Personal Narrative: My Trip To California

In the summer of my junior year in high school I was able to visit my aunt in California. I was very excited to go since I born there and this would be the first time I came back. When I got on the plane I was so full of energy I didn’t sleep for the entire 12 hour plane ride. When the plane landed, it was at around the crack of dawn. When I was waiting for the bus to take me to the nearest Greyhound station, I marveled at the sky. The clouds were a wispy grey with the sky being a multitude of colors ranging from purple, pink and orange. As I was riding on the bus the first thing I thought of when I saw the highway was that the colors were dull. The sky, the roads, the buildings, the people, it all lacked color. It was like a saw a painting that only had the …show more content…
I soon discovered that California is indeed a colorful place the further you go from the cities. In general though the world is a colorful place. Mother Nature has left her many different creations to grow and thrive on earth. These creations are both a sight to see and important in the survival of all living things. From the smallest budding flower peeking out of the half frozen dirt to the tallest trees with bark bearing all the marks left by time, all these things play an important role. Most important of all though are the bees because they are one of the most commonly known creatures that pollinate plants. What they do is important because when they go from plant to plant they are picking up the pollen that plant produces and transferring some of that pollen to a different plant. This is one of the ways plants reproduce and in turn their reproduction is what keeps humans and animals alive. Some might argue that the ongoing decline of bees is a natural phenomenon and is no cause for worry, but the decline in bees have been a recurring event throughout the past up until this point in