Personal Narrative Research Paper

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I worked hard to where I got myself today, so don’t called me spoiled.My parents had four kids including myself, I lived in Palm springs my whole life,thinking I had the perfect life with my family memebers coming over all the time and having parties or just watching a soccer game on the t.v. but when 8th grade came that’s when the divorce happen between my parents and everything went all downhill from there.Then a family tragedy happened and nothing was the same ever again. My mom side of the family now hates my dad side of the family.My aunts and uncles from my dad side don’t even talk to us anymore or ivite us to anything and everything is just an ackward sitution between my family now. I live in Desert Hot Springs now with my mom and little …show more content…
I was starting my first year of highschool, I was still pretty sad but I got through it. I was slowly forgetting the pain of my family and started focusing on grades and extracurricular activities. I guess, I can say I was finding myself freshman year and know who I am and what I really like. Now let’s just skip forward through my life, I am a senior now at Palm Springs High School, I used to be really shy and talk to no one but now I’m friendly as can be and very talkative. My whole high school life, I played soccer, joined our concert choir, joined Spanish Club, and a hispanic dance called Ballet Folklorico. As you can see I was a very occupied person in high school,I just loved keeping myself busy. At the same time, I was an average student too, who got good grades. My mom kind of didn’t like fact I did extracurricular activities because nothing is free in life and whenever there was an event she couldn’t take me but that didn’t stop me, if I needed money for my activities, we would have fundraisers for it and if i needed a ride, I take the bus all the time because I was dedicated to those things and loved them and they made me happy. Don’t worry, I had a social life also and and knew how to have fun with life with my friends and

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