Friends are the people who you spend most of your time to hang with. Friendship is the relationship between you and your friends. During a trip to a country park, I experienced how to trust friends. Seven years ago, I was living in Hong Kong, and it was a cloudy Summer Saturday morning. My sister and I joined our friends from our church's youth fellowship to make a retreat to Shing Mun Country Park.
             When we arrived, we could see that the park is full of trees and flowers. Although that was a cloudy day, the view was also great. Comparing with the atmosphere of the polluted cities, the park could be said as like a heaven.
             After lunch there, our fellowship leader, Edmund, told us that the country park was surrounding a hill. There was a former mine at the peak. The mine had not been used since World War II. It was quite interesting to us. Therefore, we decided to take a look there.
             We walked along the zigzag path toward the mine for few minutes and reached the entrance. The small entrance just fit one person only, and it was really dark inside. At the moment, there was a sprinkle, so we got into the mine one by one as quick as we could. I was the last one to get into the mine.
             It was a very dark mine, and we could see nothing there, no people, no hands, and no fingers. Because of the darkness, we walked hand in hand. We walked along the corridor in the mine and turned into a dark room. We still couldn't see anything there. We just trusted the one whom we were following. There were many, many cross ways in the mine. The floor was wet and covered with sand and rocks. It was difficult to step forward. What a terrible place; I didn't want to stay anymore.
             We walked and walked and walked. Nothing could be seen. We trusted the leader, trusted our neighbors. The time was passing and we held our hands tighter and tighter. At the moment, Edmund realized that we got lost. But he didn't tell any of us. He just kept try...