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200 New Words

     Good news people!  I toke the 3rd place in my school’s Spelling Bee Competition!  That’s exciting, that’s amazing, that’s believing that we can.  Two months ago I was refusing the idea of the competition, and now I lived the competition.  We have a lot of fears, one of my biggest fears was spelling a long word correctly.  And now, I… finding words of what I feel right now might be hard, so I’ll just leave it to you to decide.      We had to wait for six hours for our turn.  Because we’re the older ones so we have to wait.  I was really shocked to see the 1st graders spelling words.  They’re really good, those girls are only six or seven years old, and they were spelling words that they didn’t know about before!  I think that they believed a lot in themselves, and they got what they deserved.      My first word was martyr (m-a-r-t-y-r).  I was really thankful for having that word as my first.  We finished really fast!  The girls from the other school weren’t that good, but we h

Maktoob

    ‘’Something has changed within me, something is not the same’’ -Defying Gravity.  Allah, my mother, my teacher, and the World had helped me a lot, and  now its my turn to pay it back to them.       There will be a Spelling Bee Competition at our school in five days.  They’ve told us about it two months ago.  I was really angry about the idea, ‘’Really?  A spelling bee?!’’ I thought in my mind.  Words weren’t really important for me, spelling was nothing for me too.  But… When I saw the movie Akeelah and the Spelling Bee, one month ago, I knew that I can be great at spelling.  I knew that I can love words.  But I was sure that I can win.  If spelling is my biggest fear, then why not make it something that I love?  I can face that fear and win…      Yesterday, something strange happened.  Or let me say it was ‘’ Maktoob ’’ to happen.  I started to have some nightmares toward the competition.  There’re some brilliant girls, there’re girls who live to spell and learn, there’re girl