Recount+Writing

Fiji Holiday

When I opened m eyes I was freezing cold when I woke up on the floor, but I didn’t care because it was finally the day. I was so excited school ended yesterday, me and my family are going to Fiji for two weeks and one day. My dad Sachin, my mum Susana, my younger brother Sudhish and my oldest sister Upashna woke up at around six or seven am had a shower and ate some cereal, and then put the luggage in the car and left for the Airport. Our first flight that was booked for ten am and same with the twelve pm flight. The manager of Air Pacific told my family and I that we could go on the four pm flight, or we could come back tomorrow and pay half price for tickets. While my dad and some other passengers were complaining. We had a meal at McDonald’s because we only had a bowl of cereal for breakfast, and my little brother was hungry. My dad came back ten to fifteen minutes later and said that we were able to go on the twelve pm flight. We finished our McDonald’s, then went to the desk to check in our passports and all the luggage then we boarded the plane. My family and I took our seats. Then the captain of the plane welcomed everyone, he also said that it would be a two hour and forty minute flight to Nadi in Fiji. I tried to fall asleep but I couldn’t. I can never fall asleep on Aeroplanes, since I couldn’t fall asleep the only movie that was on was’ Cats and Dogs the Revenge of Kitty Galore’. It was so...... boring. But finally the words the words I was waiting for we were about to land in ten minutes. I looked down on Fiji it was so dark, because Fiji isn’t wealthy enough to put road lights.

When my family and I got out of the Airport the first thing I noticed was that it was so hot and very hard to breathe. I asked my mum why is it so hard to breathe, my mum told me it was because the air is very humid. We stayed in a hotel about two minutes away from the Airport because it was too late to drive to the capital city of Fiji ‘Suva’. It’s about a three or a three and a half our drive to Suva. So we checked into the hotel and saw the pool we ran to our room got changed and went back to the pool. We swam in it from eight till eleven pm. The pool was so big, warm, but deep. We woke up at around seven thirty in the morning, had a swim for an hour and a half, ate breakfast, then left for Suva. It was a three hour drive. I finally fell asleep but sadly it was only for about a couple of seconds because the roads in Fiji are very poorly made they were very bumpy. When we got to my dad’s sister’s house we all hugged gave them gifts and then went inside. I saw my cousins who live in New Zealand too and also came to Fiji for a holiday, but they came on the tenth of December one week before us. My family and I stayed there for five days. We played with my auntie’s baby girl, soccer, play station, tag and more. On the twentieth of December was my sisters birthday she turned twenty, and then two days later it was my aunties little baby girls birthday she turned one. The next morning we all packed our bags and all left for a place called ‘Sigatoka’ it was a two hour drive. My family and I drove past Sigatoka on the way to Suva.

When the families got there we all roamed around the place when all the kids saw the pool we all ran to our room in the resort got changed and had a very long swim. We all went swimming for around three hours everyday and also played heaps of volleyball and soccer. For the next three days the families spent Christmas there. We also did secret Santa I got a very nice T-Shirt from my auntie I thanked her for the gift. When the three days were over we packed our bags, said our goodbyes got into the car and went out separate ways. My family and I were off to Nadi again and they were going back to Suva. I was so happy because we already drove two hours from Suva to Sigatoka so it was only a one hour drive to Nadi. When we arrived in Nadi we went to my favourite hotel in Fiji. We last went there four or five years ago. We booked in out room in the resort. It’s a two story hotel and is very luxurious. We stayed there for five days. We played a lot of Tennis and did heaps of Swimming, my family and I also spent New Years there and stayed up till twelve am for the countdown and fireworks. When my mum, dad, sister, brother and I woke up it was eight am we all had our showers got packed and left. My family and I got to go on a massive plane it had mini TV’s on the back of each head seat. I watched a movie called ‘Cool Runnings’ the whole time. When we landed and got out of the Airport, we were able to get picked up by my uncle he dropped us off at home. I said to myself I wish we were still in Fiji.