Narration Essay

A Funny Thing Happened.......

A few years ago, I was going back home after a vacation to visit my grandparents in Hoa Xuan, a little village, which is in the middle of Vietnam. It was an experience that I have still recalled until now.

It was a remote village in a rural area, so the only way to get to the nearest train station was to walk. I was the youngest guy among my local friends, whom I spent most of my time with when I had stayed there. We were not expecting any difficulties, so all of us were surprised to notice that our way was blocked by water. It was really rare for it to rain in the summer, which is always a dry season in my country, so the river should have been dry; however, there had been a flash flood. Fortunately, while we were thinking about how to cross over the river, there were some young guys waiting there with little boats. It was usual not to sit down in these boats, so everyone was expected to stand. My friends soon climbed on board one of the boats while I still hesitated about whether these boats were safe or not. I didn’t want to go because it looked too full to add one more; however, my friends still insisted. Finally, I decided to get on; if not, I would miss the train that I had booked a ticket for before. I was pretty scared, so I held onto the person next to me and I felt that unexpected things would happen. Then the boat sank down although it didn’t turn over. It just slowly went down and all the passengers went down too. Fortunately, the river was not as deep as I thought. We stood on the sand at the bottom of the river and watched the broken pieces of the boat and everyone’s rubber shoes, which were floating around us.

Although I had a little bit of a scare in this accident, it was a funny memory that I couldn’t forget. Since then I have become more careful whenever I have to cross over rivers by small boats.