STUDENT CONTRIBUTION
After jumping around in excitement, I rushed to place down my laptop. I screamed at the top of my lungs, when I read the message from the Australian Olympic Committee. They asked if I would like to meet Kailani Craine! I immediately replied saying, “Definitely, I would love to”. I had just been invited to join Kailani, the Australian figure skater, who had finished competing in Beijing, in a Zoom meeting, later that day.
At home, I sat nervously in my room fidgeting with anything I could find. Suddenly I looked up and I was on the call. I froze, I was speechless. “Hi guys!” Kailani said
“Hi!” I replied,
My heart skipped one hundred beats. I asked her “How does it feel to be representing Australia?”
“Hon, it feels amazing!”
She called me ‘Hon’, I think I died on the inside.
We talked a bit, laughed, I even got wished happy birthday by an Olympian! I took a couple of photos to remember this surreal occasion. After the meeting finished, I leaned back “Ahhh”, this is definitely the best day of my life!”