Personal Narrative

The sparks fly in the air, there are marshmallows in your hair, and you’re with your favorite people in the world. This is called the best place on earth, for me at least. I enjoy camping so very much, you meet new people, experience different things, make new memories, and have a blast. You also see new sights, smell some things, and always wake up to the birds singing and not the bustling streets of the city. Camping is my go to activity.

It was my birthday; the sun was scorching hot and there was a cool breeze that kept blowing every few minutes. My friend called me to wish would be the best and told me that we should go fishing and I agreed. Upon our arrival to our usual spot, we notice that there was no one else there, which we liked that. We all spread out and began to cast out. Not long after we had gotten there a man came walking down the hill with a large cooler and a small grill on the cooler, behind him a woman followed and a kid as well. They placed their belonging down and all started to head to the river. After a while, I could tell two shadows walking away from the river. I didn’t turn around as I was focused on what I was doing.

I was bouncing up and down in my car seat my seat belt trying to keep a hold of me. I was so excited to finally get to go to six flags. As we pulled up to get into the parking lot, they wind rushed through my hair, I stuck my head out the window to get a better view of six flags. The rides going back in forth and the people eagerly waiting in line to get in. we pulled up to a parking. The car came to a stopped, everyone jolted forward and then back in their seats. I opened the door stepping out and letting the rest of the people come out. The door slammed behind me and echoed through the parking lot. We made our way getting closer and closer to the amusement park, my older cousins were walking behind me and the young ones who were running across the street playing, my uncle screamed at them to not play in the street.

Once upon a time, 2 summers ago, my brother, Jesus , and I were asking to my Mom and Dad to let us play baseball in the backyard. After 2 days of (not) literal crying, our parents let us play. Many days later Jesus and I thought “ How about we play a Home Run Derby over our garage.” We both agreed to do it. Jesus pitched one, foul ball, he pitches a second one, home run, Jesus pitches one last pitch and, CRASH! I had broke my neighbor’s window. Jesus ran inside. I hid in the garage until my parents asked Jesus where I was. My parents still had not found out about the window, they were looking for me because I had to do chores. I felt so lucky and felt even luckier when my neighbor wasn’t home.

They walked slow as molasses I swear. Lance saw his dad with their dog and we all walked over with him. We all moved to the back of the line and I kept trying to get my bag back from Frank but he still would not give it back. The line started moving up and before we knew it we were up at the front. The guys started ordering their ice cream and kept trying to make me order some but I kept refusing. They still ordered some for me anyways (little butts) and we went to the side to wait for it to come out.

The most important game of the year was coming up and I was ready. Everything was going perfect for me, because I was the starting QB as a freshmen at Englert High School. We were playing Joston High School the number 1 team in the nation since 1960, it was going to be a tough game because they had the number 1 ranked defense, but we had the best offense. The day before the game was just a normal day I went to school and had football practice after school. A couple weeks ago one of the other teams that we had played earlier in the year wanted another game so we decided to play them. They had been the hardest team we had played all year, we had only beat them by a last efforts field goal it hardly went in as it bounced in off the crossbar.

Randy and I got ready to go since it was "Free" and I had forgot to take anything out of the freezer for dinner. As we drove up to the church it was cold and raining with some snow mixed in, we pulled into the parking lot and noticed half the town had decided to eat for free that day.

I was shaking in my seat as we are role into Kearney. I was ready to prance out like a tiger on its prey. When we got out we had to set up our stall. So I slowly walked to the back of the trailer Laging my feet as much as possible so I didn't have to help. So when it was all over setting up my brother said I could go run around maybe find a friend. Few minutes later I get a weird text. It said “Are u in Kearney?” I asked “Who is this?” It was one of my friends named Reed. We were both staring at our screens untill he got there then I went and helped him set up.

It felt like Christmas morning. In June. Ripping open the package, I couldn’t remember ever being more excited. I finally had it. The Apex 37. The newest, nicest, cleanest looking longboard to be released, and I was lucky enough to have it. I tore open that box as fast as I could, ripped the plastic off, and there it was. The most beautiful slab of wood I had ever seen. A clean strip of carbon fibre traced the center length of the board from tail to tail with the detailed “Original” logo placed perfectly in the middle. The crisp metallic trucks glistened on either side, and connected to them, the bright purple wheels, freshly ground for the perfect, buttery finish. My heart filled, and my passion fueled. I will never forget the feeling of standing

The next day consisted of food, arts and crafts, and spiritual meetings. Towards the night, all my friends were acting suspicious and weird. One thing about my church conventions is that the high schoolers always have to initiate the new freshmen. These initiations range from throwing the freshmen in pools with their outing clothes on, duct taping them while trying to chop a chunk of their hair off, and even making them wet their bed by placing their hands in a bowl of water. These are some of the reasons why freshmen never sleep at these conventions. Since I have never been to one of these conventions, I was never officially initiated. I knew about the initiation that was going to take place, but I didn’t know that it was going to happen to

For me, life is like gum. It makes me exhausted and it looses it flavor quickly.

My team was vs the blue team first and I was the last one standing! The Pastor told me to come up so I could throw the ball. My heart was pounding and I felt weird. I threw the ball but someone caught so I got out. But we won two games. My cabin leader took us to a little park they had. And the pastor’s daughter was there her name is Faith. She was 4 years old and my pastor name is Pastor Josiah and his wife Pastor Marie,she is pregnant. She has 2 kids and one on the way It is a girl. My church is called Freedom House. Faith was scared of the red fire ants but she still was on the swing with her older brother. We when back to the cabin and talk and when to dinner. When we were done, we when to the store and bought some

We drove up to the cafeteria in Asbury Woods. I can’t stay still in my seat. I can’t wait to listen to preaching, music, go swimming, and so much more! My mom looks at me and asks, “Are you ready for church camp?”

Honk, honk and we were off to Houston, Texas. The trip was about 5 hours long and I was exhausted when we arrived at the Impact Church of Christ. We were there for a mission trip to put on a vacation bible school for inner city kids that were less fortunate. The first day we arrived at the church we had to set up and meet with the other youth groups. My youth group was set up in the furthest building from the auditorium. We had about an hour before we had to pick up the kids for vacation bible school. Before we picked them up, we assigned people within our own youth group to different task groups. I was one of the oldest kids in the youth group so they put me in the yellow group. Yellow group had the oldest kids which were in 5th grade. There were not a lot of 5th graders so they combined the yellow group with blue group which contained 4th graders. After we assigned groups there was a lot to get done still before they arrived. We had to set up our skit before the kids arrived. Our group skit was about how the devil tempts us to do bad things and how we need to fight that temptation. The skit opens as God is telling Eve not to eat from the tree of life, but the devil would jump in and tell Eve that it would make her powerful. She fell for Satan’s trick and ate from the tree of life and then convinced Adam to eat the fruit too. God then kicked them out of the land and forbid them to ever go there again.

The next day was a hot day it was like burning lava. i went by the river because it was hot of course i put my feet in the water, and splash goes the water. Water was so clear as glass amazing it was so clean. I sat in water for a while until it got cold so i went back to the tent. My family were asleep i was pretty tired to so i went to bed to my aunty took a picture of me i the picture was me buried by one big blanket, i was impressed i didn't suffocate.