Journey to the West
Korean International School , Wong , Heidi - 12
One day , my family which includes my Mum , Dad , little Brother and I , were getting ready to go to Lantau Island . It was a big day for our family because we have been waiting for a very long time . “ Man I have been waiting for this day to come for long and it has finally came !” shouted my little brother called Nicolas . He was the most excited of because we will be with his friends for the upcoming day and night . He was running around and going crazy . He started getting annoying so mum had to make him do something to help the family . I was busy in my room packing for the trip . I packed pyjamas , underwear , t-shirt , pants , shoes , socks , shirts and things to entertain me .
An hour later , we finished packing everything into our bags . Everyone had got something to take to the trip . We are going to the west of Hong Kong , to Lantau island , and find some clams in the sand . We have went to that place before but we were invited by Nicolas friend to go find clams and stayed the night in a house for the night instead of going home so we could play longer .
We went there by taking the MTR then on a bus to our destination . It took around an hour or so to arrive . When we are there , we struggled finding the house that we will be staying in but luckily one of the mums came back and help us . She was very nice and she waited for us to change and bring us to the place where we will be finding the clams . It is very important because what we find is what we will eat tonight . While everyone was searching for clams , I had a look around . I was able to see lots of people that is working with a plow trying to find some . I was also able to see the sea far away from where we currently were . I could smell the salt from the seawater and the sour mixed with smell from the sweaty people . I sat on a chair that no one was sitting on and bent down to touch the sand that felt like mud . The water felt warm since it was a hot day , sadly the hot water did not help me cool down . In the meantime , someone walked past me while I , for some reason , have my mouth open , and he splashed the water and went into my mouth . I immediately spit it out , I was able to taste the saltiness in just a few drops of water . In the distance I could hear waves splashing against the shore , birds chirping , and people talking . My mum then walked up to me and said “ don ' t just sit around , do something .” I can ' t ignore my mum so I did what I am supposed to do and went in search .
We had been in the cove for 3 hours and everyone that was invited to come has arrived . In those hours lots of cool thing happened , people finding big clams , me finding so many creatures that live in the water that we are working in . However 3 hours after 3o ’ clock , the sun is starting to set and the sea water is coming back to shore . When everyone started to leave , they have found some baby crabs walking around . A dad picked up two of them back to the house . There was already someone in the house because we will be living there for the night and we would need to bath . Everyone waiting to bath in the same time is not a good idea , so some of Nicolas friend went to the house and had a bath first .
While everyone takes turn to bath , some mum went to cook dinner so the kids don ’ t need to wait . Everyone was very busy working on things . Some people kitchen , some of them are helping the children bath , there are some people that are in their rooms getting things or resting . Dinner was in the second floor of the house . There was a long table for all the clean children to sit down and eat .
In the house , I was able to see children eating , the TV is on , people cooking and a lot of other things that are happening . I could smell the yummy food on the table in the second floor . I could hear talking and the air con which was on for the whole day . I got hungry so I went back upstairs and when I went up to the second floor I could feel the smooth and cold railing for the stairs . When I got to the second floor my dad handed me a bowl of spaghetti to eat . I said thank you and eat it right away . I could taste the yummy food that is in my mouth . It was so yummy that I had to eat more . While everyone is eating upstairs some of the mum went down stairs to the clams that should be ready for cooking . They got some of the clams and try it out by cooking it . The clams was good for everyone to eat , so they cooked more and bring it up stairs for everyone to eat the clams that we found . My mum helped cook some of the clams that we found and I help her serve the food . I made sure that everyone have eaten at least 2 clams . While we were eating the clams some kids which did not want to eat went to the sofa and played with the crab . Playing with the crab alone is very dangerous , so I stayed with them to make sure that they are safe since I got hurt once . The adults thank me for doing that .