121. Alone in the Desert

                                                  By H A R I N I

Alone in the desert, I was thirsty, starving, and most of all, no humans!! I closed my eyes and had the visions of the joyful moments before the crash of the plane, friends, family, the excitement. It has come to be this way because of a horrendous plane crash! I was among 174 people and we were on our way to Hawaii when… Crash!!! All of the passengers, including me, were stranded in The Sonoran Desert in Arizona!! 

I was in the airport with all my friends who were, Rarity, Alexandra and my best friend Oksana. We were all going on a vacation to Hawaii and we were so excited! We all saw our parents and hugged them and said that we would surely miss them. Right that second, we heard our airplane number called, and we arrived just in time. I sat next to the window with Oksana, and Alexandra sat with Rarity. We were all talking about where we should first go when we got to Hawaii, when BLAST! CRASH!! KABOOM!!! I quickly escaped from the airplane and dragged my friends and two other people behind me and then the plane had blasted!! I guessed that the fuel tank had exploded and had caused the whole plane to detonate.                            

The next thing I know we were all in a desert. I looked around and realized that the plane had crashed, there were debris everywhere! I looked at my best friends and they were all far from being alive! I looked at Oksana and she had ghastly injuries. I saw her and my eyes completely filled with tears! I then set off to find the 5 things that a human being needs to survive, namely water, food, shelter, warmth, and self-defenses.              

                                                 

As I remember, in science, humans can go up to three weeks without eating food, 3 days without drinking water, and three hours without any shelter. I decided to make a shelter and I had no luck, luckily, I found a cave, and made a home. My next priority is to find water, I had a little pocket knife so I cut a fish hook cactus which is not poisonous unlike all other cacti which cause vomiting and sickness. And I safely opened the fish hook cactus and I found water, and got a few gallons of water, which is enough to last us for about a month. Lastly, food, me and my friends brought some food in case we didn’t like the airplane food. I got all of the food and I went to eat along with my friends. With the first aid kit from the plane, and I did some first aid stuff for my friends and the two other people I rescued from the crashed plane.

Night came and it was starting to get cold, I wrapped my coat around me and I felt warm. I watched at the marvelous sight and I wondered if I would ever see the scenery again. I became mesmerized at looking at the stars and I finally fell asleep. I kept this as my routine and continued this for a week. One day, I was getting tired of being deserted in the desert so I went out to get some help.

                                                       

As I was wandering around, I spotted a helicopter and decided to wave for help. I don’t know if they noticed me, yet, I kept waving. I stopped when they saw me, and I was given a ladder to climb. When I was at the top, I was safely examined to make sure that I was not hurt. Then when we were about to leave, I asked them if I could bring my friends and two other survived passengers, and they said yes, I went over there, and I saw my friends. I dragged them over to the helicopter and they were carefully aboard when one of the people said that they couldn’t fit one more. I told them to go on without me and come back.

                                         

   

I said no problem and saw them drift away, I lay stranded in the desert and lived until my days had come. I know that I had done the right thing by letting my friends go before me. I hope that they all remember me, especially my best friend Oksana.

by Harini, Grade IV