Personal Narrative: My First School Year

It was towards the end of summer, all of the stores began to fill with school supplies and the aroma of brand new pencils and crayons filled your nose as you walked In. The end of summer gives me mixed emotions, I'm excited to begin school shopping but I'm also sad to start the school year. Kids my age always get the same questions this time of year, “are you ready to start the school year” or “have you began to think about what college you'd like to go to”. But this year when these questions began to flutter in I wasn't even close to the point of thinking about school and grades, I was ready to go on vacation. My mom announced to my sister Haley and I at the end of last school year that my grandma and grandpa have rented out a house In Fair Haven, we have a very large family. My grandma has six kids. I have two uncles, three aunts then there's my mom. So as you can Imagine the house would have to be pretty big, one of my aunts has three little girls and then there's me and haley. I can remember the excitement when I heard the news. I didn't do much this summer other than play softball. The days leading up to the trip had me tossing and turning when it came time for bed and having me feel as …show more content…
I put my hand on the clutch and all I can remember is hearing my grandpa saying “Janelle don't touch that” (of course I did anyway) then all you hear is “VROOOOM” it was as if the boat was purring happy sounds. My grandpa got out of his seat trying to reach the end of the boat where I was and he told me to stop so I did. The boat came to a complete stop and he went flying over board, this was probably the funniest and scariest moment that I have ever experienced. He was perfectly fine in fact he thought it was pretty funny too so I didn't feel so bad, i wasnt aloud to drive the boat after that