Personal Narrative: How The Romans Built The Colosseum

I still remember when I was seven years old and how my grandpa would come visit my grandma once or twice a week. I would be so happy to see him because he would always call me over and sit me down next to him so that we could watch the history channel together. We would sit there for hours and watch documentaries on everything imaginable. One documentary that I will never forget is one that we watched that was talking about how the Romans built the Colosseum and their aqueducts. That was when I first realized that I liked designing and how I liked seeing how buildings were designed and built. After watching all those documentaries with grandpa something in me clicked and in my mind I thought well if the Romans could build those magnificent building why can I not do it? So, after that thought crossed my mind, I began to say that I wanted to build and design buildings for a job. I did not know that that career was called Architecture until my seventh grade year of middle school. The funny thing is that my middle school was George K. Porter Middle School and their school mascot was a Trojan. One day I was surfing the web then stumbled upon another school that had a Trojan as a mascot. That school was USC. After I discovered this I got curious about what USC had and what they taught there. I discovered that USC had one of the best …show more content…
My all time favorite video game is Sims 3 because at one point in the game, once you earn enough money, you can basically destroy the original house you bought and design a brand new one from scratch. There were more than a few occasions where I would stay up until four in the morning playing Sims 3 just so that I could perfect my houses design. But, you do not work on only the house but also on every aspect of the lot itself. For example, if I wanted a two story home with a nice backyard I could easily create that in the