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Friday, 17 August 2018

Photo collage writing

I have just boarded a plane from Wellington to Tahiti for my holiday. I have been in the air for about thirty minutes and I start to doze off. Finally, I have reached Tahiti and go to pick up the speedboat that I rented to head off to Bora Bora. I arrive at the island, park up my boat then head to my bungalow that is sitting on stilts just over the clear turquoise water. I settle down in my bungalow and start to unpack my stuff and notice a dark cloud appear but don't think anything of it. Minutes pass and all of a sudden sirens start ringing and people start to panic, you can hear them screaming and people yelling "Run for your lives!" I'm not really sure what is happening so go outside and notice this huge wave approaching at high speed. I quickly get to my boat and I'm not even worried about my stuff. I go to start the boat and there is an issue with the engine.  When I have a look there are kawakawa leaves caught in the propeller! What the heck I'm not even in New Zealand?  So I quickly grab my knife and cut the kawakawa that is caught.  I look up and the wave is only a few hundred meters away and I jump into my seat and start the engine and get going. I put my accelerator down as far as it goes and head alongside the coastline. Then the waves start to get closer and i'm practically surfing and getting higher and higher. As I look back I see all the bungalows completely smashed and people scrambling on the beach as well as monkeys causing chaos. I get so high that all of a sudden my boat gets tipped upside down and metres before I hit the water I hear ...... 'ding dong' and the captain making an announcement that we are about to land at Fa'a'ā airport. Thank God! I was dreaming. 

1 comment:

  1. Good use of different elements from your photo collage, Paikea. I like the way you have included some varied vocabulary and some 'adverb start' sentences. Well done.

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