Imagine you recently travelled in a local train for almost an hour. Write a paragraph [150 words] describing your experience of the journey. Use sensory details.
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A journey is always pleasant to me. It not only gives us entertainment, but it is also helpful to teach over different unknown issues as well. The most important benefit of travelling is the excellent opportunity to gather knowledge. The knowledge earned in first-hand experience cannot be found in books or any other place. So, people like to travel and it a trend for a long past. But sometimes the journeys are not pleasant and the travellers have to undergo different unexpected situations during the trips.
Recently I have made a train journey and it was the most thrilling event in my life as I have never ridden on trains before. I went to join at the marriage ceremony of one of my intimate friends who has passed his childhood days with me. The area where the friend is getting married is at the farthest part of the country and requires trains to reach there.
Fourteen of our childhood friends planned to reach the village marking the marriage and accordingly we bought fourteen train tickets for the purpose. My friends and his family members had started for the village earlier before our journey. On the planned night of the journey, we got out of home reached the railway station to catch the train. But interestingly the train was half an hour late due to an accident on its way to the railway station. We all rode the train and finally, the journey at night on a train begins.
It was the most thrilling experience in my life I have ever made so far. It was highly enjoyable to me due to the nature of the journey. I used to hear experiences of people attentively when they described their experiences about the train journeys but could not ride on a train due to different reasons. So, when the other childhood mates made the plan, I was the only one of them who jumped out of joy.
The journey is a truly substantial one for me. It was a moonlit night when the train started and my seat was just beside the window. I looked at the full moon and it appeared that I am floating in heaven with great speed. The trees were passing us fast and the illuminated distant localities appeared like stars to me, shining on the large sky. The deep emotions that I felt on the night journey are inexpressible.
Well, the journey I still remember very vividly is the one I took to Nha Trang, a coastal resort city in southern Vietnam, where my sister lives with her husband. It was probably early February 2014 when I got a call from my brother-in-law that my sister has given birth to a beautiful baby girl. We were expecting the baby a few days later but that was indeed very good news as this was the first baby in our family and both the mother and child were doing fine as my brother-in-law informed me.
I immediately returned home from my university to give this wonderful and happy news to my parents. My parents were quite excited and they planned to visit the newborn and my sister on the following day. It was more than 10 hours’ journey and we started in the early morning the next day.
We went to the local train station and luckily got three first-class seats on the train. I am very fond of the train journey as it gives me the freedom to walk in different compartments of the train, read books pleasantly, enjoy the meal in the train cafeteria, buy books and magazines, use the lavatory if needed and enjoy the scenic beauty of the countryside, unlike the monotonous long bus journey. The journey was a very pleasant one and I finished a book that I took with me. Besides, I read two magazines and a daily newspaper that I bought from the station. I specifically remember the journey because my parents were with me and they also enjoyed being out of home after a long. The longing and waiting to see the new baby also made it a pleasant journey and a memorable one. My mother told me some stories of my childhood that she never shared with me before and my father told me about his first experience on a train and that was so funny that we laughed quite loudly!