The Deep Blue Sea

Out in the deep blue sea I go! I've been waiting for this day for so long. 

I feel as excited as a child in an ice cream store. "Tuuuu! Tuuuu!" The ship horn sounds.

"Oh my! The ship is about to sail away!" I run, finally with my last breath, I give in my

ticket and enter the boat.

I run with excitement to the top level of the boat. "I should get a better view from here!" I say.

I find a spot to stand and admire the view of the ocean's horizon. "It's so beautiful from here. 

The blueness of the sky reflects the bright sunlight into the sea." I close my eyes. As the boat 

pulls away from the pier, I feel the wind surrounding me, "Swish Swish." I open my arms wide,

as if I were a bird getting ready to fly away, letting the strong, ocean wind pass through my wings.

 I open my eyes to see the bright sun. The sky is as clear as a glass jar. From afar, I see mist,

 I point and think, "What is this?" I hear a loud "Splash! Splash!" and see something big and black. 

"What could it be? Could it really be what I've been longing to see?" With my eyes wide open,

 I wait impatiently, as the boat gets closer and closer. I look at the big blue sky, I close my eyes

 to hear my heart beat with excitement, "bum, bum, bum, bum!" My eyes open, everyone on the

 ship is shouting excitedly, "Look! Look!" My wait is over the whale I have been waiting to see is

 so close, I feel like I could touch her. "Phew, Phew," the whale says Hello. Shortly with his spray

 of water blowing out of his blow hole, he swims away and slowly fades away out into the deep

 blue sea, leaving a smile on my heart to last for eternity. 

By: Marleny Abreu 

   

Vocabulary 

1. Deep- Very far from the surface or top. 

2. Excitement- A feeling of so much happiness that you can't wait.

3. Horizon- The sky and the ocean. 

4. Mist- A cloud of tiny water near the earth's surface.

5. Fades- Slowly leaves or disappears.

6. Eternity- Forever. 

Cloze Exercise: Fill in the blanks with the correct word from the list above.

1.  I glanced through the thick _____________, trying to see. 

2.  She talked about the                        of her new life.

3. The sun rose slowly over the eastern                                               .

4.  We walked in the                           snow.

5.  We suffered through an                                         of delays during the lawsuit.

6.  The                                      light of late afternoon.

Grammar:

Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence.

Example: the tall professor

Look over the story and write down at least 3 adjectives you find in the reading. Write a sentence for each adjective.