Creative Writing Competition

In our school, we had to participate in a Writing Competition in which we had to write a story, following the instructions given in a photocopy. During the Language class, our teacher Andrea, told us to pick one of the options given to write a story about it. It should have a limit of words of 180. So I chose number 1, and I started writing…
(My teacher congratulated on the use of Past Perfect)

Newlands Creative Writing Competition
Instructions: Choose one of the following subjects to write about.
Intermediate

1)    Write a story which contains this: “I will never forget that day”

2)    How did he dare do that to me?

3)    We should be more concerned about the dangers of social networking.


Yesterday I had the worst day of my life. I was just starting as an ordinary morning. I was going to have an exam that evening, however, I wasn’t prepared! I couldn’t study as I’d been in a party the day before and I’d arrived late and tired. So, while I was having breakfast and putting on my school clothes I was desperately studying everything I needed to know.
When I arrived at school, the class had already started. I sat down and I started copying and studying at the same time. To make matters worse, the teacher scolded me for arriving late. After that, I spent all day, class after class trying to complete my summary, and more than one teacher scolded me.
At midday, I left the summary under the desk, so I could have it ready for revise it before the exam.  However, when the time came, I had lost my summary. It had disappeared from the desk. I will never forget that day. All that effort and work just for nothing, down the drain! That horrible sensation that you know you’re going to fail no matter what. I know I didn’t do it well, but I still don’t know what happened to my summary…