Here's an essay entitled "Tsunami!" by my Ngee Ann Primary School classmate, Tang Yu Jun during our Primary Four year.
“Mom, Dad,
please wake up! You promised to take us to the beach today since I’ve done well
for the test!” I said as I playfully
pulled the blankets off both my parents. It was an idyllic and
leisurely Saturday morning and my parents were still in bed. I had done well
for my test, so my parents had agreed to bring my younger sister, Jane, and me
to the beach.
We had already
been woken up by the ‘ring’ of my alarm clock at seven in the morning. We had
quickly zoomed to the kitchen to prepare some sandwiches. We had also prepared
all the stuff we needed and put them into our rucksacks and were ready to go!
We just had to wait for our parents to get ready.
Once we
reached the beach, we immediately chose a shady spot under a tree to put our
things. Birds were flying in the cerulean
sky and a gentle breeze was caressing the trees. We then took out our
things which we needed to build the sandcastles. We chose a wide open space and
started our sandcastle-building. On one of the trips to get water, I was
walking knee-deep in the
water when suddenly, the water started to retreat! I stood rooted to the ground, my mouth agape in horror.
There was dead
fish lying on the seabed and a few minutes later, a white line appeared on the horizon. What on earth could it
be? Tsunami! The words blazed
fiercely across my mind. I bolted
back to my parents and asked them if a tsunami was about to happen. “Oh my
gosh! It is! Everyone, run! Tsunami!” my father hollered at the top of his
voice. “Get to higher ground!” he added. Soon, everyone was bolting to the nearest
tall building and shouting, “Tsunami!” It was very hard to get up the building
with everyone pushing their way up but we somehow made it.
Our legs
turned to jelly when we say the tsunami causing so much damage. After the
tsunami, we were warned not to go down in case there was a second tsunami. After
we were assured that we were
safe, we went out of the building.
“It was good
that you were vigilant or we would not make it out alive,” my mother told me.
From that day onwards, I realized that a natural
disaster could happen anywhere and at any time.
Scary huh, tsunami ... let's pray we all keep and stay safe from such natural disasters!
Till the next essay,
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