Re: Subin Lee / First Draft / Thursday 1-3pm

2016-09-27 10:22 GMT+09:00 이수빈 <lsbin615@gmail.com>:

Do you have an experience of finding out that something is very different from your expectations? For me and my family, we had such experience when we went travelling to Italy.

 

My family and I went to Italy in the summer of ___. We had travelled to many different countries, but Italy was my mother's favorite place of all time. She was eagerly anticipating for another trip to Italy. The rest of the family was also looking forward to it as well; we had spent a great time in our last trip to Rome and Venice.

 

Finally our vacation started, and we got ready for the trip to Italy. My parents rented a car so that we could drive around the country, and prepared money to use. I was also extremely delighted as I packed my stuff – at this point I never knew what would happen in our trip.

 

My family started off our trip joyously. We were awed by the old architectures around us, from which we could imagine the prosperity the country had enjoyed. It was hard to believe the picturesque scenery that we were facing. The first few days in Italy seemed perfect. And just like always, pick pocketing seemed like a word that didn't matter to us at all.

 

After spending a wonderful time in ___, our family decided to go to Firenze. It was in the evening when we arrived in the rural part of the city and started looking for accommodations. It was especially difficult to find one that day. Finally my dad found some signposts saying that there is a hotel, and we followed it. But where it led us was an ordinary house that didn't quite seem like a hotel. The fences were closed, and there were no other cars or travelers around. We started to wonder why. Because the 'hotel' felt different and strange, the rest of the family suggested looking for other accommodations; my dad got off the car to ask an inquiry. He rang the doorbell, but no answer came from it. Dad explained that we followed the hotel sign, and asked if we could stay here. Still no answer came from the house. The rest of us in the car were muttering, saying how it probably isn't a hotel and how it would be much better to go look for some other place instead of asking this odd accommodation. It was just then; three dogs suddenly ran out of the house and charged towards dad.