Dear Diary, 

Today I went to the beach. I saw a big boat and I asked my parents what type of boat it was. They replied and said it was a ferry, and they also said we can go on it right now 

because it will leave in 5 minutes. I replied straightaway saying yes please, let’s definitely go! As those 5 minutes past, I started to feel butterflies in my tummy. But I thought no, we are still going to 

on the big boat because it will 99.9% be amazing! So, when it was time to hop on, I ran all the way to the front of the boat to get the best view. My parents followed behind me. As I sat

down, I was jumping in my seat! I was so excited! I heard the big announcement saying: In the event of a crash, life jackets will be stored under the seat. As I heard that, I thought of course there won’t be a crash. Well, most likely. I had to wait a long

time for all the passengers to hop on. It took about 5 minutes. I was so excited as we started to move. But for some reason, the ferry we were on started to turn around. Fortunately, daddy said that it was spinning

on purpose. After that I started writing in my diary. 

15 minutes later,

Dear Diary,

I have some terrible news. 

Really unfortunately, I fell asleep on the boat. As I was asleep, there must have been an announcement saying: everyone, collect your life jackets and hop of the boat. So, I got left on the boat all by myself. But do you

want to know why everyone had to get off the ferry? Well, there was a seal near the boat in the water and it was playing with a fish. It was doing cool tricks with the fish in it’s mouth but it was a trick and instead of the fish

landing in the seal’s mouth, it landed in the boat’s motor. So the ferry was going to break down any minute. So that’s why I was left on the boat by myself.

I am now running all around the boat looking for a spare life jacket.