Personal Narrative On A Trip To America

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Up until now, I have put on effort to polish any discovered skills, and gain experience that will deep my understanding of life. However, there was one incident that I have always been proud of even though it weighs as much as a grain of sand in many other’s eyes through my life so far. This incident occurred when I was about 12 years of age. On my way home from my recent trip to China to visit my mother and her family. I had to wait to be escorted to the entrance to my airplane by an airplane flight attendance by the same flight I’m taking to return back to the United States. The minutes as I tried to go through the series of security check ups that had been performed, I was in an unstable emotional state of being parted from my mother once again. However, my flight attendance took longer than me to get ready to arrive to the airplane. One of the security guard guided me to one of the areas by the security check up lines so that I won’t be missing when the flight attendance has finished all her documents. …show more content…
Then, I noticed two young men were struggling with an elderly lady in the wheelchair. I inched nearby little by little and caught on their conversation. The two young men were two of the many security guards, and they found some bag-like texture when lightly searching the elder’s body. They were having a difficulty in speaking English as they were conversing to each other on how to ask the elder what does she possess. I hesitated to help at first as I was still not confident in my own English skills, but that thought was quickly erased when I realized that they have an obstacle that they need to get rid of soon since there was a long

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