A Trip in the Gobi Desert
The International School of Macao, Callis Wong, Fiction: Group 2
Monday, December 5, 2013
My name is Jacob Angelo, and I am an archaeologist. I am searching for dinosaur fossils in the
Nemegt Basin of the Gobi Desert with two more archaeologists, Bianca Stride and Steve Notch.
Bianca loves snow, which makes it kind of strange for her to be here, and Steve loves sandwiches.
He could eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day! So anyway, I found this journal in
the bottom of my backpack and I decided to record our findings so I could read about them later
on. We have been here for three days already and we dug out a nest of Triceratops eggs with a
baby Triceratops next to it. We are going to be here for a week, but we don’t have much water left,
so I am quite worried about getting dehydrated.
Tuesday, December 6, 2013
The weather isn’t that good today. We just experienced a sandstorm. To keep ourselves and the
equipment from blowing away, we had to hold on to a nearby tree and grab our equipment tightly.
We had our eyes shut the whole time for fear sand might blind us. Fortunately, we also made a
discovery! Steve found a bit of a dinosaur bone sticking out of the sand. We dug most of it out
and we are going to continue tomorrow. I explored the basin a bit with Bianca and we came upon
a herd of black-tailed gazelles grazing on thorns near our camp. They were very friendly and I
think I will bring Steve to see them some other day.
Thursday, December 8, 2013
I didn’t write yesterday because we spent the whole day working on the fossil we found on
Tuesday. We have most of it dug out and I think it might be the mother of the Triceratops nest we
found a few days earlier. But the weather today is even worse! There was a terrible sandstorm, so
we had to quit working for the day. I am writing this in the safety of my tent. We only have two
liters of water left, so unless we find an oasis, we are for sure going to get dehydrated. My mouth
and throat are parched.
Saturday, December 10, 2013
Bad news! We worked all day today and yesterday because we didn’t get any work done on
Thursday. Unfortunately, Bianca got dehydrated in the desert sun, so we had to take her back to
her tent to rest. It’s warm during the day, but bitter cold at night. The good news is that we have
finally freed from the sand the dinosaur fossil Steve found.
Sunday, December 11, 2013
It’s snowing today! Steve and I went outside to check on the weather and all we saw was
