Personal Narrative: Deeper Into My Life

“Deeper Into my Life” Individuals are unique in their own ways and one of mine happens to be my name, Darrnyejah Bolds. Everywhere I go people have a hard time pronouncing it. Many people have given up and just refer to me as “Ms. Bolds,” but also I have two nicknames “Nye”, and “Nyejah,” which is mostly used by family and friends. Over the years, I have adjusted to my nicknames and became very comfortable with them. I entered this world on February 27, 1997 with the zodiac sign of Pisces. I was born at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. I am now an eighteen year old college sophomore pursuing a bachelor’s degree in social work. New Orleans, Louisiana, my hometown, has allowed me to develop a forward thinking mindset as well as a calm collectedness like the Jazz music my city is known for. Up until about eight years of age I lived in New Orleans, until my family and I evacuated to Houston, Texas to escape the category five Hurricane Katrina. Because of the destruction the storm unleashed on my hometown we ended up living in Texas for three years. Although it was not home, those three years were some of the best times of my life. While living in Texas I really enjoyed going to a school that didn’t require uniform like they would in Louisiana. Eventually we returned home, and because I did not find life in Louisiana as interesting as Texas I cried for about four months. To make matters worse, I was out of school for 3 months before finally getting enrolled in a school that I didn’t know existed. I wasn’t able to go to school because I lived with my grandmother whom did not have legal guardianship of me. The fact that my mom is incarcerated and refused to sign over guardianship to anyone caused a major dilemma in life, not just school. Not having an active father in my life made the process much more difficult for me. If I had at least one of my parents available I would have been in school. After all of that madness I ended up starting school in the spring time. Not long after being in school I realized that even though I was out of school for a while I was still ahead of all the students. One pro to living in Texas is the school system was much more advanced than what we had in Louisiana. I was in 6th grade learning things that were taught in 5th grade in Texas. I guess everything happens for a reason. As I got older I eventually readjusted to life in New Orleans again. Breezing through middle school, and graduating in 2011, I decided to challenge myself and joined the …show more content…
I decided to live on campus for the entire year, and got some pretty useful experiences. It was my first time being on my own and I learned that by living on campus I was able to get better grades. I had a successful year, and finished with a 3.8 GPA. I ended up sitting out the next year so that I could rethink my major and focus on my personal life. During my break from college I decided to move to Houston with my fiancé. We decided that Houston is a better place for opportunity with jobs and starting a family. I am now enrolled at Houston Community College taking prerequisites towards my degree in Social Work. The story of my life is still being written and I am thankful for every