Narrative Essay On The Great Gatsby

I was attempting to watch the movie, “The Great Gatsby”, over the three-hundred loudmouth high school students in the auditorium when I heard the teacher began to list the names of the next group up. My partner and I both knew we were about to be called but neither of us felt ready. The next thing we heard was, “Kelly and Duff, sports promotion” from the teacher. The next half hour instantly became a memory branded in my mind because without competing in my first Deca competition I never would have known I wanted to go into the public relations field.
The morning began with me having to be at the school almost an hour early to leave for the competition. But, our bus decided to show up late leaving forty students and our teacher waiting outside in the frigid weather for what felt like an hour. The wait outside was most likely no more than a twenty minutes but for a person that despises mornings, it felt like an eternity.
“Bus is finally here!” yelled Mrs. Chilman to all of us.
All forty of us instantly piled on to the bus as fast as we possibly could. Once we all found a seat, we set off for Miami-Hamilton. However, we ended up taking a little detour on our way there.
“Everybody listen! We’re stopping for some McDonald's breakfast on the way!”, she screamed.
“Let’s go! Pancakes and a day off school, how could this get day get any better?, I said in

excitement.
Unfortunately, the excitement did not last long.

There is nothing slower on this earth than McDonald’s workers at eight in the morning. Now I cut them some slack, forty hungry high schoolers coming in at the same time can make it a little hectic. Especially when almost everyone orders a hashbrown. After waiting forty-five minutes, and many people taking their food back up to get the right food, we finally were able to eat our food. I don’t think my teacher planned for how slow some people because we arrived a half hour late to our competition. Luckily, nobody in our chapter had to compete yet by the time we got

there.
At Deca competitions, there’s about 500 hundred kids jammed into an auditorium that just barely holds us. To keep us all occupied they bring movies, and everybody votes on the order of the movies that we watch. For some reason, that I still can’t wrap my head around to
this day, the advisors brought the movie “The Internship” with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson
us to watch. Let’s just say that some of the scenes in the movie never needed to be seen by anybody. No matter how old they are. But, they still played it for us all to keep us entertained.
After the movie ended I noticed it was getting close to my partner and my time to compete. Even though it was each of ours first time competing we didn’t feel nervous about it. But after about twenty minutes into “The Great Gatsby” the next group of students began to be called out.
“Kelly and Duff, sports promotion” we heard and the butterflies started to flutter just a little bit.
All of our fellow classmates wished us good luck on our way out and we definitely felt we needed it. We then had to walk back outside in the freezing cold and halfway across campus to the building for our competition. Once we got inside a lady started talking to us about how it’s going to work.
“Everybody’s going to walk in and find your categories situation taped down the desk for you and your partner. You then have fifteen minutes to read and develop your ideas for the judges. Good luck, do well”, she instructed us.
The timer began and my partner and I began to read as fast as we possibly could. We found out that our situation was to come up with ideas to draw a bigger crowd to a local towns Minor League Baseball team.
“This is going to be so easy”, I assured my partner.
Whispering as quietly as we could to keep other competitors from stealing our ideas, our paper started filling up with ideas. We started to think that we had a great shot to move onto state.
Walking into the second part of the competition our confidence shot back down when we saw our judge. Standing in front of us was a six-foot-five man that looked like a million dollars was about to judge us on our promotional plan. Fighting all the nerves, we somehow ended up presenting our plan to him without any bumps in the road. As we walked out, both of us felt like we did pretty well and all that was left in the day was the wait to find out if our names’ would be called up on stage to receive our trophy and tickets to state.
Unfortunately, our names never got called again and our Deca season ended quickly. Even though we knew that with it being our first year, and that we were in the most competitive category it would be hard to make it to state. Despite that we left the competition a little disappointed, especially when our teacher told us we finished two points away from going to state. However, that day assured me that I wanted to go into public relations. Brainstorming for ideas to help a baseball organization, and presenting in front of a front office one day with millionaires taking advice from you seemed the best job I could ever have. Competing in Deca is one of the best decisions I ever made because of what it showed me I could do in my future.