Personal Narrative: Graduation Day

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otifications asking “where he had been?” Some time had passed it was the big day, the one everyone was waiting for, Graduation Day he wondered if his mom would be able to show up, as he was walking down the gym floor he saw his family with his mom waving at him and his mom was in tears, knowing this might be her last graduation for him, she thought about all the things she might miss like his college graduation, marriage, Grandkids. She couldn 't stop crying at all, through the whole thing. When it was at said and done Tim got his handshake and diapomola, and as recognized as the most improved student, from 300 class rank to 9th out of 460 kids. His family was so proud of what he had accomplished, after all, he has gone through the divorce, …show more content…
They knew they have raised a great kid! After graduation, Tim didn 't want any party,

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So now that Tim 's mom gave her final blessing, for him to go this Dream trip he finally gave in. After that, there were so many preparations that needed to be done, like all new clothes; helmet, jacket, pants, gloves, food and the guides, tickets to Canada. As now months go by it 's now December, four months to gather all of those preparations together and thousands upon thousands of dollars to make this happen. And not only those things needed to be done before Tim and his dad finally could leave for the dream trip they had one last thing they needed to do, to visit Tims mom in the hospital. Tim thought it then and only then that this was going to be the last time he’d see his mom due to her illness, that was putting her in the hospital for the four months, sometimes it seemed like she was there more than
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They thought that the problems were behind them now, they got to about half way when they wanted to be Jeff was having a blast. Greg said that the snowmobiles are last seasons and it doesn 't really matter if they break or crash. Just for them to be safe obviously. So that made all the guys go even harder. Jeff looked over his shoulder, and saw his Dad cat walking up the hill with that Jeff had up to out do him and Just flew off of a cliff, and his dad kNew he was too old to be trying any of those crazies tricks. The night began to fall so the squad began to buckle down for the night. But first they begin setting up camp, then they got their food ready for them to eat a big supper. They had made it to the destination where they 'd want to be for the night. They had gone about 75 miles just in one day.as late began to fade the guys began to go to bed in their tents, Jeff said quotation mark holy shit it 's cold outside, they all began to laugh. As the left echo through the mountains began to fade as so did the spirit. Day two,you guys woke up to more snow the guys begin to send off and as they climb up the mountain for a few hours they heard and Echoes noise. It sounds like a freight train he hauling down the mountain. The men began to look at one another and thought to themselves what are we going to do.as all the guys spot down the hill just bases one could possibly do they saw the massive avalanche. This Avalanche was like no other it 's been over a half a mile

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