Personal Narrative: Lauren Elizabeth Goll

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Who am I? Well of course I am Lauren Elizabeth Goll, but you can just call me Lauren. I am 14 years old and I was born on November 25 of the year 2002. My mom told her family that she was pregnant with me on April fools day so her family thought she was joking which now that I look back on it, it may seem pretty depressing but I swear once I first heard about this I was laughing so much. I have two siblings, Morgan and Tj. My dad is in the Military, much like many other students in this school, which means we have traveled to multiple places such as Kansas, Japan, Georgia, and now England.

I have lived in Georgia for eight years and I have to say that is almost my favorite place we were stationed at. I had a great time in Georgia, I was always tan but now I look like Casper the ghost. In Georgia, I was a fat child, so I never really had too, many
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When we lived in japan my hair would grow so slow because my hair was so fine that I looked like a boy most of my life. Living with blonde hair as a white child in Japan was unusual for the Japanese culture meaning that the japanese citizens would like to come up to me and touch my hair and I would always cry because it was one after another stranger touching my hair. When my sister and I were growing up, and we had just bought school supplies, we would play scan and I would always be the scanner but sometimes we would switch out and I would and the bagger. When I was younger my family visited seattle, so one day I went swimming with my sister and dad, and mind you we were like ages 4&6, and my sister and I were running around the indoor pool when all of a sudden she fell in. My dad jumped in after my sister and saved her, but I had to go sit in the hot tub because my dad wanted to teach my sister how to swim and he couldn't do that if he had to look after me at the same

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