The worst holidays

Last summer I went to Argentina and two days later a tsunami invaded this
zone. My family and I went to a hotel. My family and I were very scared
and my cousin was crying. He was very sad.
The whole family stayed two nights sleeping in the hotel. It was full of
people.
People were distributed from all the hotels. There were people from all
over the world. There were many tourists. Those days my brother and I
made many friends.
On a plane a few days later we came to rescue my whole family, we were
very sorry to say goodbye to our new friends. In the end it was an
adventure. It was better than I at first I imagined.

the flag of Argentina

one year after the tsunami

by Berta

THE UNEXPECTED EVENT

Last summer in August I was in South Africa. I was with my family
doing a safari, because it was my birthday present.

On the first day we went to the hotel of the little village for save the
luggage. Then, we went to visit the most beautiful parts of the
village.
The second day we woke up early because we had to start the safari
at 7 to see the sun rising. We went by the safari car with a guide. All
was fantastic, we saw lions, monkeys, giraffes, zebras But in the
afternoon, when we were returning to the hotel there was a wildfire
in the road, and we had to wait for 3 ours for the firefighters. When
the wildfire was out we heard a noise in the entrance There was a
frightened monkey because the fire!
By Cristina

THE WORST HOLIDAYS

Last summer I went with my family to Asturias. I was nine years old. My grandparents
came with us. We stayed at our house. We had an excursion every day. The first day
we went to a small beach and there were only two families. We had a great time!
Our friends were supposed to come, but they had an incident. While they were
coming, they stopped to get the tank filled. Oh no!!! They confused the gasoline, they
put the wrong one. It was raining. There were thunder and lightning. They phoned a
taxi. They went home again. When they arrived, Tania fell on the stairs. Oh no!!! She
broke her leg. The storm stopped. The next day the sun was shining and the birds were
singing. They took the car. Finally they arrived, but it was windy. In the morning we
went to a big beach. While we were eating, we saw a hurricane. We started running.
My mother told me that I had to catch my bag, but I was too scared to catch it.
It started raining, but it was sunny. When we arrived we saw a fox in our garden. We
took a lot of photos, but when my sister went to touch him it ran away. It was the
worst holidays, but we had a wonderful time because we were in family.
By Elsa

Last summer I was in India because it was the dream of my mother. We were in a
small hotel. In internet there were a lot of beautiful photos of the hotel. But when we
went to the hotel It was the most horrible hotel Ive ever stayed.
One day we went to Taj Mahal, It was a very sunny day and it was very hot. We took a
guide and when we were passing in front of one of the towers that are at the entrance
... It felt down on my brother.

In the end he didnt die but he broke his leg and three ribs. That was our worst
holidays!

THE WORST HOLIDAYS

When I was about 8 years old, I went with my family to Paris. I thought that those were going
to be the best holidays, but it wasnt like this. It was the first time that I took the plane.
The 4 first days, we stayed in Disneyland, all was perfect except the last day, when we went to
Paris centre. We were visiting the most important monuments and typical tourist places (Eiffel
Tower, Arc de triomf, Versalles). It was time to go to the airport, so we went to caught de
luggage at the hotel when it started to rain a lot. Later, when we arrived to the airport we
cant board the plane because of the storm. We saw lighting; we heard thunders so we were
scared.
Finally, three hours later, we cant go home and in spite of the last day, it was a perfect holiday
with my family to remember.
By Laia

