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Unforgettable Journey

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The Unforgettable Journey from My Childhood
The weather is crisp; it is late night and I cannot sleep. As I look at the sky from the window that is close to my bed, stars are shining like the gleam of swords. They make me get a cup of tea and get out of the bedroom. The light breeze is blowing while I am sitting on the chair in the middle of the yard. Now, in my mind I go to the past. To the time, when there were no worries and tensions. I am not a child anymore, but when I remember memories from the past, I can see the amazing things I used to do when I was younger. Nothing could be as much exciting as the journeys I had with my family. I love to go back in time to one of the significant and eventful journeys I had with my older brother that …show more content…

This house is enormous and surrounded by mighty trees. Besides, it is old but its importance is too much because our grandparents lived in it. We have our breakfast prepared in the room where our grandfather used to have. Aromas of the traditional cookies in the breakfast make me keep eating. After the breakfast, I went to the room which was filled with books that my grandfather used to read and I opened some of those precious and musty books. Among the books, my eyes spotted a small, dusty notebook. This is my grandfather’s notebook. I started reading it. The more I read it the more I knew about the things that gave pain to my grandfather and he wrote about them in this notebook. I felt proud when I knew how he struggled with huge problems in his life. The last things I can never forget about this day were the delicious food that we ate in lunch, and swimming in the pool that was inside the house.
Eventually, we visited the nearby village in the last day of our stay. Villagers of that nearest village knew us; therefore, we decided to see them in the final day. Instead of car, we preferred to walk to the village. I wondered by the brilliant hospitality of those villagers. As we entered to the village, children of the villagers welcomed us with nice flowers in their hands. Few of the villagers accompanied us and took us to their houses. We enjoyed and the memories

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