Personal Narrative: Family Vacation For The Bailey Family

Family vacations for the Bailey family never go as planned. No matter the time or place, something always bad happens. As a family of seven, going on vacation is not an easy task. In the summer of 2006, my parents decided to take the whole family on vacation to Jamaica. I was thrilled about the fun adventure we were about to go on, but little did I know that this trip would haunt me still to this day of the dumbest things I have ever done.
Something that a lot of people don’t know about me is that I am half Jamaican. My father was born in Jamaica, and we were going to a big family reunion. At that time, I was seven years old and I was very much influenced by my three older siblings. I imitated everything they did, because I truly thought they were cooler and …show more content…
Like always my brothers were acting up and started doing backflips off the diving board. I was so fascinated and determined to do a backflip, so I walked up to the diving board, but my oldest brother pushed me away and told me to do it on the stairs of the pool and so I did just that. As I was standing on the marble steps that led down into the water of the pool, I pushed off as hard as I could and backflipped right into the edge of the stairs and hit my head extremely hard. Immediately I jumped out of the pool and let out a scream that caught the attention of every family member. All at once they rushed over to me in a panic with horrified looks on their faces as they stared at the blood running down my forehead. At that moment, everything became blurry and the next thing I knew I was in a clinic with a whihte towel drenched in blood over my head. I ended up having to get ten stiches, all because I wanted to be just like my older brothers and do a lousy backflip. Because of my head injury, I had to suffer the consequences and stay away from water for the rest of the