THE WORST HOLIDAYS

In my life i have been to mane places, and all the memories that i remembered are
good, but, theres only one that ruins all that travels.
It happened the 4 of may. We were staying 3 days in a very big hotel in Miami, but it
didnt go like we had planed. We wake up at 7:00 to had more time for going around,
but wen we went out of the hotel, at the moment all started to move, and a very big
crack crossed all the hotel, and then, BAM! The Caribbean Maquiate hotel went down,
and five seconds later, there was no hotel in there. The earth swallowed inside the
ground. We were so scared because we didnt have anything to survive, no clothes, no
food, no money we went to a bar, and in the news they were saying to the people,
that in the satellites there received a very big signal of two tsunamis that were going to
Miami, all the people run to tall and strong buildings, and towers. At eight oclock
there was no body in the streets, all was very silence, and on the top of the building we
only can see the people crying, and going to the highest plaices with his family. It was
terrible. In the news were saying that we cant not go down and we must stay there for
some days because we were in red alert. We stayed there for one week, but there
werent any tsunamis, the people started to be unhappy and they started to go dawn
to their normal lives, but my family and a young couple that were waiting for a baby,
stayed there, because we were so scared. At night, all was like the other days, the
people went to sleep in their houses, but we and that couple were looking at the stars,
but, suddenly, I saw that the sea was going back, I ran to my mom to explain what I
saw, and so fast we started to shout to every one that the tsunami was coming, and
they must come up at the highest places, but no body heard us, we shout again and
dawn in the street we saw a little boy of 9 years old, but at the same time we started
to saw a very big wave coming so fast to Miami, I started running dawn to catch the
little boy, and went I arrived at the street the big wave was running behind me, I
cached the boy, and I started to run up stairs. I looked back and the wave was touching
my shoes, I looked up and I saw all my family shouting: run Gisel run, you can do it!,
and wen I was so near the door the wave cached me, and I swim and swim and finally I
arrived at the top of the building, but wen I was closing the door, a wave was going to
me I think that all was finishing there, but then my mom closed the door. Then we
went to look on the street, and saw all the people shouting help and running to save
their lives, it was terrible. Four days later, a helicopter came and rescue us, the young
couple said that they will adopt the little boy, and we said that will never go again to
some places with beaches.
By Gisel

A disaster holiday
Last summer I was in Indonesia with my family and my fathers friends. First, we went
to the airport in Barcelona.
Once on the plane and in the middle of the Flight the plane said:

Ladies and gentlemen engines do not work. If they dont start working, we
will fall into the sea.
In the end there was only one engine problem and nothing happened but we were
really scared.
Finally when we were in the centre they announced that a flood was coming and we
had to stay during two days in a refugee camp.
This holidays werent very good.
When we came back, in the airport, other people took our. But in the end we got them
back. It was an appalling holiday!!!
By Pau

A disaster holiday
Last summer I was in Australia. One day we went to visit the koalas. Then it
started raining, there was a storm and it didnt stop all morning. It was lunchtime
when the storm stopped .
We went for a walk to Australia . Day 2 in the morning the weather was good
and we were went to the beach. We had a great time, but when we were having
fun we had some thunder. We ran to the car we had and went to a shelter to
avoid getting wet. The last day the weather was good. I've had three good days.

By Marina

THE WORST HOLIDAYS

SKY NEWS: THE FLOODS IN THE UK
Hello, Im Nicole and Im twenty years old and we are live on Sky News. Im in Leeds,
West Yorkshire, with the Dunnars family and theyve been affected by the floods
these days. They are from New Zealand and theyve come to the UK to visit theyre
family. Heres what hes told us:
Hello, Im Nigel from the Dunnars family and we are from New Zealand. We have
come to the UK to visit our family. We arrived four days ago, and we stayed in my
mum and dads B&B. The first day, we went to visit my uncles farm, in Leeds. Then we
went to have lunch with all the family and as we were going to leave, the rain started,
it got worse and worse, so finally, we had to go back to the B&B and stay there. We
were meant to go back home yesterday, but all the flights have been cancelled
because of the heavy rain.
Hopefully, well be able to go home next week. Fingers crossed!
Sky News, 26 December

BY NICOLE

The worst holidays

When I was 11, I had the worst holidays in m life. I went with my parents in a cottage.
The cottage was very far from where I live, it was in Andorra. My father was driving to
Andorra. We stayed three hours for go there. There, we had to find the cottage that it
was inside the mountain. My father it havent got a lot of patience, so when we were
driving up to the mountain. My mother with the GPS that didnt work, we get lost. We

stayed one more hour in the car trying to find the road that takes us to the cottage.
Finally, when we arrived to the cottage, it was raining. There was nobody inside the
house. We waited 30 minutes more in the car because it was raining and started
storming, and the owners of the house hadnt arrived yet. Then the owners arrived at
the house and they gave us the key of the room. The room was dirty, and disorganized.
We went downstairs to get dinner. It consisted in a tomato salad as starter and meat for the
main dish. I hate tomato, and the meat was hard. I went to bed very angry. The next day. We
were going to walk in the mountain. We stayed all the day in the mountain. And in the
afternoon when we had to go to the cottage, we couldnt find the correct road so we lost
again, but in the mountain, we spent one hour for find the correct road. At the end we arrived
in the cottage, we were very tired.
By Sergi

MY WORST HOLIDAY
Last winter I was in my cousins apartment in the France Pyrenees. I went
there with my mother, my brother and my sister.

