Personal Narrative: Kadena Elementary School

Around first grade, Ramaz Lower School took a trip to a Mets game. The roar of the crowd nearly deafened me, but I’d never felt more alive. The crack of the bat was addictive and the general camaraderie in Shea Stadium was intoxicating. Within the first three innings, I knew I’d found something special. After the game, my classmate, Jack, came up to me with claims the Mets were the best team ever and the Yankees “sucked.” Naturally, I became a die-hard Yankees fan.

On January 13, 2016, I met with Mahmuda Nilu Alam at my elementary school, Pacoima Charter Elementary. I met her through former teachers I had who presented me to Mrs. Alam, and advised me to volunteer in her second grade classroom in order to get to become more acquainted and familiarized with her. So, I decided to do just that and volunteered as a teacher’s assistant after ESY, and made my way over to the elementary. After properly greeting her and introducing myself to her class, I assisted her with her lessons, ran errands, and helped some of the students struggling to comprehend their writing prompt. We were able to exchange a few words scattered throughout the day during class session, but were not able to go into depth of our conversation until lunch, which is where I had a complete new perspective of viewing the American lifestyle.

So, it was just a normal day at school and I would have never expected what happened to happen. At that point in the school year I had been programing a Sphero for about 2-3 weeks and my teacher asked me if that weekend I would present the Sphero to other teachers. She wanted me to help her show the other teachers how the Sphero could be used for education. I accepted and the instant I arrived home told my mom. She told me I could go then the next day I excitedly told my teacher I could go.

In all the black clothes I was in all day that day I was really excited to put cuter clothes on. In the car I told my mom that we needed to get rid of all my clothes that were the old me. When we got home we went up to my room. My mom gave me the honors to put the first piece of clothes in the garbage bag to go to donation. As I looked through bag I found my first piece of clothes I wanted to get rid of and it was jeggings that had skulls all over. I kinda didn't wanna get rid of it but as I dropped it in the bag it felt like relief of my pain and fear of going to school. It took us awhile to get rid of everything but then when we finally did I was excited to go to school the next day. When I went to school the next morning I wore my bright pink shirt everyone was confused who I was. Some people recognized me because of my boy hair cut still but I got so many compliments on my outfit and everyone liked my change and well I guess i did too.

On one fateful day, I got ready like I did every morning. As I was about to go to the bus stop I went to my moms room to awake her. I started heading out when I heard her call out “It is chilly out today so bundle up before you go, ok.” hearing this I raced back to my room and out the door as fast as I could. As I in my panic of missing the bus I yelled “bye love you!” as I shut the door barley making the bus getting there right as the bus tires screeched to a holt.

I started Kindergarten at Roosevelt Elementary. There was a annoying, chunky kid, who cried every single time he got to the classroom. As soon as he entered the room, he would start screaming, so his mom would take him home. I’m not sure whatever happened to him. After kindergarten year, I started going to Hoover. I went there from first grade until halfway through third grade. One of my favorite memories was in January of 2010. It was when I got my first dog. She was a blue nosed Pit Bull named Pebbles. My parents never told me they were getting a dog, so I was surprised to be woken up at five in the morning to a fat, two-month-old puppy licking my face. Still half asleep, I asked my mom whose dog it was, and when she said it was ours, I became

Well my day started out great Hailey told the whole school that I was coming so I met a ton of people.The day went by fast it was about lunch time and I sat with Hailey at her table.While I was at her table a girl also named Hailey ask me to sit with her group and so the new life has started.

It wasn’t long until summer, this being my last few days at this school. I really liked this school but mama said “Oh, you poor child we must go your father has just got promoted again.” I knew that was the end of that. Mama doesn’t like when I argue so I don’t. As my papa got home I said, “How was work.” He did not respond to that though so I took it like he did not have a good day. I thought to myself I wonder did he have a good day mama said he got promoted. As I walked into my room to change into my play clothes I

It was a warm September day, when I just had jumped off the bus outside of McDole Elementary. All the little kids got off the bus first so the older kids didn't trample us. Everyone on the bus was excited for school. All the teachers were outside the school holding up signs by the doors waiting for their class. I was trying to find the blue sign because that was the color of my bus-tag. When I finally found my teacher she took us inside to class.

There was about 20 minutes until the school bus usually picked me up, so I ran downstairs to show my dad how I looked. He said I looked like a beautiful young woman. I then jumped into his arms and he gave me a huge bear huge. I was ready for school. I sat down on my couch and waited for the bus to come.

I arrived at school 10 minutes late because I got lost and forgot my phone at home. It was alright because the teacher, Mrs. Harrison, was nice. That day turned out to be the best day of my life because all the people there was nice and grateful. It was just perfect. Everyone said they loved me and that they wanted to be my friend.

The shrill bell rings throughout Cambridge-Isanti High School at 2:50 p.m. signaling the end of a school day. Among the crowded halls full of students trying to leave as quickly as possible, Rachel leisurely heads to where she plans on meeting her friends: Sadie, Molly, and Payton. With the background noise of lockers opening and closing as well as the people chatting around her, Rachel says goodbye to her classmates and grabs her black and white Under Armour backpack from Mrs.Hennen's prep room as she greets her friends, so they all can go to swimming practice together. “We always have met up there,” Rachel says, “it's a tradition.”

I got to school. My friends and I played jokes on each other and some games as usual. We used to have eight studying periods each day. After the third period, we had Chemistry and one of our classmates said that we wouldn’t be studying Chemistry today, because the teacher is not here. Everyone cheered and got so happy,

Once the nurse saw me, she called my grandfather up and said, “Your grandson is having an asthma attack and he does not have an emergency inhaler at the school. He seems in distress and needs his inhaler right away. Will you please bring an inhaler to the school?” I laid down on the nurse’s examination table. Once my grandfather arrived, he handed me my inhaler to use. My grandfather saw how much in distress I was in and told the nurse that he was going to take me to my doctor. My grandfather picked me up and carried me to the car. He then rushed me to my doctor’s office.

Lunch time came around, I stood in the lunch line and then picked a table. I remember I sat there and ate, then after lunch we went back to the classroom in our lines. I was quite for the rest of the day. We packed our bags and I saw other kids just packing their homework but I packed everything as if I was starting the day all over again. After I packed my bag. The bell rang and the teacher walked us down the hallway. We got to the doors and I tried to look for my bus number, I couldn't find my bus. After a little bit of walking I found bus number “16.” I walked on and sat in the closest seat possible but then the bus driver looks up and says “Can you move one seat back” so I did. Then that the girl that sat behind that morning sat next to me and said “Hi I'm Cydnee, what's your name” I was shocked she started to talk to me right away I said “Hi my name is Hannah.” We became best friends after that. The whole bus ride home we laughed about how our laughs sounded different and then before we knew it, it was her turn to get off. Before she got off she turned and looked and said “You snort sometimes” and I started to laugh as she walked off.