This summer seemed to me to turn out to be the greatest waste of time in my entire life. There was one explicit reason for this: I thought that my number one priority for the summer was to go to the seaside. And I was not going to go there. There were numerous reasons for my failure to plan everything properly. My friends are all students at different schools or universities and had different plans for the summer. There wasn’t a single week during which all of us were free to go to the seaside together. In the end we were forced to choose a date that would suit most, if not all people. That person who was busy between the 18th and 28th of August was me. I couldn’t go. And just when I had made peace with the fact, that this year I wouldn’t see the sea, I understood that there was a slim hope: I could go with my parents.
We went to Greece, since it wasn’t far and I had to be back coon in order to study for my exams. We were in a village near the city of Kavala, which is situated between a hill and a bay. This position is what made the city so beautiful. At first I was confused – why are all the cars in the city so small? Half of them were SMARTs. I had been to the city before, but I had been so young that I remembered nothing. Had I remembered what part of the city we had visited, the issue with the cars would have been quickly resolved. Nevertheless I found out soon.
The hill on which the city had been built was surrounded by a fortress. I had failed to notice that when I first arrived, probably because the city had become so big that it had expanded away from the hill. As I climbed the narrow streets within the ancient fortress I had the feeling that I am walking within an artifact, a historical castle that is now used as a museum. When I reached the top and looked down at the sea I was amazed by the beauty of the rocks that ended deep inside the sea. But what amazed me the most was what I encountered on my way back down.
As I was walking cheerfully down another narrow path, no more that 2 meters wide and very steep, I saw two women standing in the stairway of one of the houses inside the fortress. The women were dressed too casually to have been out for a walk. In fact one of them was in her pajamas! That was when I started noticing that along those narrow streets, the houses, as old as they looked at first sight, were actually new and recently reconstructed. Ordinary people still lived within the ancient fortress. Along the streets, once made narrow enough to protect the city from invasions, cars were passing (with great difficulty, of course). People moved from the fortress to the rest of the city in motorbikes, which they parked under their balconies. I was fascinated by the fact that such an old structure was still populated with modern fully-functional houses. This sight was what made this city special for me.
Your Kavala story is most fascinating. In the beginning of the story I actually felt sad because it seemed that you really wanted to go to the seaside, but you didn’t have the chance, but later after reading the whole story I felt no pity. Not many people have seen the things you have seen this summer, so that is something special for you. I liked how you described the town saying that it is a fortress. I don’t think you should feel sad that you went to Kavala instead of to the seaside with your friends because seeing something different is always helpful to make your vision of life larger. The more things you see the more things you will know. This peace of writing is interesting because with simple words you are able to describe the whole atmosphere of the town and its people. The fact you have shared such as that people drive motorbikes and smart mobiles to get from one place to the other is interesting for the reader. The most important fact from this paper is that you are able to make someone who hasn’t been there, feel in such a way that he thinks he has. I really liked the simple style of writing you have used because it is easier to understand and helpful. Spacing the different paragraphs makes it more eye appealing and separates the different thoughts. I like the end because it contrasts with the beginning. A good impression by authors is made by the end and you have done that.
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