Day 1 in Koh Samui

Day 1

Today was the start of my holiday! I woke up from my comfortable bed to a clear, sunny day. I had a plain breakfast of bread, seaweed and milk (ohhh, I wanted to have dumplings!) Then it was time to read novels. The novel I was reading was reading is very interesting. It is a war story and a modern classic (which means that it is world famous and very interesting) This story is set in World War 2, when the war is nearly at it’s end. An army of men is about to land on the island of Anopopei to scour the lives of any Japanese soldiers away. The soldiers get onto the landing craft and storm onto the island. The island seems peaceful at first, so the men start digging holes in the sand on the beach to protect themselves from any attack. Suddenly the sky explodes with whistling shells. An unlucky man in one of the holes needs to go and pee, so he ventures from the safety of his own hole to pee in the sea. Unexpectedly, a lone shell comes whistling through the smoky sky. The man turns slowly round…… and screams. 

The body of the man is soon recovered after the huge bombardment of shells is over. Soldiers start advancing through the island, careful to avoid the trees (since it is very humid in a jungle, if you didn’t know). Surprisingly, they meet weak resistance, only a few minor skirmishes here and there. Life is peaceful except for a major storm which wet everything in the camp for 1 or 2 weeks. That soon will change……  

The army soon reaches their first battle on a medium-deep river on the island. A crazy free for all charge of Japanese soldiers frantically try to reach the Americans on the other side of the medium-deep river. The river is still shallow enough to cross, but the river still slows the Japanese considerably, and the American machine guns mow the Japanese down like a lawnmower cuts grass. Soon, the river is littered with bodies. One Japanese man survives, and is captured by the Americans. They treat him like a friend, until they got to a tree, let him close his eyes and lie there. When the Japanese man barely opens his eye with a joyful grin on his face, a rifle bullet cracks through the air and hits the Japanese in the head, turning him into a statue, with a frozen grin. 

That is what I have read so far. We took the comfortable airport bus to airport. It was amazing to cross the majestic suspension bridge called the Ching Ma bridge. We arrived at the airport. The airport is an abnormally large airport, which is more like a shopping mall and an airport combined. It has a spacious interior, which is silver. From there we took a plane to a Thai island called Koh Samui. On the way, there was a stupid whining Thai boy sitting in front of me, and I suspected that there was an American couple sitting behind me. In Koh Samui we met Alec and Milos and went to a restaurant on a beautiful beach, and ate a majestic range of seafood, staying there until midnight (which is pretty late)

Here is my view of our home:

It has a majestic view, where land, sea and air combine to make a classic landscape. The only problem which affects the view is the high pollution index of Hong Kong. Our house is very large for Hong Kong standards, which is 1900 square feet. The furniture is very modern. The main colors of our house are black, brown and white. The house sits in midair, about 25 storeys up.   

Here is my view about the trip to the airport:

The most amazing feature about the trip to the airport is crossing the two suspension bridges that link New Territories to Lantau island. The sea looks as if you could lift it up, like a huge translucent block. The mountains rise and fall like the waves on the sea, like green infested waves. The sky is most of the time a crisp blue, very clear and cheery. It is a wonderful sight indeed.

 

 

Here is my view of the airport:

 

 

People have recently opened a new terminal in an already large airport. There are hundreds of small bustling shops, making you twist your head like a screwdriver to see the twinkling lights in the shops. There is a 4D cinema, which basically means that you can actually feel what’s going on in the movie you’re watching. Terminal 1 of the airport is so large that they have to put flat escalators and even a subway train to get to you gate. The entrance to the gate has lots of seats, so you won’t have to worry about comfort in waiting. Have a great time in the airport!

Here is my view about the Thai restaurant:

An amazing feat to behold! This is a marvelous and unique restaurant because it is built directly behind a beach! The seafood is delicious and ranges from mussels to Tong Yin soup. When I was there, the sky was as black as ink. But if it was in the morning, the view would be unparallel to anything you’ve seen before. So have a merry time in this Thai restaurant!

After a 3 hour flight we finally arrived at Koh Samui Airport. Amazingly, there is no arriving hall at the airport. Everybody stands outdoors to do the passport check, and the airplanes scream behind us while they take off. We are only 10 meters from the runway! During the flight I had a couple of cokes. Therefore, you can imagine what I did at the airport.

 This is the toilet of Samui Airport