A Special Moment I Enjoyed With my Family

               During the 2010 December holidays, my mum and I went to Hong Kong for a robotics competition. You see, my mum is a teacher at VJC and it was coincidental that the robotics team for VJC was going for a competition during the holidays and she was asked to be the teacher-in-charge. She thought that it would be good for me to go and experience how a competition was like and she also wanted me to be a photographer at the same time so that I could practice my photographic skills. My poor Dad got left behind as my Mum did not want people to think that our whole family was going on a holiday.

 The VJC robotics team

           We left on 15 November, on a Cathay Pacific flight. I had lots of fun on the plane, as the in-flight entertainment system was packed full of new movies. I selected a few action movies and settled down to watch them. The service was very good and the only thing that was unsatisfactory is that the in-flight entertainment system switched off 10 minutes due to the descend of the plane.
            You might be asking why this is unsatisfactory, and the thing is, I was watching a movie at that time that had 10 minutes left, and it was the climax of the whole movie, and I was very angry that they had switched it off!
            However, my Mum managed to calm me down by telling me jokes like: "Plane: Control Tower, this is CX797, we have an unexpected delay. Control Tower: What is the delay? Plane: One of our passengers is demanding that we delay landing because he wants to finish watching the last 10 minutes of his movie!"
         I was tickled pink by her joke, and decided not to be angry about it.
         Soon, we had collected our baggage at the airport and proceeded to the hotel.We spent 5 days at Hong Kong.

  The hotel room

         The first 4 days was uneventful and all I did was to take photos of the team competeing and I took 3 videos of their robots competing. The prize presentation was the best part as the teams from VJC won 2nd postition. The students were all cheering wildly when the trophy was given out. I guess that their hard work paid off!
    The last day was the most fun as I bought a iPad and bought lots of souvenirs to give my Dad back home. I liked the iPad the most as I like technology and the games on it are quite nice and most of all, it's free!
    We went home on the 21 of November and sadly, the plane we were on was not upgraded and it did not have any videos on it for me to watch...... Luckily, I had my new iPad to keep me company on the way back so I was not bored.
     During the whole trip, my mum and I shared a lot of jokes and we also bought a lot of things and we had the chance to connect with each other, to understand each other more, unlike normal days when we are all very busy and we don't have time to bond with each other.

     It was certainly an eventful trip and I gained a lot of experience such as the saying ' You reap what you sow.'
     It was of course a special moment I enjoyed with my family!