Playing a church organ and dancing cueca are more impressive than throwing some darts at a board in a pub, even though I would still choose the latter ;-)
ReplyDeleteA couple of comments on the language: Did you mean "dance on stage for a mark"?; Be careful with the preposition "by" in time expressions. We only use it to express that something happened before a certain time (By 10 o'clock, I had phoned all the parents except one); Be careful with your tenses in paragraph 3 (Remember I've got is present simple); "or make it sound perfect"; "I was obsessed with video games"; "..didn't think I would make it past the second week"
There's plenty of good language here too.
I'm waiting for the photo :-)
They are pretty cool achievements Fernando, even if you say that you have never won anything. Playing a church organ and dancing cueca are more impressive than throwing some darts at a board in a pub, even though I would still choose the latter ;-)
ReplyDeleteA couple of comments on the language: Did you mean "dance on stage for a mark"?; Be careful with the preposition "by" in time expressions. We only use it to express that something happened before a certain time (By 10 o'clock, I had phoned all the parents except one); Be careful with your tenses in paragraph 3 (Remember I've got is present simple); "or make it sound perfect"; "I was obsessed with video games"; "..didn't think I would make it past the second week"
There's plenty of good language here too.
I'm waiting for the photo :-)