The Adventure in Gobi Desert
Marymount Primary School, Leeanne Lau, Fiction: Group 1
I
t was the summer holidays, my family and I were on a trip across the world, when we came
to China. Suddenly the airplane ran out of fuel so we landed in the Gobi Desert.
We found camels to ride on. The camels led us to an oasis. We lived there for a few days.
Then, we set off to find other peole that knew how to survive in the desert. We saw two
other English people and asked if they knew how to get out of the the Gobi desert. They didn’t
know, so we asked them if they could join us. They agreed right away. Then we led them back to
the oasis. That night,we planned how to get out of the Gobi Desert. The other people told us their
names. One was very fat,and the other was muscular.The fat one is James,and the other Joe. Their
names both start with J because they were brothers. James is 15 and Joe is 21.
My parents took care of us like we were brothers and sisters. But, one day James and Joe said
“We want to get out of here,we want to go home.” But, my parents said” We can’t get out of the
desert, plus we don’t know the way out of the Gobi Desert.”
I thought for a few minutes, then I had an idea and asked “Does anyone have a compass?”
Then James spoke up and he said that he had a compass. I said ”Great! Now that we have a
compass we can find our way back.” We were really lucky.
The next morning, we set off to go back home, we found the Silk Road then, we followed it to
China. Soon, it was night time so we climbed off camels and ate some fruit and other things. We
slept in sleeping bags and sang a few songs. I could not sleep that night, I kept on thinking what
would happen to us. Would we get home? Would we get lost? Would we run out of food?
The next morning we found our airplane. But, they could not fix the plane. So, they offered
us to live on the plane,we said okay. Of course we would like to live on a plane. So we parked our
camels outside the plane, so we could walk them like pets. As for food, we could eat yummy food.
Yay! We spent the whole day watching movies and playing games.
In a few days it would be school again. Luckily, they got the plane up and running. We flew
back to Hong Kong. When we got back, we invited James and Joe to our house. Then they said
they lived upstairs on the seventh floor! I was very happy to know they were neighbours. So, after
few days, everything went back to normal. I went back to school every day. And mom and dad
made me write about our adventure, so I did so that is the story your reading right now.
