Dear Kelvin,
We had planned to leave Vietnam, we will take a bus to Rach Gia and leave Vietnam using a boat, and we hope the boat is not taken by the communists. We must make it look like we are not leaving at all, we must leave the lights on and do normal routines, then we can slowly slip away to Rach Gia, two person at a time. We must make ourselves an alibi so that they will believe that we are not escaping Vietnam. My sister keep crying and crying all day long, she was so scared, my dad and mom is calm as normal, and I am also pretty calm, but I am pretty worried if the communists find us there in Rach Gia.
Now all of us have reached Rach Gia safely. We have bad news, my father's father is dead, and the boat is taken by the communists now, the name is not lucky dragon anymore, it is VN 507. My father was very upset and wanted to surrender, I told him to stay positive and just take any opportunity, I suggested to him to take the boat back. My father is very angry when I said that, but then my mother said that the plan was not bad, so my father agreed to take the boat back for us to escape this terrible country.
I and my father sneak onto the jetty in the port, waiting for nightfall. Then came the night, we crept slowly under the jetty like ninjas, invisible. My mother and sister were waiting in the sandbank near the jetty, the plan is to take the boat by the tide, and to go take my family which is in the sandbank. Then we should go deeper to the ocean and start the engine, If we start the engine at the port, the communists will hear us and will shoot us, the plan will fail.
So I sneaked into the boat successfully and cut the rope using a knife my mother gave me. The tide brought us to the sandbank and we successfully take my family in. We have escaped Vietnam. But then there is a person on board too, but luckily he is willing to help us escape Vietnam, so our mission is successful.
your cousin,
James
