I wan out of my sight!!!

I am not an amazing speller like some of you all out there, but I just wanted to share my story about the 3rd grade classroom bee. I remember how nervous I was and the thumping of my heart, my first word was destiny and to me that was a sign that I was meant to win, I watched my friends get out on words like flexible and screaming in my head to them about how it was an I not an A. Eventually I did win just as I had predicted. I was very happy.

My dream began with an impromptu classroom spelling bee, but it grew with the help of a movie. This movie was Akeelah and the Bee. While this movie is a fictional docudrama, it inspired me to have a goal in my spelling bee journey and to believe that anything is possible. After watching this movie, I believed in my dream of making it to the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee.

I was one of the eight spellers at my school, PS99's, spelling bee. The first few rounds were easy, and nobody was knocked out. Then the competition started for the top 3 spots when someone was knocked out on "teacher". During the next few rounds the other 4 struck out, and I was returning over and over again. Then the race for school champion was on! I came in second with "mahogany", and someone else took the ranking of "school champion" with "avalanche". I was so happy, I was advancing to the 2018 Queens Borough-wide spelling bee.