I’m a star! (by Jenna, 6a)

- Oh gosh, I groaned.
- You beat me again.
Anne and I often played with marbles. I usually lost.
- Maybe you’ll win sometime, Anne comforted me.
- Maybe sometime, I muttered, but it was easy to guess that that day would never come.

Next day at school some of my friends and I fixed a date for a marblegame evening. It would be fun. We agreed that the gang will buy new marbles for the winner.

The long-expected evening came. We gathered to the schoolyard and made sure we were the only ones in the yard. Anne was the first one to throw her marbles and she got quite bad positions. Anne gave way to Tytti, who threw next. Tytti’s marbles had better positions, closer to the line. the purpose of the marblegame is to throw three marbles as close to drawn line as possible, each player in turn. Anne had red marbles, Tytti yellow, Mikko green and I had blue. Now it was my turn to throw. The first marble stopped in the distance of 1 cm from the line. I’ve never thrown so well! The second marble stopped right on the line and also the third one rolled to the line.

After Mikko having thrown his marbles we detected that only Tytti had thrown as well as I. So Tytti and I had a replay. I threw the first marble to the line and also the second one, but the third sank  into the sand quite far from the line. It was Tytti’s turn to throw. The first of  Tytti’s marbles rolled to the drain. Tytti was about to give up, but we didn’t let it happen. She threw the second marble to the line but the third one, unfortunately, rolled down the nearby slope and we couldn’t find it. So Tytti lost the game which meant that

I was the winner!

We bought new marbles for Tytti, because she only had one marble left.                     Back