by Julia Aika F. Mamacos
Delta Discovery Park… I never thought the day would come when I’d actually go to a place filled with adventure, where we could discover a whole lot of amazing things.
As I thought about this, I had mixed feelings of fear and excitement. But I brushed it off, because there’s no fear in adventure, but adventure takes away all fears.
It started out with a good morning for me (and hopefully for everyone) . I finally woke up after a nice, relaxing sleep I had. I opened my laptop to see what the time was when my eyes suddenly widened.. It was about 9:30 am and my fellow DPSA members were planning to continue on with our garage sale at 8:30 am. I never wanted to miss this milestone. So, even if I slept light, I shrugged it off and started getting busy.
I arrived at school 5 minutes before 1pm to be extra early. And then, I saw I was just in time.
When all of us were present (and probably ready), I told my dad to pick us up and take us to Sports Complex where my classmate’s mom hired a jeepney to take us to Delta.
The sky didn’t look good at all. Some of us had a feeling it was gonna rain pretty hard.
And guess what?
It did.
It rained REALLY hard.
The roads were getting really wet and slippery.
We had to wait for the jeepney to arrive, worried that our trip to Delta would be postponed just because of the rain but then, like a red pegasus, it swiped all of us to a high way to Delta.
We were relieved…
We got on the jeepney one by one. On the way, we took some pictures. Even before Delta, everything looked light and….friendly. And finally took a deep breathe when we all saw…
“Delta Discovery Park
This Way! —>”
When I saw the sign, I felt excitement mix with the blood in my body, thinking of all the fun things we’re gonna be doing there.
I thanked God as we arrived safely at our dormitory. Yup, it was reaaally safe.
It looked nice. All the things were neatly placed. Their bathroom was also clean (one that lacks in hotels). They had comfy beds, too. So, without thinking, I dived to the bed like it was a swimming pool. It was more than just satisfying.
After the meeting, one of our teachers told us that we could swim in the pool.
The first thing I thought was, “OH YESSSS!!”
We were all excited, quickly preparing to go to the pool, with adrenalines trembling
After dressing up to our proper swimming attires, we got to the jeepney.
We only brought our towels, cameras and wide smiles on our faces.
When we arrived there, I was amazed at the place. The surroundings had NATURE written all over them.
There were 2 pools, the deep one and the one that wasn’t deep. We HAD to go to the pool that wasn’t deep since the other pool was too deep for us. But to sum it up, every single pool was amazing.
The other boys immediately jumped into the pool. After we placed our towels in a small room, we slowly got into the pool.
The water was FREEZING. But it feels really good. Though the water is like ice, it’s more soothing than soaking yourself in a pool of ice.
We only got to swim until 6pm so we had no choice but to stop even though we didn’t want to stop yet because the pool…all though there are a lot of pools in the world, it was…different. I’m not kidding!
All of us who swam took a short shower before drying ourselves up.
And then the “red pegasus” swiped us again back to our dormitories this time.
When we finally arrived at our dormitory (with faces that wanted to dip more), we were racing to the bathroom to take a shower.
After that, we ate a delicious and satisfying dinner. I need to say YUM!
We end up never asking for more. But then, the really hospitable staff offered us coffee and milo for free!!
I thought there wouldn’t be anything better than this.
But, there is.
One of my classmates found an amazing view of Butuan City. I saw my classmates going with him then I made up my mind. I followed them. I was carefully bringing the hot choco. I wasn’t being careful enough so it spilled. It felt painful for a little while but when I saw the view… 3 words…
IT.WAS.AMAZING.
And in a split second, everything was fine again. Delta is an awesome remedy.
I never thought Butuan City at night would look THIS amazing. (better than it was by day.)
The night lights made the city beautiful…
My classmate said he saw a firefly so I tried to look for one and… yes… I saw one.
It was the very first time I saw one. Pretty silly, right?
Hahaha. Fireflies are pretty rare to me but I don’t know why it’s so common to other people.
I looked up the sky and saw a lot of stars… The night sky looked very marvelous. Maybe even as marvelous as the view I was looking at.
I wanted to keep on looking at the view forever but we had to go back to our dormitory.
After that, we went inside the place where we heard music and my classmate asked if we could request songs and the guy who was in-charge of the thing that was playing music gave us instructions. We played a lot of songs but didn’t let even one song finish. After that, we decided to go back to out dormitory. The song we left playing was “Buffalo Soldier” by Bob Marley.
…I have no idea why we left that song playing…
Anyway…
We were back at our dormitory, the others were already on their beds, including me.
The boys were scaring us. Well, they were trying to scare us. It’s not like it affected us, though.
After that, we ate some junk food the other members brought and it was finished faster than our dinner.
The best part of the night was chatting about our first day in Delta. We had fun chatting. We smiled and we laughed.
Some of us worried about the honeybee that went in our dormitory for some reason… But one of my classmates captured it with a plastic cup and paper. I’m not sure if it’s gonna sting us all back for revenge or if only the one that captured it would get stinged. Unfortunately, when he threw the cup out, he didn’t get to set it free. Poor bee. But yes, we had to do that.
After that, we settled down, prepared our beds and went to sleep.
Yes, the day was full of adventure wasn’t it?
Well it was for me. Body freezing, bee capturing.
Before sleeping, I thought of all the other fun things I would get to experience tomorrow. But another day did the thinking for me.
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