Last Sunday, I decided to make a trip with my friends. When I was thinking what kind of activities was the best one, I realized I had never rowed a canoe on the Charles River since I came to Boston last September, so I called my friends and told that I planned to go to the Charles River and rented a canoe to row.
When I arrived the riverside of the Charles River, there was a boat rental. The weather is sunny, so it was just a day to do this activity. Before we rented a canoe, we had to answer the quizzes about how to handle emergencies on a canoe. For example, when the weather started to lighten, we should find a shelter immediately until it stopped lightening. Moreover, we had to know that what were the direction and the way we should follow or stay. After finishing those quizzes and wearing life jackets, we got a large canoe and some paddles. There were seven people on one canoe, so we needed a leader to conduct this team to make this canoe on the right way. It was no doubt that I was the leader. After we rowed the canoe on the Charles River 30 minutes, the weather was not sunny anymore, and it became cloudy and windy. Bad weather is the trial for the leader of this team. Unfortunately, I was not a perfect leader to manage to row canoe on the right way, so our canoe sailed as an S-type way. Finally, we came back the dock after struggling to row the canoe.
While we walked to home, it was raining heavily. No one knew it was going to rain on that day, so all of us did not bring umbrella. Therefore, we just stayed under a big tree to wait to stop raining. It was lucky for us because we merely waited 20 minutes. A proverb is said,” misfortunes never come singly.” The weather became cold and windy when the rain stopped. We just wore T-shirts and shorts which were a little wet because of the rain. In conclusion, this trip made me knew that Boston weather is changing fast.
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