Personal Narrative: A Trip To Mexico
A Trip to Mexico (rough draft) It was December 2010 and my family and I were planning to go on a trip to Mexico in December for Christmas break because me and my siblings were out of school. We were packed our clothes and ready to leave. We were waiting for my uncle to come to our house so we could go and get ready to leave. We left Houston around 8pm, and my uncle drove the Nissan Frontier truck and we went straight to 59 south towards Victoria. When we got Laredo around 12 am, we took a break at a corner store to put some gas in the car and buy something to eat, then we were ready to go. It was a long trip, I had needed to stretch my legs out. After we got our snacks, we left the corner store, and we headed straight to the border line. I
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Of course I have greeted them, everybody had to greet them because that’s what everybody does when it comes to greeting. I went upstairs, My mom was unloading the suitcases. She was giving my cousins the clothes that we don’t really use and other used clothes that my dad bought from his school. It was a lot, there were sweaters, jackets, t-shirts, pants, shoes that looked used like new. My cousins really enjoyed these clothes even though they didn’t notice they were used, but they still loved it. My mom bought my cousin who was 12 years old a new pair of soccer shoes because he was in a soccer team and they pretty much fit his size. He really enjoyed. My other cousin was trying to fit the Converse shoes He wanted to take all the shoes, but my mom told him to pick only what you really like and the rest of the shoes would be for your brothers. I started laughing, so he decided to pick the Converse shoes. After my cousins picked up the clothes, my mom, my siblings and I were in the living room, we had a little talk about how was the border line , and other family histories. I wasn’t really paying attention until somehow my cousins came up to me and asked me how to says the words in English. I teach them how to say the words correctly, it seems that they can’t pronounce the words. I ask them “ doesn’t the teacher teach you English class?” my cousin said “ they do, but they don’t teach us
Of course I have greeted them, everybody had to greet them because that’s what everybody does when it comes to greeting. I went upstairs, My mom was unloading the suitcases. She was giving my cousins the clothes that we don’t really use and other used clothes that my dad bought from his school. It was a lot, there were sweaters, jackets, t-shirts, pants, shoes that looked used like new. My cousins really enjoyed these clothes even though they didn’t notice they were used, but they still loved it. My mom bought my cousin who was 12 years old a new pair of soccer shoes because he was in a soccer team and they pretty much fit his size. He really enjoyed. My other cousin was trying to fit the Converse shoes He wanted to take all the shoes, but my mom told him to pick only what you really like and the rest of the shoes would be for your brothers. I started laughing, so he decided to pick the Converse shoes. After my cousins picked up the clothes, my mom, my siblings and I were in the living room, we had a little talk about how was the border line , and other family histories. I wasn’t really paying attention until somehow my cousins came up to me and asked me how to says the words in English. I teach them how to say the words correctly, it seems that they can’t pronounce the words. I ask them “ doesn’t the teacher teach you English class?” my cousin said “ they do, but they don’t teach us