Charles's Narrative Essay: My Journey

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Charles’s Narrative Essay
A curious young energetic chubby baby, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at Northeast Hospital weighing in nine and a half pounds was born. My hair looked so curly it looked like spaghetti, my eyes shined dark majestic brown and my hair also brightly shined dark brown when I sat out in the sun. As I grew up, I loved to imitate people I saw, therefore as I went to church on Sundays I usually felt bored in the weekdays since church closed then, so every day in family prayer I dressed up in a suit and acted like the pastor and make my parents, grandparent, and sisters sit down and forced them to give their money as offerings and also gave out grape juice and bread like in Holy Communion too. I loved to listen to stories
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The airplane trip consisted with two stops one in New York and the other in Kuwait. We booked the flight in India for two months, and that meant shopping new clothes. I bought shirts, pants, shorts, and a suit. We drove all the way to the airport and dropped off our luggage and boarded the plane to fly to New York. When we arrived in New York at night and I felt so tired so I took a nap at the airport while my parents asked the attendants where to go to board the plane. When I woke up my parents looked really sad because of the frown on their faces, so I asked them “what happened?” They said the flight attendant made them miss their flight because he would not tell us where the location of the gate. My sister said that the guy acted rude and we missed the flight because of him. My family stayed for a day in the airport and needed to find someone to stay with to sleep over since our next flight delayed for a few days. Then, my grandma brought up that she knew someone in New York and remained really good friends with them still, so we stayed at her friend’s house for a week. I enjoyed staying at that house because older girl and I made pasta and we also played Uno. After that week, we went back to the airport and finally boarded the plane to reach Kuwait. The flight took a lot hours just to arrive, fortunately I slept most of the flight. The people in Kuwait

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