A Narrative Essay: My Experience In Cameroon

Using the Writing Process to Write a Narrative Essay Growing up I never thought I would leave my country (Cameroon), not until I was at least a high school graduate to further my education either in the U. S or Canada. Cameroon is located in central Africa and is bothered by countries such as Nigeria and Congo. Cameroon is the place I called home until the age of the age of twelve, which was when I left for the United States. Two weeks prior to our departure, my mother and I went on a trip to the capital city called Yaoundé to renew my passport. Back then I had no Idea that those were one of my last moments in my country. My mother informed me that we would spend the holidays in the U.S, I couldn’t have imagined that she said holiday just to make sure that I boarded the plane when the …show more content…
When I first got here, my first thoughts were to why my parents would do something like this to me. In my case I was going to live with my uncle and his wife. Who are and were great people. But just like any other child I would have wanted to live with my parents. Which unfortunately was not going to happen, because my parents were going live in France. So I was going to have to adapt to not living with them after having them for my whole life. I was imagining the very worst in my mind I used to be angry with my parents when it came to this topic. Angry because I felt as if everything in my life was changing too fast. I went from being a happy girl in Cameroon who had a regular life living with her parents and was surrounded with a familiar environment. To being the girl who had to start over in a whole new different country and more importantly having to introduce myself to an unfamiliar culture. Growing up I always saw people doing this kind of drastic change, but It never occurred to me how hard it