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The Best Performance I Have Ever Seen My Trip To Brighton And London, England

3A Sammi Mok Tze Lam 3A Stephanie Chong Hiu Ching

The musical ‘Bluebird of Happiness’ is the best performance I have ever This was my fi rst time travelling to England. It was a study tour for seventeen
seen. It was the fi rst time I had ever seen a show in Hong Kong. The story starts days. It was amazing.
on Christmas Eve and is about a brother and a sister called Mytyl and Tytyl. They When my groupmates and I arrived at London airport, we all felt very tired
are poor and are unhappy with their Christmas presents. In search of a better life, because we had travelled for nearly fourteen hours. We immediately left to go to a
the two children go on a magical journey. private school near Brighton by car. The weather was extremely good and it was
They are searching for the mythical creature very cool, but it was summer.
known as the bluebird of happiness together We met and had a talk with the principal.
with their cat, dog and ‘lights’. Lights is a After that, I went to our homestay with my
candle in human form. The two kids visit roommate, Karen. Our homestay was in Carden
Hill.
various places. A place called ‘The land of
On the following day, we started the
memory’ is where the children meet their lessons. There were some Spanish, French,
long dead grandparents. They also go to Korean and Indian students there. We all
‘The palace of the night’, ‘The forest’, ‘The introduced ourselves and they were all very nice.
land of luxury’, ‘The land of future’ and ‘The After the lesson, we went to the Seven Sisters.
graveyard’. The view was very beautiful and we saw many sheep. They were so cute. We took
This musical is an annual performance by the Hong Kong Academy of a lot of photos of the big grass fi elds and the sea. After sightseeing, we went back
st
Performing Arts. I watched this musical on the 21 December 2014. I went to home by bus. Karen and I then went to the supermarket. The supermarkets in
England are different from Hong Kong. The one we went to was extremely big and
watch this musical because my drama teacher, Ray Kwok and my friend, Doris had 3 fl oors and a lift. We could also buy clothes there.
Yu were performing in the musical. They invited me and gave me two free tickets The next day, we went to visit Brighton Pier
to enjoy the show. So I went to watch it with my mum. As an arts lover, I enjoyed and played on some rides. The rides were exciting The Creative Collection of the Budding Writers
this musical very much and I think it was amazing because of the fantastic stage but so expensive. After about thirty minutes, we
effects and beautiful set designs. Each time a new scene was unveiled, there were changed into our swim suits and played in canoes.
audible wows from the audience. The play had strong characters which were easily We felt very excited and cold. This was my first
understood. There were evil characters like Night and Tylette. They looked scary time on a canoe. I felt really tired because it was
and terrible. I especially liked the performance of Michael Rogers, who played the diffi cult. Fortunately, when we fi nished playing, we
siblings faithful and cute but cowardly dog Tylo. He had animated facial expressions saw a seafood restaurant nearby. There were so
which helped him to create the memorable character. It brought a lot of humor and many different types of seafood, like crabs and
oysters. We ordered seven oysters. They were
warmth to the show.
so fresh, juicy and cheap. We felt very happy and
I could totally imagine that I was then went back home.
travelling together with Mytyl and Tytyl. I also The next day, we went to visit London by train, which took about an hour. We
imagined myself wandering through these fi rst went to see Big Ben and then the London Eye. They were both huge. After that,
Helen Liang Memorial Secondary School (Shatin)
fantasy lands. The music was awesome we went to the London Museum. There were so many cultural things from so many
too. The melodies were very soft but nice. It different countries.
appealed to my heart and my ears. I hope I On the last day, we went to visit Churchill Square
can invite more people to watch this musical and did some shopping. There were a lot of traditional
if it is shown again because it is aw esome. clothes and shoes. We also went to a disco that night
and we all were excited and really enjoyed ourselves.
This trip was the best trip because I met a lot of new
friends and had so much fun. I won’t forget this trip.

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