We got to pebble Excavation spot safely in the afternoon on the day we set out on the journey. We were conducted round the excavation spot by the teacher who took time to explain the significance and the dates of the various ancient carvings and sculptures to us. We enjoyed every bit of our stay there and many hitherto abstract historical artifacts with small information on them were explained to us.
However, we had some problems on the road when we were coming back. We departed pebble Excavation spot about 6pm that day and we had the intention of getting back to the school by 9pm since the journey would have not taken us more than three hours. After travelling for about thirty kilometres, we had our first problem. Our school bus had a nailed tyre and it took us about thirty minutes to replace it. When we were done replacing the tyre, we continued the journey. The school driver had to increase the speed of the bus so that we could get to school on time as he had promised that we would get home before half past nine at night. Man proposes but God disposes. As ill luck would have it, after covering another twenty kilometres on the isolated, road, we had another disappointment. This time around, it was engine problem. Earlier on, we had been in the high spirits as the school bus was moving forward at high velocity. But suddenly, the bus started jerking and its speed was reducing until it finally jerked to a halt. Mr. Claudius, the school driver got down, opened the engine compartment and adjusted the wire on the battery. After doing this, he jumped into the driver's seat and tried to start the engine but to no avail. He got down again and after checking other parts of the engine to detect the cause of the breakdown, he told us that the bus could not move from that place unless a mechanic worked on the engine.
When we heard this, we became despondent because there was nobody that could help. The students came down from the bus and as it was getting dark, we lost all hope. Suddenly, like a bolt out of the blue we noticed a car corning towards us and our hope rose once again. The car almost passed us before it stopped and reversed to where we were. A man came out of the car and helped us to check the engine. After joining a loose wire under the engine with another, he asked Mr. Claudius to start the engine. Fortunately, the engine roared to life again. We demanded to know the identity of the man and he told us that he is an automobile engineer. He also told us that he is an alumnus of our school and that he felt that he should help us when he saw the name of our school written on the bus. This is how we got over the problems we encountered as we came back from our recent excursion to pebble Excavation spot.
