Personal Narrative: The Game That Changed My Life

In seventh grade I wanted to tryout for volleyball. I was very nervous because I had never played it before. I was super happy when I found out all my friends and I made the team. We had a lot of practices in December to get ready for games in January. I was really nervous for our first game. Our first game was supposed to be right after christmas break ended, but we had a snow day so it was cancelled. I wished it hadn’t been so I could just get it over with, but i was gonna have to wait. We were scheduled for another game later that week. I woke up with a phone ringing and an answering machine saying that school was cancelled due to boiler issues. I sat in bed thinking I had once again gotten lucky and we had no game, I was wrong. We were
still going to have a game because it was at another school. All day I had thoughts going through my head, What if I do bad? What if I don’t know where to go? What if I don’t know what to do? As I boarded the bus I was excited but still very nervous. When we pulled up to the school my heart pounded with fear, my whole body shook, and my stomach ached. As we got ready to play the game I was super nervous. We got to serve first. Guess who got to serve the first serve of the season? Me! Luckily me serve went over and I was relieved. We ended up losing pretty bad. I was just glad the first game was over. After the game I had Hope and Payton spend the night. It was an exciting day. Life Lesson: Take changes.