Personal Narrative: Life After High School

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It happened in May 11, 2012, Sunday, which I thought just a another typical day; I am living in Orange almost a year, and I started to learn about neighbor and everything seemed all fine; I woke up in the morning and looked at the window; the sun is as bright as usual days and the sky is as blue as ocean; I have a basketball game at 9:30 a.m., it is at my high school, but when I looked my clock that I look every morning to check the time, and the clock is telling me that I woke up at 8:30 a.m., since I live close to the school, I do not need to wake up this early—9:00 a.m. is good enough for me— but I did not want to sleep again because once I sleep, I am pretty sure that I am going to sleep for another three hours, furthermore I am not a

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