Diary entry about winning a prize and that prize is flight in a hot air balloon

Dear diary,

Wednesday 20th January, today i entered a contest for fun... well lets be honest my friends were pushing me to join it because they wanted the ultimate prize which was a free flight in a hot air balloon, it may sound like an amazing opportunity but i don't like stuff like this i never have but i enter for my friends, and unluckily i wont the prize but i'm contemplating weather to tell anyone or to just throw the tickets away for someone else who's lucky to find them. Oh my god am i seriously thinking of throwing a big chance for my friends to have a once in a lifetime experience out the window? I'm an idiot what an idiot why would i even consider that?

Explanation: I'm swamped with work for school at the moment so it isn't the best entry and my weakness is English but i tried hope it helps or gives you a budge :)

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

hope this answer you: )!

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