you were on a school trip and on the way back to the hotel late one night when your school bus full of children broke down in a lonely area describe what you saw and experienced as you looked around. how was the problem solved?
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I will never ever forget this incident that happened in my life while returning from a school trip to the Sunderbans.
It must have been around midnight that I was jolted from my slumber. The bus was jolting before the engine died down. Hard as they tried to revive the engine, Surinder, the driver and Juginder, the conductor did not succeed.
I was
seated in the third row next to the window. Looking out, I saw dense jungle
beside the road. Juginder by this time had got down and opening the bonnet was
inspecting inside. Both of our teachers were also wide awake now and stretching
their arms they alighted from the bus.
Some of us got down too, and stood at the edge of
the road to empty our bowels.
I was one of them, with me were two of my
classmates – Ayush and Manish. As the three of us finished our nature’s call,
Manish the daredevil amongst us, dared us to enter the thick woods. I
immediately scoffed at him and started coming back, but Ayush took the bait and
began to coerce me. Seeing Manish’s I-know-you-cowards smile, I relented. As
Ayush and me stepped into the dense undergrowth, we heard a rustle as if some
animal just scurried away. Determined to prove Manish wrong, but our hearts
beating faster, we both of us tiptoed ahead, each trying to use the other as a
shield. By this time, all lights and voices of the road had been left behind
and as we began to move slowly ahead, pushing leaves and branches out of the
way, enveloped in pitch darkness, what we saw in front of us sent a chill down
my spine and every time I recall it, I feel my throat go dry and pulse race. In
front of us a tall apparition in white, the top part melting away into the
trees.
Even now, I can’t stop the shivers whenever I see it in my mind’s eye.