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Excursions are part of education. One day we had a (24) ________ surprise when our teacher told us that we were going on an excursion to the islands around Singapore. The coming Sunday (25) ________ and we were asked to be at school around 6.30 a.m. We were very happy and waited (26) _________ for the day. In the meantime, we planned the program for the trip.
On that day, everyone was present at as early as 6 o’clock. A bus had been arranged to take us to the World Trade Centre pier to take the launch for the islands. There was a big crowd of holiday makers buying tickets. (27)__________ our tickets had been arranged and one launch had already been reserved for us. We all rushed in. My friends and I took seats so that we can have a better view and we (28) ________ a lot of photos.

We had our breakfast and lunch on boat and we wasted no time exploring the caves and the islands there. At 5p.m, we returned home. We really had a good time.