Short autobiographical account of a memory...
One of my best memories so far is visiting NYC. It was a school trip in February 2014. After nearly a whole 24 hours of travelling, no one ceased to be amazed by every single thing that vaguely reminded them of the fact that we were actually in New York, even down to the tiny souvenirs such as a coffee from the Starbucks store in JFK airport. Although we were all struggling to maintain keeping our eyes from closing, these small things thrilled us to our cores knowing we were finally here after all the time we had spent travelling!
As we stepped out of the air-fogged, automatic doors of the airport, the iciness and bitterness of the air sank into our lungs, causing us all take a prolonged, deep breath to restore normality to our usually warm bodies which were now full with icy cold air. It was winter time in New York so it was like this like this for the majority of the time we there. We did not get used to it, we just simply learnt to wear more layers to protect ourselves from the fierce cold. Later, arrived a blue taxi (not the stereotypical yellow taxi you normally associate with New York) with only enough seats for half of us. Some people fought to get into the taxi to hide away from the cold whilst others were happy to stay and wait for the next taxi, whilst they would remain outside JFK airport still trying to contain their joy over the fact they were in New York.
After the squabbles of who got to get in the first taxi were over, we all arrived to our rooms and almost immediately passed out on our beds. After our short power naps, we were rushed straight back out the door again to endeavor on an adventure in Times Square, which was even more amazing when lit up at night. A lot of what we did over the next several days are a blur as it all happened so quickly but I know that we all made some spectacular memories in an amazing city! I can't wait to hopefully visit New York again when I'm older and see a different side to it rather than all the tourist attractions.
Brilliant Georgia, lots of complex sentences packed with imagery, which is essential for travel writing; you've really captured the style so well done. You only had a short space to write, as this is your first piece, so you can't get into too much detail, but I think this could be developed even further when we look at travel writing in more depth so think about changing up the sentence structure a bit with adding more simple sentences as afterthoughts, and using some lexical sets, etc. Just a thought! Well done, I think it's great!
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