Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Non-Fiction 2018 | Page 7

South Africa
Shanghai Community International School, Scott, Sarai - 7
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rom 2015-2017, I lived in Ghana (West Africa). During that time, my family and I traveled to many
places including South Africa. I like to call my family, “The Travel Family” because we love to
travel!
One day, during our South Africa trip, we visited the children’s museum. After leaving there, we
were stuck in the rain for a long time trying to find a taxi. We were super wet! After we finally made it
home, we ate dinner and then immediately took a bath, put on pajamas, and went to bed.
The next day, it was sunny so walked outside to go to the playground. After we went to the park,
we went to a restaurant for lunch. I had one big double hamburger!
My parents took us to the car rental shop to get a new car because our old rental car was in a car
accident. After leaving the park, we returned to our rental car and noticed that someone else hit our car
while it was parked. When we saw our new rental car, I said that I like this rental car because it was grey
and big. I like big cars more than small cars. My twin sister, Savannah, whispered in my ear, why do we
need a van? Mom heard what Savannah said, and she answered because we need a car to drive. We got
into our new rental car to drive back home. My dad parked it in a different place. All of a sudden, we heard
another storm. Ah!!!
My little sister, Eden, said it just a little storm to my whole family! The storm stopped; we all
calmed down and went back to a nice quiet sleep.
After we woke up, we went downstairs to eat breakfast. When we looked into the freezer, our
box of pancakes was stuck to the freezer. We tried to pull it out, but it was stuck. “Now what!!” said the
whole family.
We then went to a nice restaurant for breakfast. After that, we went to the park and had so much
fun at the playground. We saw a lot of dogs at the playground. I am scared of dogs, especially big dogs. I
asked my nanny, “why do people need dogs?” She said because they don’t have children.
The dogs had their own place to play and nap. The nanny said that the dogs are sleeping, so we can
now walk pass them to leave the park. While leaving, we met another family and they asked us how long
are you staying in South Africa? By that time, we only had one more day left.