Personal Narrative: The Ronald Mcdonald House

I went to the Ronald McDonald House for my city as text. Leslie and I went there on Monday night around six o’clock. I drove there so our traveling experience was not as exciting as it might have been if we had braved the bus. Traffic was a little heavier than I usually drive in, but that doesn’t take much for a girl has grown up driving on gravel roads. The directions to the Ronald McDonald house were fairly simple, but the house itself was tucked back a little farther. It wasn’t difficult to find, just it was not immediately apparent which building was the correct one.
Once we found the Ronald McDonald House building, we first approached a side door which was the first door we saw when we approached from the parking lot. Upon closer inspection …show more content…
We were able to see a typical room that a family stayed in, the kitchen, various living areas, laundry facilities and donation storage area. The Ronald McDonald House feels like a real home not like a temporary-stay type of facility like a hotel. It has character and intimate touches like kid’s artwork hung throughout the house. When we were there, the house appeared quite for the most part, only the kitchen was occupied when we when on our tour. But the assistant manager told us that today had already been quite a busy day for her with errands to run, rooms to get ready, calls to make, and another large tour group. How busy she was made me feel like it may have been polite to have called ahead just so they would have been expecting us. The enormous amount of donations and the variety of donations really surprised me. There was a large room in the basement full of material donations, anything from sippy cups to towels were all housed there. We also learned that a different group from the community sponsors/prepares dinner every day of the week which is a huge help for the staff. There is also monetary donations that families can use if they really need things like gas to drive