A special moment with my family

On the 11 of December, 2009,my family and i had gone to China for the holidays. my parents were very stressed at that time, and so was my eldest sister, because she was anxious about her O level results.thus we all decided that a family outing overseas would do us some good, besides,we didn't go overseas as frequently as other people like my friend did. we went during the December holidays because i had never seen snow in my whole existance.well, not real snow anyway. we went to Beijing first and i saw the Great wall of china for the first time

in my life.i was astounded by the sheer colossal size of this ancient

monument. it was so vast that i could actually believe that this ancient architecture could be seen from space. it is impossible to describe how massive this thing was ,i mean,2000 elephants could fit the space that i had walked on, and i probably only walked about one hundredth of it. as i walked, i thought of the many people who had sacrificed themselves for the building of this monument. as to this day i am still amazed that it is able to stay in such a good condition, yes there have been minor renovations on it, but the fact that every aspect of it is able to be seen clearly is the most stupendous thing i can think of. as the sun set over the horizon, we all sat down to reflect upon the true meaning of life.i went skiing for the first time in my life and i was so excited by the thought of it that yo0u would have thought i'd just drank a whole planet of joy.

even though i kept falling down, i finally got the hang of it in the end. soon i was beginning to catch up to my sister in the level of skills and we all agreed that when it was time to go we would have a little race. during the race, we tried the steepest hill so that we would have a little taste at what skiing was like at a very fast speed.the feeling of it is indescribable, it's like you think you're going fast but you can still see every little detail.i remember i almost ran into a squirrel in the snow, luckily it heard me coming and got out of the way in the nick of time. i ended up as second place while my second eldest sister ended up with a face full of snow. when i saw her, i almost died of laughter right there she looked like a snow man coming alive.unfortunately for you, we didn't take any pictures of it or i would have shown it to you.as the day ended,i knew with a small amount of certainty that in that insignificant amount in space and time, my family and i had no doubt in our minds that we all had shared something really special.