Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Non-Fiction 2018 | Page 35

As night falls, the kids get put to sleep and the adults start to gather to talk while the kids were asleep. I stayed with the adults for a while since I didn’t felt sleepy. I stayed downstairs with my dad and wait until my mum comes out which means that my little brother is asleep. Then after that my dad went to sleep and my mum and I waited for the other mums and go up. When we went up the TV was on and all the kids were asleep. The adults were talking with each other. I sat there for some time but I had to tell my mum that I was still a bit hungry so I made cup noodles to eat. After I finished eating, we started talking about something. After around two hours of talking, me and my mum went back down said goodnight to the other mums then went back to our own rooms and slept until the morning when something happened… The following morning, most people that sleeps on the first floor is awoken by Nicolas cries because he is not sleeping with my mum. After keeping Nic stop crying, my mum went to check her phone to see what time it is. She saw a notification from the Hong Kong Observatory app that typhoon signal 8 will be given out at 11 am. And right now it is 8 in the morning. “Go upstairs and tell the everyone that typhoon signal 8 will be given out soon” said my mum, without replying I ran up the stairs to the second floor of the house and told them what my mum told me to tell them, after I told everyone I went rushing back down stairs to help pack up. In just a few minutes everyone was awake and running around the home while packing up. When we all finished packing up I went to double check and make sure nothing is left behind. We left and went on taxis in groups of 4 or 5. By the time we have left it was already typhoon signal 8. Everyone was safe and went to eat breakfast at MacDonald. All of us sat together needed to use 2 long table and we had a great time.