{"id":5803,"date":"2019-04-22T03:12:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T03:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/phillippines?p=5803"},"modified":"2019-04-22T10:26:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T10:26:29","slug":"story-by-a-contestant-1-it-was-mid-april-2019-that-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/story-by-a-contestant-1-it-was-mid-april-2019-that-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Story by a contestant (#1): It was Mid-April 2019 That Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5805 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/phillippineswp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/04_13_19.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/04_13_19.png 820w, https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/04_13_19-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/04_13_19-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/04_13_19-125x48.png 125w, https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/04_13_19-75x29.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am a ten year old Filipino boy who has cousins having a trip to the United States and today they are coming home at Philippines. I went to ask my mother \u201cAre they coming home?\u201d \u201cYes\u201d, my mother replied. Later at night I slept and thought we were going to an amusement park, I imagined myself riding a roller coaster and my second thought was going to Hong Kong, riding a boat, but when I woke up in the morning and saw my mother packing swimsuits. \u201cMother, why are you packing swimsuits?\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re going to Isla Verde\u201d \u201cMother, I thought were going to the amusement park\u201d I complained \u201cSon, you\u2019ve got to accept that we\u2019re not going there\u201d Mother said. So we went to the airport and I greeted my cousins \u201cWelcome back\u201d \u201cThank you\u201d my cousins said. So we hitched a ride in a via plane. \u201cOkay, now we\u2019re going to Isla Verde\u201d father said, but I was still thinking about amusement parks and Hong Kong , but when father said \u201cEveryone get out of the plane\u201d \u201cWhy father?\u201d I asked, \u201cBecause were going to that very large ship to our destination\u201d Father replied, so he parked the car and we took a ride. I felt bored, so I took a notebook and pencil and drew the waves and the island until Bump! A loud noise freaked us out. I checked the window and saw ourselves at the coast of the island. We went out of the ship and Father took his car our of the ship too. We went swimming and diving, some tried snorkeling. My Father accidentally left the car keys in his swimming shorts my father dived Splash! The keys floated out of his pocket \u201cOh no, the keys\u201d he yelled when a crab caught the keys and gave it to father. We were amazed on what the crab had done. Father happily replied to the crab \u201cThank you\u201d, then the crab snapped his claws. Snap! As if he were saying \u201cYou\u2019re Welcome\u201d. Then we saw a park with horse rides we requested our parents \u201ccan we ride too\u201d \u201cYes you may\u201d all the parents said and we rode the horses and they took pictures of us, and we soon left the park.<\/p>\n<p>Next we had a delicious feast, they were so delicious that I tried them all, and my uncle told us about their trip around the campfire. Later we went to a hotel and stayed for a month. It was fun at the hotel we told stories, watched TV, we even played games. A month later we\u2019re going home and my friends are traveling to Cebu. At home, I had the most exciting thought of all, what could my next summer vacation be like. So I took my notebook again and drew what my summer would be like. But when I thought about the summer vacation I just had, I drew the story liked comic. My sister shouted \u201cDinnertime\u201d and I went to the table and my mother and father came as well and I saw my plate and it was the delicious food I ate back at Isla Verde, and I saw another bag full of swimsuits I asked \u201cwhy are there swimsuits in the bag\u201d \u201cWe\u2019re going to to a resort with your other cousins\u201d Mother said. I felt tired from Isla Verde but I had few more energy to swim at the resort. When I went to bed, I thought of school, my new classmates and I found out I have to get through that before the next summer comes. At the resort, we had a splendid time and it was like Isla Verde and the lunch was like there to. I\u2019m just happy that in this whole year, summer can stay with us, and when this summer ends, wait for the next one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><em>This short story was written during the Young Authors Competition on April 13, 2019 held at UEC Batangas City.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I am a ten year old Filipino boy who has cousins having a trip to the United States and today they are coming home at Philippines. I went to ask my mother \u201cAre they coming home?\u201d \u201cYes\u201d, my mother replied. Later at night I slept and thought we were going to an amusement park, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5803"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5839,"href":"https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions\/5839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catherinekhoo.sg\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}