An Exciting Experience and a Time I felt confused - Amanda Fung

One of my most exciting experiences was when my two sons had their first time in a dragon boat race. They are in different schools and different teams. It was my first experience of watching a dragon boat race at Lake Merced. I felt very excited. On that day, there were many participants from other schools and their families. My sons had many different races. When the race started, it was extremely loud. All the people were very excited. They were shouting and yelling. I stayed until all the races ended. I remembered it was a sunny and windy day but I forgot to use sunscreen. At the end of the day, I got a tan. Finally, they got some medals. They were very happy and they got more experience during the race. I recalled in my student life when I was young; I never had a chance to join these kinds of activities in my school. My sons are very lucky. They are not only learning knowledge from books, they are also learning how to cooperate and communicate with each other. It was a very good experience for them. This weekend, they will have a big race at Lake Merced again. I hope they will enjoy the day.






I had never forgot when my older sister and I were in San Francisco for the first time, we got lost in downtown. One day, my mother, two sisters, and I walked to downtown from my younger sister's house. We were very happy to shop around in the mall until 5:00pm. My mother and younger sister needed to go home early to prepare the dinner. My older sister and I remembered the buildings which was used walked back home. When the traffic light turned to green, we wanted to cross the road. Suddenly, a car made a turn. We felt confused about it because it never happened in my country. We must keep our eyes open. We continued shopping until 6:30pm. The sky was a little bit dark. We decided to walk back home. Unfortunately, we passed the buildings and continued to walk down the street. When we walked and walked, I had never seen the street's name before. It was very strange. We were confused how to go back home. We felt very nervous. We didn't remember the home phone number. Our English was limited. The sky was getting darker and darker. This was very confusing. What should we do? We tried to remember how to go back home, but we couldn't. Some building were similar. It made us confused. At that moment, we saw a police officer and he also can speak chinese. He asked us the address where we wanted to go. We were shocked! We didn't know the exact address. We only knew my younger sister's house was on Powell Street. The police officer asked us what was the cross street. We were shocked again! Oh my goodness! We were confused again. We only knew China Town. We said if we can go to China Town, then we should know how to walk home. Finally, the police officer asked us follow Broadway Street, which will bring us to China Town. At the end, we finally returned home at 7:30pm and copied the address and phone number, in case we get lost again.