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Adam Smith        English Coursework        Non Fiction

My trip to Barbados

Until this day I had been enjoying life going to school, visiting family, taking part in sporting activities doing everything a normal child would. It wasn’t until the evening when I returned home from school my parents told me where we were going for a family holiday this year – I could believe it, it had been 3 years since we had been abroad on holiday. I had to wait for my sister to arrive home from getting back from her friends house before they would tell us where we were going.

Finally my sister Rebecca walked in. My mum started to tell us, we were really excited but she kept pausing which kept adding to the amazement of where we would be going. She finally told us by saying “Were going to Barbados” me and my sister just looked at each other in astonishment, we were so cheerful. Now there were the questions we wanted to know like: “When do we fly”, “What airport are we flying from” and “How long is the flight”. We were told all the answers to our questions. In fact we couldn’t believe it because we were flying in 2 days time. This night and the night to come was so hard to sleep, I just couldn’t, I tried so hard. Eventually the day had come, I had set my alarm clock for 6.00am I knew that we were stopping over night in a local hotel as our boarding time was early the next morning and my dad didn’t want to drive to Manchester in the early hours of the morning. We arrived at the hotel where we checked in for the night and we had a family meal in the restaurant. The smells coming from the kitchen were marvellous. Once we had our meal we went back to our rooms where we watched some T.V. and later on went to sleep.

It was about 5am and I was woken up by my Dad, I was so tired from not being able to sleep the nights before coming down to Manchester. We weren’t able to eat breakfast either because it was early in the morning. We went downstairs to the main reception and waited on the concierge for the minibus to take us to the airport. In total we had four cases, with mine being the biggest because I had recently purchased a sea scooter which I would be using in the pool and in the sea. It was a challenge to lift mine into the vehicle but we managed it with a little help from the driver. It took about 10 minutes to get to the airport I kept looking outside the window passing the very little traffic on the roads. The bus dropped us of at terminal 2 and we went through the main doors into the checking in area. We had to take a lift to get to our check in desks, so we went down to our desk and there was a massive queue, I was amazed as it wasn’t check in time yet. I started to doubt that we would get window seats on the plane which would be a disappointment. It got to 7.30 and check in opened and it took about 15 minutes before it was our turn, we were then told by the advisor that the flight had been delayed from Gatwick, London which would have an effect on our boarding time.

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We finally checked in all of our baggage and were given our boarding cards and so we went to the departure lounge where we ate some breakfast – I had a full English breakfast with a glass of orange juice it was really delicious. Once we had eaten our breakfast we had a look around the duty free shops however I didn’t buy anything. After a while we went and took a seat in the departure lounge and waited for more information regarding the status of the flight. According to the display screen the flight was on time, and ...

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