Personal Narrative
Jonathan Lathi
Shannon Murray
English 1301
April 8, 2013
Bump in the Night Lying in bed, I was sleeping soundly unaware that my life was going to be changed forever. It was 5 am on a Thursday; everything was turning out to be just another day at the beginning of the summer. All of a sudden I was shaken awake. I was slow to open my eyes so I was not aware of what was happening yet. I was unaware that my life was about to change forever. I finally opened my eyes and was very startled to see the face of a man that I had never seen before me talking to me and directing me to get out of bed. I did what I was told and noticed that there was another large man standing outside my door. Many things were racing through my head at that point, such as who are these guys, how did they get in my house, what do they want with me, am I being kidnapped, what’s going to happen to me, where is my mom, where is my sister, are they alright. My fears and my questions were shortly answered. He told me in a stern deep but non-threatening way “we have been hired by your parents to escort you to a wilderness program where you will stay until you are placed into a new school.” This all seemed very disconcerting to me and I was not sure if what they were saying was true, but I continued to follow their orders. I got dressed got in a car with them and was off to upstate New York for the next 62 days. This was day when I look back upon it changed my life forever. I was not the most well behaved kid and I had gone through a rough patch over the last two years which lead to me getting sent away to wilderness and then later boarding school for the next 26 straight months. I had gotten kicked out of my two previous high schools and had fallen into the wrong crowd and had started using, stealing, vandalizing, and skipping school often. This move to a therapeutic boarding school could have been the difference for me and might have been the only reason why I was able to graduate with a 4.0 gpa and
Shannon Murray
English 1301
April 8, 2013
Bump in the Night Lying in bed, I was sleeping soundly unaware that my life was going to be changed forever. It was 5 am on a Thursday; everything was turning out to be just another day at the beginning of the summer. All of a sudden I was shaken awake. I was slow to open my eyes so I was not aware of what was happening yet. I was unaware that my life was about to change forever. I finally opened my eyes and was very startled to see the face of a man that I had never seen before me talking to me and directing me to get out of bed. I did what I was told and noticed that there was another large man standing outside my door. Many things were racing through my head at that point, such as who are these guys, how did they get in my house, what do they want with me, am I being kidnapped, what’s going to happen to me, where is my mom, where is my sister, are they alright. My fears and my questions were shortly answered. He told me in a stern deep but non-threatening way “we have been hired by your parents to escort you to a wilderness program where you will stay until you are placed into a new school.” This all seemed very disconcerting to me and I was not sure if what they were saying was true, but I continued to follow their orders. I got dressed got in a car with them and was off to upstate New York for the next 62 days. This was day when I look back upon it changed my life forever. I was not the most well behaved kid and I had gone through a rough patch over the last two years which lead to me getting sent away to wilderness and then later boarding school for the next 26 straight months. I had gotten kicked out of my two previous high schools and had fallen into the wrong crowd and had started using, stealing, vandalizing, and skipping school often. This move to a therapeutic boarding school could have been the difference for me and might have been the only reason why I was able to graduate with a 4.0 gpa and