Personal Narrative: Improving My Survival

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It’s been a week since me Mike Duthem has survived that plane crash in the ocean and I have learned more about better ways to improve my survival. A day or two ago I was walking on the beach of this Island with clear ocean tropical water on my right and an endless amount of palm trees to my left. On this walk I noticed another abandoned half sunken ship on the shore and I swam in the water to explore it. In my discoveries I found a dry and barley damaged survival guide. My goals were to improve my living conditions on this Island like water, food, and shelter. I have learned how to make an axe and hammer with materials on this Island and this would help me if the axe or hammer breaks. Also the survival guide taught me how to make my fire

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