Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Winners 2020 | Page 4

Winning Entries
Fiction – Group 1
WINNER
Future Adventures of the Greater
Bay Area
Kingston International School, Fung, Derek – 7
It is the year 2123. I am Derek Fung, a seven-year-old boy living in the Greater Bay
Area. I want to be a scientist when I grow up. In the Greater Bay Area, everyone’s dreams
come true.
I have already designed and built my own environmentally friendly treehouse and
robot horse. I was just finishing a third saddle for the robot horse when I decided to ride it
around the Greater Bay Area.
I packed some food for my cat and dog in one saddlebag and a tent in the other. I put
three saddles onto the robot horse, magnetically attached the saddlebags and then placed
my pets on the saddles at the back. I jumped on the front saddle and buckled everyone up.
I took out a map of the Greater Bay Area and marked my first destination... Macau.
The robot horse suddenly galloped towards the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge.
We went along the bridge and saw modern vehicles, including a motorcycle with one wheel
and an electric hoverboard in the shape of a lily pad.
Once we arrived in Macau, we bought delicious Portuguese egg tarts and visited the
Casino Museum. We learned about poker and blackjack, and how gambling addiction is a
serious problem. Then we rode the roller coasters zooming around the Eiffel Tower replica.
We put up our tent next to the tower and recharged the robot horse. We finally went into
the tent to sleep.
The next morning, I took out the map again and marked the next destination…
Zhuhai. We packed our things and continued on the bridge. When we arrived, we went
straight to Chimelong Ocean Kingdom. We fed penguins, rode dolphins, trained beluga
whales and went in a submarine. I asked the staff to let us sleep next to the aquarium and
they agreed! We sat next to the tent, watching the whale sharks and great whites swimming
around. The staff brought food and we ate until we were full. Finally, we fell asleep.
When we woke up, I marked the last destination... Shenzhen. We packed our things
and continued our journey. In Shenzhen, we saw a building called “The Robot Factory”.
“Giddy-up!” I shouted.
The horse suddenly leaped in through a window.
Inside the factory, I saw a “Firefighter Elephant” robot that can spray water from its
trunk to put out fires and a “Doctor Lemur” robot that can perform surgery with its six
fingers. Then I saw factory workers putting metal into a machine labelled “Teacher Owl”.
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