Monday, November 17, 2008

Hope, then Rescued



Its been so long since I have last heard my mom's voice. I was starting to forget things since I already had so many things to worry about here on the island. Me and a couple of other people from my group decided to go gather some fruit because we were getting really hungry and we were scared of dying. I had never been so scared before. I was scared of dying, even though I didn't have a life on this island, I had some hope inside of me. I had this feeling that we were going to get rescued. I've been like this since I was little. Whenever I had some type of hope in me, I wouldn't give up because I knew I would get what I want in the end. After gathering the fruit, we were walking and talking back to the island. And all of a sudden I heard this loud noise in the sky. I had never heard this much noise before. I looked up and saw about 7 helicopters. They came to rescue us. I was so happy I just dropped everything went to get the conch and blew it to call everyone over. The helicopters landed and rescued us. And out of one of the helicopters came out my brother. They said they were looking for us everywhere. And somehow they found out that an airplane crashed on this island so they came to rescue the surviving people. My brother said they weren't sure if the airplane was ours, but he said he had some hope in him; just like me. I felt so special for having so many people here to rescue us. I had never been so happy before.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Big conflict on the island

Melissa; our leader, gathered all of us together on the beach. The conch was going around and everyone had to say something new we should try. Edwin said we should have a little feast with lots of food, drinks, maybe even fruits. And he said we could even make up our own music by gathering some rocks and cans and everyone could clap, dance and sing. Jack; he one who always fights with Edwin jumped in the conversation when he wasn't even holding the conch. He jumped on Edwin and they started fighting like always. But this time was different, it wasn't just Edwin and Jack fighting, this time I jumped in too because I was so done with everyone being able to do what they want to do. I thought to myself that why can't I fight with people I dislike. I started fighting with this girl that had been really selfish and annoying lately. Her name is Lucy. After the fight I had noticed that everyone was fighting with eachother. The fight would have continued for god knows how long if Melissa hadn't blown the conch. Everyone stopped and listened to the leader. She said that she was leaving and who ever wanted to go with her had to know never to fight and had to think about not just themselves, but everyone else too. Out of the 30 people 19 people went with her as well as me. The other 11 kids went with Jack; the trouble maker. Jack's group were always starting trouble and acting so savage. My group wasn't so savage. We woke up, got food, ate, talked, then slept. I really liked the new group. We named ourselves the anti troublemakers. You can guess what the others named themselves; troublemakers.