New Tales Of the Gobi Desert
Glenealy School, Anjeli De Blank, Fiction: Group 2
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unning and dodging, I skidded to a halt in front of the airport, with a shaky feeling in me.
This was my first time going on a plane. as I entered the airport, I felt like I would have a
nervous breakdown. I checked in and boarded my stuffy, squashed plane to Beijing.
Slumping onto my chair, the flight manager kept playing an annoying video over and
over to remind us what to do and which things were safe. I was about to fall asleep when the plane
started to shake, then suddenly we took off into the thick clouds and headed towards Beijing.
Many times I started to panic and lose my breath however I always caught it again. I feel
unsafe and am very careless. I start watching a movie to stop feeling like this, I calmed down and
felt. l like the safest person on earth. I was very relaxed when suddenly the plane rumbled and
the alarm went off, people went crazy. The plane was buzzing with people, I felt like I would faint.
Then I remembered the video they played at the beginning, we had parachutes under our seats.
I grabbed mine and plunged out of the open doors. I was so afraid I almost puked but thank-
goodness I didn’t. I pulled my string and my parachute opened. I looked back and there was a man
falling from the sky with a parachute. As soon as I reached the ground I tried to figure out where
I was but I had no idea at all. The man landed and told me that we were in the Gobi Desert. I was
so shocked that I fainted.
I was unconscious for two days. In the morning I woke up in the plane and saw a man. His
name was Connor. He was rummaging through the cabin looking for food. He already had a whole
bag full. After he got enough food and found a map we started to walk to Beijing. Suddenly we
heard a growl. We started to run and something was following us. I looked back and saw a wolf
chasing us. It was getting closer and closer. I remembered we had meat so I took it out of the bag
and threw it. The wolf stopped running and started eating the meat. It was getting late so we
gathered some leaves and put them down. We had a quick dinner and went to bed.
The next day I woke up to something licking my face. I opened my eyes and saw marbled
polecat. I screamed so loud that I woke up Connor. He grabbed the polecat and threw it. I saw a
glimpse of it running over a sand dune. We ate some fruits for breakfast and kept walking. Then
we saw a huge river. I wondered how to get across. “I thought we could build a raft but what
would it be made of?” I said. Connor said we had to swim across so we did. We slowly walked into
the water but it was freezing cold. I swam so slowly that by the time Connor reached the other
side I was still halfway through. Then I felt something bite me. It bit me again so I looked at my
foot and there was a huge fish biting it. I started to swim really fast until I reached the other side.
The fish was gone but so was our supplies. Everything was gone except the map. I was so angry
that threw a huge tantrum for a whole hour. I started to calm down, but then my tummy started
to rumble. I tried eating the sand but it tasted so gross that I just had to spit it out. Then I saw
something green. I ran to it with Connor behind me. It was the Green wall of China! Finally we
had reached China.
We had no money so we sat on the streets like beggars looking for money.
After a few days later we earned enough money to buy two houses. We each bought our own
houses and lived like any other normal person.
