Monday, March 5, 2018

A collaborative survival story

The French students have been working on survival stories, such as Aron Ralston's incredible adventure and they wrote the beginning of the following survival story together. But what will happen next to our main character? Will he survive or not? To be continued by the American students...



PART 1: The party


They were celebrating the New Year on  Johnny's boat. Johnny was Mathew's best friend, he was very lucky to have a friend like him. Johnny had a lot of money.
It was 3 pm, the music was loud, everybody was dancing. There was a lot of alcohol and gradually people started doing silly things. Johnny started singing « Allumez le feu » : it was going to start a storm!
Mathew was very happy to be with his friends, they were having a good party. There were lots of girls as well.
- Hey Johnny how are you ?
- I'm fine, look, everybody's having fun ! Have you talked to Jennifer ?
- No, I think she doesn’t like me.
- Are you serious ? Run to speak with her ! She is waiting for you to go speak to her !
- Yes, you’re right, I’ll go talk to her…
And Mathew went to talk to her and invited her to dance. She accepted ! It was the best day of his life !
Later, all his friends were drunk, even the captain was drunk so they started falling asleep.

PART 2: The storm

While everybody was sleeping, at 4am, the sky became greyer and darker and a cold wind arrived: nobody expected a storm. But during the night,  the waves became bigger and bigger. A terrible storm broke out, rain was falling on the boat and the waves became more and more impressive.
The ten friends started to panic and they tried to find solutions to mutually protect each other. Mathew and his friends were terrified ! They tried to call a rescue team but they didn’t have any reception. Mathew decided to take control of the boat in order to divert it from the storm. He took the commands. However their boat did not manage to escape the furious sea. The water began to stir and waves threw themselves over the hull of the boat. When the boat started to tilt on one side, Mathew was horrified. He felt as if he was on the Titanic ! He ran to the life boat, but didn’t have time to launch it… The boat was sinking !

PART 3: Lost at sea

At first , Mathew got his head out of the water. While desperately searching  for his friends, he found a piece of the boat  that was sunk. He was trying to get on it when he hurt his leg and started to bleed, and consequently his blood attracted a starving shark and here started the fight for survival. The shark hurled a first attack which broke the remaining piece of the boat. Thanks to that, the shark gave Mathew a sharpened wooden weapon. Here  Mathew  waited for the right moment to attack. The shark launched another attack. When it opened its mouth he threw the wooden weapon into the shark's mouth and he killed the attacker.
At this moment, he was relieved but this happiness was short lived because the storm was still raging and there were giant waves. In this nightmare, Mathew was trying to find his friends, but it was very difficult because the waves were an obstacle.
They were scattered in the sea and they could’t see each other.  They were all panicked and shouting. They thought they would die. Mathew’s friends were all scared, they were fighting against the waves that did not leave them a moment of rest.
He became depressed when he saw his best friend, Johnny. He was very far away and he looked dead. When he reached Johnny, he saw that he was still breathing ! He could see an island in the distance and decided to swim to the island using a piece of the boat as a life belt. He was determined to save himself and his friend !
However, a wave hit Mathew in the face. When a second wave hit him, he was knocked out and lost consciousness…

PART 4: Stranded on a desert island

After that  horrible storm, Mathew woke up on a beach. He didn't know where he was. Panicked, Mathew stood up, looked around him and realized he was on the island.
He tried to calm down, and to search for survivors. He went around the beach but didn't find anybody. He felt lonely but tried to motivate himself to seek for water, food or materials.
After having run around on the deserted island, he found someone : the girl he was in love with was inanimate on the sand.
- Jenny, wake up ! Wake up !



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