memoir

"Ninda, come on the bus is leaving!” Monica called. Monica is my best friend. She is a little older than me, but we stick like glue. We were best friends since 4th grade. I ran to the bus as fast as I could to get to the bus. I ran to the blue bus that was heading to the Chiba prefecture for our graduation trip. It was a long bus ride there, about 3 hours but it seemed like 10. In the bus Julia, Monica, Effie, and I sat in the back where there was a lot of space. Julia and Effie are also very close, we spend most of the time together.

“Mr. Bullock, are we there yet?” my friends and I shouted to our teacher. Our teacher was about 6 feet. He had brown hair, blue eyes, a mustache, and no glasses.

      “Two more hours girls” Mr. Bullock said back.

        The boys were really noisy and some were playing with their Nintendo DS. My friends and I got really bored so Julia took her 15 beanie babies and started to throw them all over the place. We began a beanie babies war, eventually some of the beanie babies hit the boys.

     “Ninda, Julia, Monica, and Effie, you are going to get it “, the boys threatened us when a beanie baby hit them.

       Afte= r that our bus was filled with flying beanie babies which everyone had thrown. We had fun. A few hours later we arrived at the hostel.

    After we put all our things away into our rooms we went to the sand dunes. The sand dunes were just small hills of sand. The sand was so soft that you could feel your leg getting sucked into it. It was very adventurous to get to the hill. First we had to climb a really steep hill with our red sled and our bags. Then there was a path to take and it was like a small forest. The roots of trees were sticking out and sometimes you could feel the thorns touch your skin and scrap your skin. It was kind of slippery and the sand made it worse. Some people tumble down the small hill. After that we got to the site. Everyone was really happy. We had to go to the sand slide and it was really steep and hard to climb. After we climbed up we had to slide down the hill with a red sled. After going up and down the hill a million times we got tired of it, so we went to a much steeper hill. My friends and I ran down the hill at an incredible speed, like a rocket. Below the hill was a little stream which we followed. The water was cold just what we needed in a burning hot day. The water was not that clean and there was bugs all over the place. There was huge spiders and bug that had thin legs and when it touches your legs you can feel it crawl on your skin and it tickles. To make the situation worse we heard Monica scream, ”Ahhhh!!! "There’s a snake!” Monica screamed at the top of her lungs. It sounds that she just saw a cobra. We all got really scared even the boys. We ran out as fast as we could. Climbing that steep hill was just like climbing Mt. Everest. I felt sweat running down my face as I climbed up the hill. Everyone had to use at least one stick to help them climb up.

     “This will take forever”, I thought while I climbed up the hill. On the top our teacher helped us get up. I sighed of relief when I got to the top. We went back to the bus. We had to get ourselves clean with all the sand. And when we got all cleaned up we went back to the hotel. On the ride home most us slept. We were very exhausted after hiking all day.

      When we arrived back at the hotel we all took a bath, ate a nasty, cold dinner, and got ready for bed. At 9:30 o’clock the teachers turned off all the lights, but at 11 o’clock my friends and I were still talking. Then one of my friends wanted to meet to the boys.

   “Oh my gosh, we can meet the boys,” Kianna said.

    But the boys were too lazy, so we decided to meet at 3:30 a.m. to see the sunrise. At 3:30 a.m. when we sneaked out as quitly as we can and no one was in site, but a sound suddenly rang. It was kind of soft but it became much louder. We thought that all the teachers heard it and we ran back to our rooms. When the coast was clear we sneaked out. It was our “mission impossible "We climbed up the windows and sneaked inside their room. The boys were up and chatting. We met the boys and together we played truth or dare as quietly as possible and watched the sunrise. Then the CTPs(cold teacher’s pet) came up to us and thought that we were copying them. The CTP also planned to meet the boys that morning and they thought that we were copying them. We thought that they were wrong and we ignored them for the rest of the day.

     At 8 o’clock we left for Sea World. When we entered the gate we were alone until lunch. I went with my best friend Monica and Julia, and my friends Kianna and Machica. We saw all of the performances. When we were watching the dolphins we took pictures of them when they jumped. Julia and I got them in the right spot, but Monica usually missed. After lunch we went to see the killer whales. It was FIRST-CLASS! Then at 3 o’clock we bought souvenirs. I bought a necklace, a cell phone strap, and a post card. After that we went back to the hotel.

     After dinner we had a campfire. The campfire was EXCELLENT! We made delicious hot smores. The marshmallows were perfect. It was hot soft, melted with chocolate and the gram crackers were really crunchy. It was SUPER DUPER! After that we told terrifying stories and hilariously Funny stories. The horror stories made me have Goosebumps for the rest of the night. You could feel a felling running down your back and right after that we had the ultimate test of courage. It was already 10 o’clock and Monica and I walked a small trail of a small mountain with only a flash light guiding us. Monica and I weren’t scared until we saw a cemetery kind of shrine. We got really scared that we had chills. We could feel cold sweat running down our cheeks. . And we froze in that spot until we screamed so loud that everyone in the universe can hear and we ran until we couldn’t see it anymore. After that we started to walk a little bit faster. Our teacher Mr. Bullock was supposed to scare us to death, but we spotted him before he could even come out of the bushes. He gave each of us a light stick. Some of the boys were there trying to scare us and we couldn’t even s= ee them. But with the courage Monica and I went down the hill. We saw someone’s shoe and we thought it was one of the boys. The y jumped with all their might, but we didn’t get scared. The person after us, her name was Farzana, she went down the hill and she was scared to death when the boys scared her. Monica and I were laughing so much that we couldn’t even breathe. Well that was the test of courage and we went back to our rooms. I wasn’t with Monica for the rest of the night, because she had problems that she doesn’t want me to get involved with. I was with my other friends for the rest of the night.

   The next day we had a free time until lunch. We played volleyball, basketball, and badminton. I was teaching one of my friends how to play badminton and volleyball. I was with Monica to play badminton. We were a strong team and we were undefeated. We felt that we were the ultimate champion. Something happened after the free time, but I can’t tell you. Then we ate lunch and started to head back to Tokyo. We stopped for 45 min. at Tokyo Aqua line. Then Julia, Monica, Effie, and I took pictures at the picture box. I t was really crowded and we had to line up. After we took pictures and as we realized that the 45 minutes were finished. My friends and I ran like a jet and got there just in time. The rest of the trip was fun. That is what happened on this trip.