MORE BEATRICE…AN EXTRACT FROM MY WIP

It’s National Writing Day. So to celebrate, here’s another extract from my Middle Grade WIP, all about a bookworm called Beatrice Wild, who wants to be brave, but finds living up to her name a little…tricky!

12:06pm

We went to our first camp meeting this morning.  I felt a teeny bit nervous walking in.

And then it got worse when Chris said: “Welcome to Camp Conqueror everyone!  We’ve got SO many exciting things planned for these two weeks together.  And WE’RE GOING KICK THINGS OFF WITH AN ICEBREAKER!”

Aagh! Everyone just GROANED!

Seems I’m not the only one who hates ice-breaker games. Honestly, they make me so nervous – I practically come out in a cold sweat.  The good thing was though, this icebreaker did involve eating SWEETS!

It was called the ‘QUESTIONS’ game.

We had to pass round a bowl of colourful sweets and pick one each.  But we weren’t allowed to eat them straight away!

Then, Caroline blue-tacked a list of colour-coded questions on the wall.  So, if you picked a green sweet, your question was: Name a place you’d love to travel to?  (Olivia, got that one – and she said, Japan, which I thought was a really interesting choice).

If your sweet was red , your question was: What’s your favourite book or film?  If only I’d picked red!  That would have been super easy!

But of course, I had to go and pick YELLOW. 

If your sweet was yellow, your question was: “What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to you?”

I MEAN WHERE TO START?  Embarrassing things seem to happen to me ALL the time.

Who in their right mind wants to share their most embarrassing moment in public?  I mean, if it wasn’t EMBARRASSING enough the first time round?!

So, I racked my brains and tried to think of my least most embarrassing moment.

And that was the time a Sea-Gull swooped down and stole my sandwich when we went on a school trip to Hastings.

 YES, THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO ME!

As soon as I shared this, everybody just burst out laughing.  Which I’m not sure is a good thing or a bad thing. And I’m pretty sure I blushed a bit. But I think it broke the ice anyway.

Then Dylan Bird, got the same question!  And he said his most embarrassing moment was when he went to score a penalty and his shoe flew up on the school roof!  It took the caretaker half an hour to get it back and he had to hobble round the playground in his sock!

WAH-HA-HA!

 I guess embarrassing things happen to us all.