Authors Note: This is my Fall writing assessment for school. Look for how Jamaica is.
Last year
for Christmas, I went to Jamaica. We went to a huge resort called Gran Bahia Principe with a long pool with a water
polo goals and a pool bar, a long beach along the ocean and five really
good restaurants.
On the
day before Christmas Eve we went to a restaurant that only served a
buffet. We met two Canadian Guys, a father and son. The son was in hid low to mid 20’s, and his
father was about 50. After they got up to get dessert they accidently table
jumped when they sat down for dessert. The son came first and sat down thinking
it was theirs and then the father sat down across from the son, he didn’t even
look if it was his table. So the waitress came over and looked at their table
and was thinking where did they go. My parents told me to say something to them
and give them a hard time jokingly. We talked a little bit and then they left
so we could eat our dinner. After we ate our dinner we went up to a lobby bar
area and we got some drinks, and we saw them. We walked over to them and we
talked. My sister kept on saying “eh”, and the son said “Hey that’s my thing”.
After 45 minutes or so we left and went up to bed.
On
Christmas Eve day we got up and went to the pool. While I was in the pool my
parents met some other parents, they were from Canada, and they had a son about
10 years old then (I was 11). He was in the shallow end of the pool so I went
over to him and introduced myself. He was playing catch with someone else and I
just joined in. A bit later we went to the deeper end of the giant pool. He and I became good friends at the resort.
When my family and I would be in the lobby bar area in the resort and their
family is there too, I would go to him.
On
Christmas we went to the buffet place to have Christmas dinner. There was about
anything that you might have for Christmas dinner. Turkey was the main dish.
There was also little things like buns and stuff like that. After the dinner we
went up to the lobby dinner area. My sister and I went up to bed after midnight
and then later my parents came up and went to bed. For Christmas we brought
really small stocks like the size of my dad’s feet. I got barely anything, just
melted M&M’s and a pack of Extra Gum. We met my new friend at the pool and
played a game of water polo. My dad, sister and I met someone from New Jersey,
it was him and 3 other people from New Jersey, we just called him Jersey. My
family and I ended that day by going to this one place where we heard was a
good souvenir shop in the shopping part of the resort. We barely got anything
from there but while we were at the souvenir shop there was a concert on this
stage in one side of the shopping center. It was Jamaicans playing songs on
drums and marimbas. They played the United States National Anthem and the
Canadian National Anthem. It was really cool. Then after that my family and I
went up to the lobby bar area. The next day we had to leave so we had to get
out of the room by 10:00 on the way to the airport we had a private bus with
only us in it. We went through towns and down the old highway. Our bus driver
was pretty funny and on the back of the driver’s seat it said 007, so my
family, him and I were joking around with that.
My trip
to Jamaica was good, I made some friends, learned about a new culture, and had
a great time there. I would like to go back to Jamaica and do more activities
like zip lining. If I could go back there I would.