Story about Tom

One man lived in London. His name was Tom. He was a language teacher. He taught in a school for 20 years. He didn’t have a wife and children. Only his mother liked him. She helped him, cooked for him and gave sometimes money. He was poor and he couldn’t go on holiday. One day he won a lot of money. Tom wanted to go everywhere and bought a ticket on a ship. He was very happy, because so far he was spending his life only in London.
The next day he was on the ship. Every day he sunbathed, danced and met a lot of interesting people. The ship swam very slowly, the weather was beautiful. He didn’t expect accident. After a few hours a storm started and his ship sank. He swam to a desert island. His clothes were wet and worn-out. He was very hungry and didn’t have anything to eat, but he had binoculars. Every day he looked at the sea, but he saw nobody around.
One day he saw a motorboat. A woman water-skiing waved to him. He was very happy, because he thought that she would help him and took him from the island, but she swam away.
Tom was sitting on the island. After a few minutes he looked around, hoping the motorboat would come back. When he was waiting for 3 hours and nobody appeared, he explored the island. He looked at the sea again and saw that somebody was paddling a boat.
It was his mother. She shouted at Tom. She said that he had left his sunglasses at home and she brought them. She was very sad, because she hadn’t got a postcard from him.
He was worried about returning to normal life, but he knew that he must go back to London. Tom with mother paddled to England, but it wasn’t his last travel.

Authors:

Aneta, Kinga, Maciek