Personal Narrative: The First Day Of Skiing

When I was nine years old my parents finally told me that I could go skiing with them on their annual skiing trip that they do every February. Although they commonly go in February, they decided to also take me and my brother in December and said that we would still go in February. When the day arrived, we loaded our car up and left our house and started to head to Breckenridge, Colorado.
About ten minutes after we left, my mom goes “Oh Crap”. My dad asks what and then she told him that we left her suitcase at the house. We then pulled our car over and sure enough, it wasn’t in the trunk with all of the other luggage. Once we got back to our house, my mom grabbed the suitcase and threw it into the trunk. On the way down it sucked because my …show more content…
After that my dad asked me if I wanted to try the slopes that had moguls on them and I said yeah. When I got off the lift I looked at the slope and realized that it was a black level slope with moguls. All of a sudden I felt a ton of adrenaline rush through my body from my head to my toes and then took off. I started to pick up momentum when all of a sudden a random guy swerved right by me and made me swerve and hit one of the moguls and crashed hard and rolled for what felt like a mile. When I stopped I started to writhe because my head and body hurt so badly. When I got back up my dad was right next to me and asked if I was okay and told him that my head hurt and that my whole body felt ragged. My dad looked at me and said that I looked pallid and that my eyes were dilated and that I most likely had a concussion which made me feel apprehensive. We ended the second day early because of my head. I was reposeful on the way back to my house and hated that I had to endure all of the pain from my crash. When we got home my dad took me to the doctors and sure enough, I had a concussion, my second one. The first time that I went skiing was the best time going because I had lots of fun and because of all the things I learned how to do and all of the great experiences I had in Breckenridge. Now every time that I go skiing, I go on the slope that I got my concussion on and master it every time I go down it and remember what happened the first time that I went