Personal Narrative: Survivor

I've always dreamed about being on TV as a little kid, but who knew that I could actually do it on one of my favorite shows: Survivor. Survivor takes surviving in the wilderness to the max. You are stranded on an island with about 23 other people, living on rice and beans and in a shelter that you created from the environment (bamboo, leaves, etc.). The point of the game is to survive mentally, physically, emotionally and most of all, socially. You are put into teams in the beginning and you compete with each other in body and mind breaking challenges. If you lose the challenge, your team has to vote someone on your team home. This is where alliances and your social game come into play. To survive, you need to make allies, but also learn when
to vote them out to further your own "life" in the game. It is a very strategic, competitive and social game which is why I am enamored with it. I believe that I am acutely attuned to peoples emotions, facial expressions and their body language and how that reveals what they are feeling. This would give me needed leverage in dealing with people and a better judgement on if they were lying to me or not. This is your whole life for a month, so by the end of the game, (if you make it) you are not only mentally and physically drained, but also emotionally. There is a backlight to everything anyone says to you in this game. It takes all of your energy and thoughts to process if what they are saying is true or not and if you should believe them. At the very end of the game, after all but 3 have been voted off, the people who left the game come back to vote on who wins the entire game and the $1 million prize. This is the tricky part. If you have made

friends on the jury, you most likely win out of favoritism. If you have made enemies throughout the show, then they will turn on you just like you turned on them. I am so passionate about this game and it is my dream to be on the show. Now, as the host Jeff Probst says, "Survivors ready!"