Yvette Juarez Ms. Lehmann 1-1A English 12 March 2019 My First Road Trip Experience Picture this: six people in a car for three days with nothing to do but live with each other. Could you do it? Let me tell you on how I survived and how I surprisingly ended up enjoying it. In our bright red Buick were me, my grandpa, grandma, uncle, aunt, and little brother.My little brother drives me nuts, by the way, so you could just imagine the arguments we had. As soon as we left our house, I had my earbuds in, and I was ready to sleep the entire three days to avoid getting car sick like I normally do. That’s when my phonedecided to die on me, so there was nothing for me to do but communicate with my family, I guess. My little brother and I were playing UNO, and he kept looking over at my cards. I was aware that this was a silly thing to argue about, but loser had to sit in the backseat, and I was not about to lose. The backseat was cramped and way too uncomfortable. I was trying to stay as comfortable as possible until we got to Mexico. That’s when we started arguing with each other! “Adrian! Stop looking at my card; that’s cheating.” “I’m not looking at your cards. I was looking at the deck,” he said back to me. “I seriously just caught you staring at my cards. I’m not going to play with you anymore; I don’t play with cheaters,” I said. That’s when he started crying, and everyone in the car was upset with me because if you know Adrian, you know he has the most annoying cry ever. “Wait to go, Yvette,” my aunt Norma said. “I didn’t even do anything to him; it’s not my fault he’s so sentimental,” I said back. “Apologize to him,” Norma said back to me. I looked over and rolled my eyes at him. “I’m sorry Adrian,you’re not a cheater,” I said. He looked over at me and stuck his tongue out. “Brat,” I whispered under my breath. I ended up falling asleep because of how bored I was in the car. It was almost four in the morning when I woke up because I felt our car stop moving. “Uhm, where are we?” I asked. “We’re in Utah,” my aunt said back. “Why’d we stop?” I asked. “Your uncle’s truck got a flat tire, and I'm not sure how we’re going to fix that,” she said. If you knew my grandpa, you would know he is always prepared for anything that could happen. Luckily, my grandpa had something with him to help change a tire. I don’t know much about cars, so I have no idea what it’s called, but it helped and we were back on the road on our way to Mexico. After the tire was fixed, we stopped at McDonalds to get some breakfast. (I normally don’t eat fast food.) All I had was orange juice. We were living off of junk food for three days.Normally I wouldn’t mind, but I missed my grandma’s homemade food. I was so happy when we finally reached the border. I thought we were finally going to see my mom and great grandma, but no. I had another sixteen hours in the car until I was in Tunguitiro,Michoacan (that’s where my family is from). What I learned was that spending time with my family is a good thing, and I should never take them for granted. I learned that my little brother isn’t so annoying and is funny. I also learned that my grandma can talk for hours. My grandpa has some pretty good stories about his childhood and loved exploring. Narrative Reflection 1. List one thing you’ve learned from writing this paper that can apply other writing assignments. What will that look like? A: Adding dialogue, applying it to other assignments will help bring my story to life. 2. Identify a specific revision you were asked to make and explain why (this can be at any stage of the writing process). How did you revise? How did you learn? A: Adding semicolons where they needed to be, it helps break a sentence and show that you paused during that time. I placed them where they needed to be. I learned when and where to add them. 3. What are the conventions of a narrative and how did you meet those in this assignment? A: adding punctuations where they belong; and adding in quotations to help make the story more understandable to the reader. 4. Given more time to work on this assignment, how would you improve? A: Mostly just work on adding more details because other than that I was proud of my narrative. 5. What is one thing your proud of in this paper? A: That I was able to show the reader the emotions through my story and how quickly I was able to piece it together