Narrative Essay On A Cousin's Wedding

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Daily life is full of un-expecting and surprising, things which is happening sometimes might be unforgettable. And one of mine is the day before cousin’s wedding. She is my oldest uncle’s daughter, her name is Janice and she was 24 years old( her husband calls David . We have grown up living together, we are as close as an arm and leg so her wedding is a very special occasion to us. My family is a very big and tradition family which contains five smaller families and our house was built like an apartment. According to our family tradition, the day before the couple’s wedding, the bride must stay in her house with all her relative to wait for the groom and on that day, the groom and his family will come to the bride’s house to pick up his future wife. …show more content…
First challenge was set on the ground floor, we called it ‘warm up exercise’, he would have to do some push up as warming up for others rounds. David and his team must send out two people to do twenty push up but they must also choose a lady from our family to show out strength( he was tricked the second times when we secretly told him that this was the easiest round). Unfortunately, David and one of his cousin named Blake survive through that round.
Then we went up to the second floor, challenges go on, this time the difficulty had turned up a bit, this game we called the blind warrior, someone from the groom companies will come out and blinded, that guy will be given a stick and the mission was to hit all the soft balloon around( the balloon is very easy to explode and there was fifteen of them in total), people surround are able to help them out except David ( I yelled a lot so the next day my throat hurt a lot) and David’s younger sister Amanda was the challenger. Then third round was the easiest one,

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