The stone gets in the center, it’s curling, a Scottish sport where people are on ice and slide stones. The goal of the game is to get the stone in the circle. I had a field trip to go curling and I can’t wait and I want to see how different it is at school and at the field trip.  

It’s F day you have P.E. that stands for physical education. It’s curling and you can’t wait, I thought to myself that this was a great time. But we needed to watch videos about curling and the fun hadn’t even started yet. It is the next P.E. day we were still bummed that we did not do any games with the stones but we got to slide around on carpet squares.The next day we learned how to use the stones and slide them around. It reminded me of kicking a soccer ball and it rolling around. They were not real stones but they were shaped and ball bearings at the bottom but they were still fun. We learned how to push off of something we used mats but at the field trip we would push off a starting block that would be in ice. Then we put it all together, it was hard at first but we got used to it. We would slip and fall so many times but we would always get back up and try again. 

The day has come it is the field trip. It was so exciting I jumped out of bed, and I got to school. It was going to be a good day. I did my first special then it was time I got on the bus. The drive was 25 minutes. It felt so long and we had to go up these squiggly hills. Then we had to walk down this big steep hill then we came in and saw the other class curling. The instructors told us to go where and made our groups, my group was Zoe, Josh, Dillon, and me. I thought that this was going to be a really good team. Our instructor made us try to push off the starting block. I went first and the stones were heavy and we needed to hold something that would not make us lose balance. We had to use brooms to sweep. We met our competitors and we lost their stone was the closest. It was okay though we lost two to one and we shook hands and said good curling. 

There, now you know all about my experiences with curling at school and at the field trip. Curling will take a while to get good at but that is why people of all ages can do it. So if you are near a curling club it is a great experience.