New Journeys to the West
Kowloon Tong School ( Primary Section ), Lam , Tsz Kiu – 11
Once upon a time , a monk called Xuanzang went to India with a monkey called Sun Wukong , Zhu Bajie , and Sha Wujing . They went through a lot of difficulties along the way but they managed to overcome them . They were very close to their destination . One day , they passed along a river and Sun Wukong noticed something strange . The river was not as same as the others in the country . All rivers in the country had a market on each river bank and there a lot of people at anytime as they think water were very important . However , this river did not have a market and they were the only people who wanted to pass the river . Sun Wukong built a raft and wanted to cross the river . They sat on the raft and they fell into the water .
They woke up in an unfamiliar place . They were all dropped into the modern world 1388 years later ! They rubbed their eyes and discovered that there were full of people . They thought the Guanyin had helped them to continue their journey so they did not give any attention to anyone . Sun Wukong wondered why were the people wearing different clothes such as t-shirts and pants but not old-fashioned robes and slippers . He told Xuanzang the differences between them and the people around them . Unfortunately , Xuanzang thought people wore clothes like this in India and did not pay a lot of attention to that . They continued to walk to India .
They had noticed a lot of differences between food from now a days and the past . People from modern days are eating fast food such as burgers and fries ; however , they had used to eat Chinese steamed bun . Xuanzeng and his students thought fast food greasy and not clean so they did not eat anything on the way . Xuanzeng eventually noticed that they had come to another world and they had to go back to the world that they used to live . Xuanzeng grabbed a modern map of China and compared it with the ancient map of China . He set off to see Guanyin after walking for two days .
Guanyin told Xuanzeng that the only way to go back to the past was to fall into the same river and the same place using the same way as they went to the modern days . Their map said the river was in a small fishing village . Guanyin told Xuanzeng that he could find a historian to help him to solve this problem . They went to find a historian and the historian claimed that the river was actually the Victoria Harbour . Xuanzeng and his students were all thrilled to learn the fact . Zhu Bajie helped to build a raft to sail to the middle of the harbour . They were all very excited about the trip . The harbour was exceptionally busy the day when they set off with ferries and cargo ships hustling around .
Their raft first ran smoothly . But then Zhu Bajie was so careless that he had let go their only oar . The raft lost its power and started to drift in the harbour . Sun Wukong scolded Zhu Bajie furiously , “ What are you doing ?” They finally stopped when the raft hit an enormous cargo ship and almost sank . Xuanzeng was so scared that his spine shivered up and down . The harbour started to get windy and the waves were big . They used their hands to paddle to the exact place . They were very determined and they worked together as a team . The waves were too big that they were thrown into the water . Xuanzeng was as sick as a dog after he was rescued from the water . He felt very uncomfortable . They were thrown into the water once again in the exact same place as they sank before . Eventually , they continued their journey to the west and arrive there successfully a few days later .
In this story , they had learned that the key to success is to work together as a team . They had also learned that nothing is impossible when they are determined .