Read paragraph 2 again. The author vividly describes the strategies he adopts to avoid a wasp bite. Write a letter to your friend about how you cleverly escaped from being attacked / bitten by an animal / insect. Describe an imaginary incident in about 150-200 words.

645, Diamond Harbour Road

Kolkata

700034

Date: 2^nd March, 2019

Dear Sourav,

How have you been? It’s been a long time since we wrote to each other. Your last letter really delighted me a lot, especially your account of your trek with classmates. I am writing to you describing something that is not at all delightful, but indeed very scary for me, and I want to share it with you, in case you ever need to do the same.

Just yesterday afternoon, as I was sound asleep in my bed, I was woken up by some tickling on my feet. It is obvious to think it is a mosquito or a bee, but you would be certainly in for a bitter surprise if you notice it is a wasp! Believe me when I say, my instant urge was to scream and shake it off my feet, obviously to be stung by it later!

But what I chose to do instead was to be as still as possible. I sat straight up as slowly as possible, trying not to move my feet at all. For a moment it seemed me and the fly were looking into each other’s eyes. I did not want to anger it, but I didn’t want to be spending my afternoon with it either.

I reached my hand out to the table to grasp a card that I had been making for my project, and gently waved the air around the wasp, waiting patiently for it to fly away. Instead it hovered around for a few second before landing on my feet again. I gave it a second chance, and waved stronger, and as the wasp lingered in the air a little longer, I ran for my life and out the door! It took my father to confirm twenty times that the wasp was nowhere in the room anymore for me to enter it at night.

Keep my tip handy, friend: always keep your windows closed.

Yours lovingly,

Sakshi