The Gods and Sons'
Squash Tournament
Santiagoand science fiction. (Seventh grade) likes to draw and play
Caicedo In his free time he Santiago enjoys reading
fantastic literature
videogames.
For the first time on the last 30 centuries we have gotten permission from Zeus to do and
share an activity with our sons and daughters.
“Are you happy about the squash tournament that your uncle Zeus organized?”
“Yeah, we can finally spend some time together without escaping from everywhere.”
I was really happy, by this time tomorrow we will have to win! I will practice a lot so
tomorrow we will classify to the tournament.
“And the couples are !” I was hoping that Ares and Clarisse weren’t our partners, but
they were. “Team Poseidon against Team Ares.” I had practiced a lot, let’s start the
match. We passed to the final as easy as I am describing it:
11 to 9 against Ares, 1 5 to 1 4 against Hades, 1 3 to 11 against Hera and finally 11 to 0
against Hermes on the semifinals. The final match is between Poseidon team (Percy and
Poseidon) playing against team Zeus (Zeus and Thalia).
We ran out of time on the first game with a result of 5 to 4, defeating Zeus. The second
match was a tie. There were many kicks, like nicks or drops but after a 1 2 hour second
game, the referee called a tie, 0 to 0. We could have had to beat them so that the
accumulate score was not 5 to 4.
“We are losing, we have to play better.” –we both said
The referee called our attention and made a few announcements; as Zeus chose where
to play and what advantage he wanted: playing at the Everest and using lightning
rackets. We chose to play at Hawaii and use our Silver trident-shaped water rackets as
our advantage.
During the next seven days we did nothing but get prepared to play at Hawaii. We did
some safety modifications to our rackets and practiced some tricks that we could use so it
was easier to play.
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