The Lantern Festival was fun! By Angelina T

On a hot hot sunny Saturday the 11th of February , my family and I went to the Lantern Festival made by the Auckland council two weeks ago.  This was a celebration for the Chinese new year.

First, my cousins came over to our house from Mangere so we could go to the Lantern Festival together.  First we had to get dressed and ready to go l wore a blue top and some gery jeans soon we were ready to go the adults travelled in the car and my siblings, cousins and i took the train because we thought it would be fun and it was because the train went really fast.

After a while we arrived at the Lantern Festival, but because we got there before the adults did so we had to wait for 20 minutes. When they finally got here we decided to have a look a around and we saw many of our other relatives.

Then my mum wanted to get some dumplings from a Chinese food stall and wanted to get a Chinese hat so we all got one. They were like bucket hats, and they were straw coloured hats.
As time went past I started to get a little bit bored because  everyone started leaving.
Before long,  we decided to leave because my parents were feeling very tired .

When we finally arrived back home,  we all had a very good night sleep.

My favourite part was when we went on the train because I haven't been on a train in a very long time.  I also liked how we went and brought  a lot of dumplings and bucket hats for our whole family.

Learning Intention : We are learning to follow the structure of writing a recount.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write an introduction, followed by the main events and a conclusion about going to the Lantern Festival.