Cross Country Narrative

“10 year old boys’’ yells Mr Burt . My five friends Wally Lewis, Stacey Jones, Brent Tate, Kevin Locke, Jarryd Hayne and I, with all the other ten year old boys, stand on the starting line. Bang Mr Burt shoots his gun into the air, we are all off . I have come second behind my friend Kevin Locke for the last three years but today is a day for change .

I have a dream, I have a path and I have a plan. I dream that I would come 1st in the Cross Country(Martin Luther King Jr’s speech). Kevin and I were neck and neck at the start but as we got to the fence he was winning. Suddenly he put on a bit of gas and he made the margin from me and him bigger.

As we got onto one the fields at the Pt England Reserve I caught up to him and he said to me “Waata you’ve gone faster maybe you can even beat me” I replied back to him “Today’s a time for change”. Unsurprisingly he took of and I shouted “ I knew you would take off ’’ .


Later on we both got to the fence that was close to the reserve we sprinted off going past the playground I was in front of him when he tripped suddenly I stopped picking him up, He said to me “why didn’t you win the race” I said I’m not a person like that I look out for my friends”. Then my other friend Jarryd Hayne came past us. He won the Cross Country me and Kevin came second equal.