Personal Narrative: An Outsider

She is one of the most polite, friendly, and pretty girls in the sorority. She is a static, flat, and a direct character.

Growing up with a father in the military, you move around a lot more than you would like to. I was born just east of St. Louis in a city called Shiloh in Illinois. When I was two years old my dad got the assignment to move to Hawaii. We spent seven great years in Hawaii, we had one of the greatest churches I have ever been to name New Hope. New Hope was a lot like Olivet's atmosphere, the people were always friendly and there always something to keep someone busy. I used to dance at church, I did hip-hop and interpretive dance, but you could never tell that from the way I look now.

Every since I came to this city I have been feeling like a stranger. It is difficult to leave your hometown, what you are used to, and go to some weird city you have never been to before.

Put the gun down! Put the gun down! Pow Pow Pow. The gun shots cracked into the air as loud as thunder. One after another. We live day by day not knowing our end. In the blink of an eye our lives can be changed forever. Its life, yet even in knowing this we never expect tragedy to find us. We never expect it to affect our lives and the people we know and love. I’m going to share with you the day tragedy found my life.

I’ve never been the kid to have a lot of friends, but my all time favorite friend is Shauna Golec. Shauna is my best friend because I can talk to her about anything. Shauna and I have known each other for close to four years now, we weren't best friends until last year. Shauna tries to help me in every way possible, and every problem I have. When I was getting bullied Shauna was the one that helped me and actually the only one that helped me. Shauna’s friendship is important because with out her I don't know what I would do. My mom is always busy and my step parents don't really help me. My dad is the only family member that I can talk to, but I rarely get to see him anymore. So the only person left is Shauna. The qualities that make this friendship

I met my best friend when I moved from the back of the room to the front to escape one of my former friend’s negativity in Mr. Stockwell’s AP Literature and Composition. I always heard rumors about Brooke being a bully or unpleasant, and I believed it at first because she gave me a dirty side-eye the first week I sat next to her. Then when I pulled out my lanyard to put my key back on it, she gasped and started up a conversation on the anime Attack on Titan. We were alike in more ways than one, which was one more than we both previously believed. My upbringing taught me how to judge someone before actually meeting them, and there I was, thinking I had my friendships laid out properly to the point of being set for life. After hanging out with

It was my first time going geese hunting with a shotgun. I was really nervous to going because my uncle and my grandpa are really good at it. They go every weekend and more than half of the time they get their lemont. Also I was very excited to go just growing up going and always watching them going hunting with guns and i always watched. I was getting tired of it. I thought it was time for me to have a gun and on more messing around as much

To begin, I met Oniqa about 5 years ago during my freshman year of high school. It was our first class of Physical Education in the gym playing volleyball. After some instructions from our teacher broke the class up into partners, and surprise my partner was Oniqa. Both of us were extremely shy, quiet, and didn’t talk much during the 45 minutes we spent hitting a ball back and forth. Luckily our friendship didn’t with second period PE. With time we became good friends. In reality, the first day we met wasn’t the start to the typical friendship. Looking back, we were an unlikely pairing that without realizing it had many similarities and experiences. Despite our somewhat awkward first encounter, the following years spent getting to know each other better I learned she was a lot more than a shy girl in my PE class.

"Louis McClymont, the nurse will see you know."As I took the dreaded walk to treatment room B, my fear of needles began to take over, the only time I ever had a jag before was when I was a baby, and that was too long ago to remember. I took a seat on the administering table; the nurse could see my body was shaking with fear. She tried to distract me from the enormous needle that was heading my way. "You're having a jag for yellow fever, where are you going?"

It was the summer of 2014 when I toed the line at my first trail half marathon. I wanted to run this race so that I could try something new, something different from the 5 kilometer race that I ran twice a week during the cross country season. After the season I realized that, although I loved cross country and the team atmosphere, I also loved racing through trails and running longer distances. That’s why every weekend during my training, my dad and I would be outside along the Appalachian Trail.

She's been there for me at times and so have I for her. She's funny, adorable, clumsy, creative and most talented girl I've met well besides Seana and others but we don't talk about the past any

She’s there when I need help with friends, parties , college, BOYS,BOYS, BOYS, and life in general. Somehow she always knows what to say or what to do. As, I said before Gina married Bryan. The second best person ever! It was just like an extension of Gina, but in male form. He was fun, funny, and kind, to everyone he fit in perfectly he was the missing puzzle piece. He welcomed me not only into his family but into his life with open arms, and that feeling warmed my heart like a fire warms your body. He thought of me as his own cousin, his little dwerp he could play with. He always cares about me and makes me feel just like Gina does .Someone they truly care, and look out for. He is my big

Amber is probably the funniest person I have ever met in my life. We can sit and laugh about the dumbest thing for what feels like hours. I don't even notice that there’s a six year age difference between us when I'm with her. If I ever need anything I know I can always count on her to be there for me. She's always the person I go to if I'm craving tacos, snow cones, or any food for that matter. Also, her brookies (brownies and cookies together) are to die for. Amber has become like family to me. She never lets me settle for failure and she's always there to make sure that I’m not just going through the motions. She has such a big heart and I don't know what I’d do without

People enter your life, some are worth keeping, and some are not. Meeting my best friend Leyia that day in the second grade has impacted my life in so many ways. Leyia has taught me how to be more confident in myself, how to resolve my problems, and how to open up and express my feelings to others since I tend to be shy. She knows everything about me and I know everything about her. We are inseparable and it’s always a good time filled with laughs and excitement whenever we link up together. There have been many ups and downs in our friendship but we still managed to become close to each other again like nothing ever happened.

Becca has dark brown, slightly curling hair that has been slowly growing longer since I have met her. She has thick, black glasses that add to her personality. She is about five and a half feet tall and slightly chubby. She has a sense of style that has a pinch of something nerdy about it whether it being one of her purses that she brings with her or it being her whole outfit such as her “Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker” dress that has multiple stained-glass windows from that game. I met Becca when I was in 10th grade when my neighbor was having a small movie watching party. I really didn’t talk to her there but during the following year, when she was in 9th grade, our friendship started to grow. We were both on the musical crew for video and ended up learning a lot about her personality. She is a fun, generous, hardworking, caring person who will put others in front of herself about 95% of the time.