Sensational Sailing Trip!

Super Sensational sailing trip!

I had a dream that we went sailing and guess what? It actually happened! On 2nd of November, we
were going to go sailing because our lovely teachers set some things up for us to go sailing. When I
woke up, I already had my clothes on that I was going to wear that day.  I was so excited that I woke
up in the middle of the night and put on my clothes that I was going to wear that day. Jumping out of
bed, I quickly ate my breakfast but the bad thing was that: there weren't any muffins left, or apples, or
biscuits or even NUTELLA! That just had to ruin my day today!

I have a younger brother and his name is Sahil and he goes to the same school as me but he is very
slow at eating and I thought that we were going to be late because he ate so slowly. Luckily, I got to
school just in time and I didn’t forget anything either! The first thing that I did when I came into my
classroom was examine everybody's outfit and what they were wearing because there were different
colours and styles everywhere! There were lots of excited faces and some nervous ones too because
most of us had already been sailing but a few of us hadn’t.

We hopped into the bus and kids started chatting about their day to come and how they felt. I felt pretty
nervous but I was also excited to be going sailing because I hadn’t been since our school trip last year.
 The first thing that we had to do was to get the boat ready because we couldn’t just hop in the boat and
we didn’t know how to sail the boat properly. I had already remembered some of the things that we had
to remember last year like rigging the boat but we didn’t remember all the names of the equipment. We
tied and made sure that everything was in place. We learnt how to sail the boat and how to control it so
it wouldn't tip once we were on the waters. The first session went by, as we set up the boats, and then
it was morning tea time. We only had a quick snack and then we did a bit more learning with the boats
and then we were ready to go on the water!

I was nervous when we were on the boat by ourselves because there wasn’t any room for more than
1 person. At first I was worried, I thought that the boat was going to tip over, but surprisingly it didn’t
and I got the hang of it. I went out on the boat tonnes of times, I was having so much fun sailing! Once
everybody had a go, if they didn’t want to try again, they didn’t have to but I kept going because I was
having so much fun! The only people who capsized were Louis and Eben but I don’t blame them
because it was their first time going sailing. We were shouting their names when the boat tipped over
and everybody was worried, some people thought it was funny and just started cracking up.

MInutes felt like seconds as the day passed on and before I knew it, it was lunch time! I was pretty
happy because I was hungry after helping and sailing the boats. We ate our lunch and we played with
the equipment that we had brought with us from school. We played volleyball and we had lots of fun
but we had to stop playing and then we were back in our boats sailing again. At first there were only a
few boats that we could sail on but every now and then, they added boats since we were so good at it.
We kept sailing but then it was time to go home but before we could do that, we had to put all the boats
away in the container. We undid all the ties and put away all the things.  We hopped onto the bus and
we were ready to go but the gate was closed! Nobody had the keys except one of the tutors that had
already left. We tried calling them, but they didn’t pick up their phone.

We thought we were going to stay there forever but a teacher and kids from Riccarton High School
had arrived and they had keys! Yes!  We were on our way again and after all that sailing, I was tired!
There was one word that could describe the day! SENSATIONAL!