Looking back on that day, we all agreed it was my greatest victory.

My victory started when one day, my grade one teacher came to my class. She introduced and recommended me to represent my school to join a Beautiful Writing Competition of my city, Hanoi. While I was thinking, she was impatient, so she didn't wait me to answer, and then wrapped my wrist to come to her class, which was the place that I practiced my writing for that big competition. From that day, she became my coach. My arduous training started...

Everyday, I needed to come to her class while my friends were playing happily in the school yard and then I came back with a big stack of paper. When I came back my class, I thought my hands were broken. My friends all said that I was happy, because I represented my school, but I didn't think so.

One day, like every afternoon, I came to her class to practice. Her grade one students left at 4.30 p.m, and I left at 5.00 p.m. When I nearly done, one of her student's parent came to give the school fee, and he saw me. Surprisingly, I couldn't believe that he said to my coach :"Is this a student that didn't pass the test so she couldn't  jump up to the next grade? Poor her!". At that moment, I just want to cry. My coach just answered :"Oh, she come to ask me about her homework. She is a grade five student!".

Finally, the competition came! It was really cold, but I just wore my school thin uniform. I got in a room, with other students from other schools.  Then, a woman started to collect our paper. I saw many students had beatiful writing, and I thought I could never be the first, the second or the third place of the competition.

A man went to the pulpit, and announced loudly the result. I closed my eyes tightly, and prayed. When he read over the third place, I was hopeless. But then, there was my name in the list of the second place. I thought :"It was impossible!", but that was the fact.

Although I wasn't the person in the first place, I was still proud because I tried my best, and had a place in a big competition, of a whole city!