Personal Narrative Essay

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“When someone touches my phone, I automatically turn into a ninja.” While in math class, I learned never to leave my phone sitting on the edge of the desk or it might get knocked off. One day while in math class I had my phone sitting out on my desk doing homework. I was working on an equation when someone put a box on my desk and knocked my phone off. I watched as it fell onto the ground. My phone landed on the leg of the chair face down. Cautiously, I bent over to pick it up. As a result of the fall, nothing seemed to be wrong with the phone. But as soon as I turned it on, I knew something was wrong. The only thing that appeared was a blue screen. I felt very worried about what had happened to my phone. When I arrive home, I reluctantly told my parents what had happened with my phone. Later …show more content…
I heard my phone hit the hard ground. Immediately I picked it up, the front screen wasn’t broken. But when I turned it around, I could see that the back camera had a crack in the lense. A few days later we went to Colorado to go skiing. I could smell the aspen trees all around me. While we were at the ski resort my phone fell out of my pocket and landed in the toilet. The phone was ruined. We stopped at a phone store on the way home. While dad was in the store I could taste the anticipation of what he might bring out. He was in the store for awhile. A few minutes later he appeared with a new phone. It was an iPhone 6. On the way home, I played on my phone. I was very happy that I had gotten a new phone. In this I learned that I need to be more careful with my phone. In the future, I will be careful where I set my phone on the table and what is around that might knock it off. When walking down the hall I need to make sure that I have a good grip on my phone. Then also, when I’m around water I need to make sure my phone is in a safe place where it won’t fall out of my pocket and into the

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