By Lizzy Nasar All her life, Melanie wanted to be on the gymnastics team. That was her main life’s goal. She went to Aerial’s gymnastics every Friday, to practice. She asked her coach if she can be on the team one day. Her coach replied, “You can be on the team, if you practice more….
By Sophia Kastika Sarah’s goal is to become a fashion designer. She designed a dress for her friend, but her friend didn’t like it. Sarah didn’t want to be a fashion designer anymore, but her mom talked her into trying again. While she was making the dress she thought of her mom’s words, “if at…
By Aliza Chornyk “Uhh, this is so frustrating, I just can’t land a cartwheel properly,” thought Sara. “I’ve tried. Landed on my knees, hands, but I still can’t land on my feet.” So she gets up and falls about 50 times and starts feeling like she’s got a concussion from how many times her head…
By Irwin Shaab There was a boy named Ely who was 4 years old. He wanted to build a big sand castle at the beach. The next day his family and he went to the beach. He took his shovel, bucket and put sand in the bucket with the shovel. He dumped the bucket…
By Nathan Botton It was a sunny Sunday morning and the crowd was cheering as I dribbled the basketball up the court. I juked out two defenders and jumped as I shot the ball in the air. The ball made a swooshing sound as it went straight into the net. The crowd went wild. The…
By Joe Betesh I have experienced many embarrassing moments in my life. One that really sticks out has to be when I started to make videos. Starting out, I made videos that were horrible. Kids made fun of me and told me that I should give up. Instead of listening to them, I worked even…
By Penina Nikforuz Sara was good at everything that she did and had great talents. The only thing that she couldn’t get was math. She always struggled. Many times tutors were not able to help her out. For her getting in the low 70’s on math test was amazing. She always tried to do her…
By Danielle Edery Michael was in a basketball and every time he went to shoot the ball he missed and everyone laughed. But Michael went back in the game confidently and when he shot he missed again. He still didn’t quit. He shot the ball one more time and he got it in. He didn’t…
By Esther Sutton Two girls stood behind the curtain at their ballet recital. “I’m next. I can’t do it. I just can’t,” one girl said to another. Her friend responded, “Of course you can. What is stopping you?” “Don’t you remember last year’s show? I tripped and fell and what if it happens again?…
By Orly There was a girl who read Hebrew very slowly. One day she was reading Tehilim to the class and everyone was huffing and puffing because they were so bored. So she never raised her hand to read Tehilim again. But, then she realized it doesn’t matter if they don’t like it, she kept…
By Joe Zakaria Five seconds left in the basketball game, they’re down by one. And he got the ball. The pressure was all on him. But he drove to the basket and he missed the easy lay up. He was devastated. His teammates were mad at him. He left the court with disappointment. His parents…
By Adina Charnas Let’s say it’s the first day of school and you’re new to a school. This year is a good way to make friends. So, you start off looking around seeing who you can introduce yourself to. Then you see in the middle of the class a group of girls laughing, so you…
By Yitta Bracha Weinheber Sara is a very good singer. She is going to sing in a very big concert. Sunday was her 1st performance. During her performance she spaced out when it was her turn to sing. “Sara”, the director called out in a whisper. “Oh,” she thought, “How embarrassing.” She began to sing….
By Shimon Kadosh One day Chaim said to himself, “I am going to get a touchdown in football.” When he got a pass he quickly dropped the ball by accident. All his classmates started screaming at him. The next day he stayed on the side by recess until a kid came to him and told…
By Shimon Kadosh In my camp, many years ago we had a play which I had part in. after weeks or practicing, the day of the play finally arrived. I woke up that morning with such feeling of excitement and nervousness combined. My mother drove my friends and I to the auditorium where the…
By Teera Ades One day, Adina was in gymnastics class. She was with all of her friends. She was always behind on what they were learning. Her goal was to do cart wheel on the balance bean. While she was trying to do a cart wheel on the balance bean, she fell. All of her…
By Sophia Hindy On a Friday afternoon I was baking muffins. I felt very good and accomplished about it. But when I tasted them, something was wrong. Before I could tell anyone they shouldn’t eat, they already did. They told me it was fine, so I wouldn’t feel bad. But I knew the truth….
By Sol B. Making mistakes is part of life and the reason for most people’s success. I’ve endured many failures, but one in particular stands out. It was a freshman year and I had to take my first global test in high school. That night, I studied as much as I thought was enough to…
By Suri Knoble My niece Raisy is three years old. She is trying to learn the ABC’s and she really does not know how to. She starts singing and she is really confused. She keeps trying and she still can’t. So, she gives up. A few weeks later she tries again. She got a little…
By Steven Hafif When I first started my sophomore year in high school I made the decision to try out for the hockey team. I was excited; I bought the equipment and started practicing weeks before the first game. By the time my first game came up I was bursting with excitement. Arriving early, I…
By Sruly Akerman I am in a choir and one time the head of the choir was looking for a kid for a solo. He picked me to try for a solo. But he gave it to another kid. I was gong to stop trying but I practiced a lot and next time he…
By Simcha Braunstein When I was 8 there was an older boy in camp who I admired because he was a rocking pitcher. I decide to try to be as good as him. Every day I practiced. By the league I pitched and it was terrible. We lost almost every single game. First I got…
By Raizy Cohen Closer. Almost there. As soon as I touched the blue brick I panicked. I felt as if I was asphyxiating, so I shot up as fast as I could. This was the sad sequence of events every single time that I had life guarding. I had been trying each Wednesday to retrieve…
By Chaim Shmaya Ovstatcher One Thursday afternoon I went fishing. I was there for 2 hours and didn’t catch any. I was deciding whether I should stay or give up and leave. I continued for another hour, I didn’t catch anything. I was embarrassed. I ran home. The next day I went back, but this…
By Florence D. In life, there will be many challenged thrown at us, but it is our job to overcome them. Last year a friend of mine hurt my feelings and did something unforgivable. This was a very hard obstacle for me to overcome. I am sure that most girls fight with their friends and…
By Sholom B. Hunger I had a goal to win a race. At the beginning of the race I thought I would win because I was ahead of everyone who was running the race. I started to fall behind one person, two people, three, four, very soon I was all the way behind. But…
5. Leslie A. I was in my bed thinking about a fight. Someone was going around telling Lashon Hara and the person that they told it to, changed around the words and told someone else, and it started even a bigger fight. I was saying to myself, I don’t want to be that person. From…
3. Sylvia C. How to encourage yourself to stick to a commitment? Let’s say you want to commit to going to sleep on time and you try it out and it doesn’t work for you. You should try hard and push yourself to do it. When you commit to something it is better for you….
2. Shirley H. One time I said that I would pray to Hashem every single weekend. I tried but my Yetzer Hara always pulled me back. So one weekend I woke up early and I prayed to Hashem and I felt so good. Now, every single weekend I do it. I feel so proud of…
1. Violet C. Something happened to me that I didn’t give up was when I kept trying and trying to make roller coaster with my brother. We tried 17 times and it never worked. Finally on the 18th time I put the last piece on and it finally worked. It took us 2 hours but…
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