Personal Narrative: Isabella

During the summer program I met many different people from various places. One person that I met who I became good friends with was Isabella. Isabella is a high school student going into her junior year. She’s from Boston, Massachusetts and lives with her mom, dad, and older brother. Her dad moved to the United States when he was younger from Argentina, and her mom was born in Italy and also moved to Boston when she was younger. The class she took in the summer program was creative writing: journalism and nonfiction. Isabella and I both have parents that weren’t born in the United States. My parents were both born in Albania, making me first generation just like Isabella is. During the spring season, Isabella and I both play softball. We agree
that softball is fun to play no matter how good or bad you are at playing it. Me and Isabella discussed how we were most likely going to a college in New England because neither us want to be too far from our families. We’d rather stay closer to make going home for the weekend easier. We both have an older brother that’s currently in college.
Isabella’s brother is studying law while my brother is studying accounting. Both of us agree that being the youngest gives us more freedom than some would think. Our parents are less strict with us compared to how they were with our older sibling/s. In our freetime me and Isabella both like watching TV and movies. Isabella and I both watch the TV show Grey’s Anatomy and we both agree it’s one of the best shows. Isabella is very passionate about writing, especially journalism. We discussed why she was so interested in journalism and I learned that journalism not only gives you a way to notify everyone about current events, but it also gives you a voice. With journalism, people are able to discover the truth and give that truth to the public. I also learned how different her life is from mine. Since she lives in the city of Boston there’s a lot of activities for her to do, it’s never boring. Living in Boston also allows her to be able to walk places. I told her how I live in Connecticut and there isn’t much to do. There isn’t anyplace to walk to, everything requires driving. Something else I learned from Isabella was to not let events that don’t go my way bring me down, I should just keep
trying. After learning about why Isabella’s so passionate about journalism and about her life in Boston, we discussed why I was taking the science of the psychology. I told her how I’m interested in the field of science, specifically medical, and taking psychology is very important because I can get a better understanding of the brain. I explained how the brain is responsible for all human behaviors, and that it basically controls who you are as a person. I also told her that learning why people do what they do interests me a lot because the topic is intriguing. Something else I told Isabella was how even if some goal seems unreachable or very unlikely, she should still fight for it.