At first, when we arrived we

unpacked in our bedrooms
and we went to sky resorts
very fast. After 10 days there, already had explained everything because we
hadnt seen each other us
since 2008.
Then, one day, we went to
Henday (in France). We
visited lot of things, went to
a fun park...
At night, when we return to
the apartment everything
was fantastic, but when we
woke up things change a
lot.
It was 3:00 p.m and my mum and my aunt started waking up very fast and
nervously me and my cousins. We left the apartment and when we opened
the door I saw all people crying, shouting, running and it was snowing a lot.
Firefighters made us evacuate the area.

Finally we arrived by a plane to Henday again and 11 days later we could

return to our apartments. There was an avalanche of snow. Nobody was
hurt but we were very nervous.
It was my worst holidays but luckily we are very healthy.
BY: ANDREA

Volcano Eruption
Two summers ago I was in Canarias. I was there with my family. One afternoon when
we were having dinner in the hotel there was a volcano eruption.
Then we went to the car to go away. But there was lava for the entire street.
We and 100 hundred people couldnt scape to the volcano and we went back the
hotel and went upstairs to survive the volcano eruption. We stayed 2 there fordays in
the roof. Then a helicopter took us to a airport and we went home to forget this bad
holiday.
Two years later we went to Canarias again and there wasnt any volcano eruption.
By Enric

My worst holidays
My worst holidays were in 2013. That year there was a terrible earthquake in Barcelona.
All my family were very sad because we have a lot of relatives living there.
Those days were terrible, because anyone of my family knew anything from my
relatives who were in Barcelona when the earthquake occurred.
The next day all family went to Barcelona to visit the relatives. We were lucky. All of
them were alive and we celebrated that two days later with a big party.
In the party all of the people that lived the moment of the earthquake explained to all of
us their experience.
By Lloren

HORRIBLE HOLIDAY
Three summers ago I was in Japan, on holidays.
One day I was visiting Tokyo and suddenly it started raining, as usual cause it was the
Monsoon, but that day, it rained and rained, there was water everywhere, the water
started rising half a meter when all the people started leaving the street and going
home.

Our apartment was far away, so we had to stay in a hotel while everything was
calming, but all the hotels were very busy so we had to search a lot for finding a hotel.
When we found a hotel, we were tired, so we wanted to sleep, but suddenly while we
were putting on our pyjamas the ground started shaking. We had to wait for 3 long
minutes under the bed, luckily any of us was hurt.
We could sleep the time we needed and the next day we continued with our holiday. I
still remember that day as the worst holiday day ever in my entire life.
BY GUILLEM

Last Summer I went to Italy, with my family

and we stayed one week in a small hotel. During the week, we visited
some cities, we stayed to days in Roma, we visited the Coliseum and some
beautiful monuments. Then we visited Florence, Venice and Pisa. The last
day, we stayed in Finale Emilia, a small village in the northern of Italy, near
Bologna. During the morning we visited a castle called the rock it was
very interesting, then we went to visit a vinegar factory. Suddenly, at two
oclock we were having lunch when we heard a noise and the floor started
moving, we didnt pay attention, we thought that it was only a small
movement. After a few minutes we saw houses and some of them were

completely destroyed. People started shouting and running, there were

little children crying because they didnt know what was happening. We
stood up and we stayed in front of the houses waiting that the earthquake
stopped.
This earthquake killed seven people and it destroyed hundreds of
structures like the historic churches, the castle, the tower and thousands
of homes.
BY LAIA

LAST SUMMER
Last summer I went to Spain with my family .
When we were in la Maquinista (A shopping Centre), it stared to rain a lot.
Later, it started thunder and lightning, and we went to the hotel, because
it rained a lot. Later we are looking the mountains into the hotel and we
watched a very big fair. We telephoned the firelighters because the hotel
is next to the mountains. The firefighters came two minutes later.
I was very nervous and Ive got very scary, because the fair its coming. But
the fire fighters put out the fair. And went we went to England we explain
that story to all the friends.
By Pol