I went to a museum and watched a video about a man who heard a story about a frog jumping contest and then he turned it into a book. The book made him famous and he is a writer everyone knows. His name is Mark Twain. That is his writing name, not his real name. Everybody got excited about the book and started to actually have a frog jumping contest every May! People come to this place from everywhere and bring their frogs in unusual containers. The people slap the ground to make their frog jump far. I know they don’t hurt the frogs but I still wonder how much the frogs like it or if they jump because they feel scared!
The winning frog gets a special award in the sidewalk and there is a statue of a frog near where the contest happens. I was a little bit disappointed because I thought that the frog statue would be very big.
I might like to come back to watch these frogs jump but I am not really sure about it.