Personal Narrative: My School Trip To Los Angeles County Fair

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Every year in middle school, my school went to the Los Angeles County Fair in the beginning of September. It was 8th grade year and the last time going to the fair with my school. Before we left, we took attendance, our groups and assignment for the trip. Each group had a chaperone and about 6 students. As normal in middle school, there's drama on who is in someone’s group. No matter how much people tried to change groups, it stayed the same and we weren’t able to change it. By the time, we got called and got on the bus, it was already 9 and were supposed to be there by 10. So we took attendance again on the bus to make sure everyone was there. Since I went to a catholic school, we prayed for a safe journey and then we were on our way. We

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