Personal Narrative: My Journey To Ithaca

Improved Essays
My journey here has been extremely tough, frankly I don’t really know how I survived it all. Thankfully, the gods found some mercy in their hearts to let me live. I was met again with death, but that will not stop me; I am forever determined to make my way back to my home, Ithaca. Once I found my way to land, my dream that once felt so far away wasn’t anymore. I knew that if I was able to survive my first night there without anybody or anything finding me, I would have a good chance. So I cautiously hid myself inside the leaves and slept like a new born baby. On the following day, when I arouse I found myself in a deep hole of curiosity as to what kind of people I would first meet, and how’d they treat me. I decided to find out for myself, …show more content…
Soon enough, I began to actually help him by guiding him on the incognito journey to my palace, where he would ask permission from my mother to help him out on his way home. Which wasn’t going to be a big problem because I would convince her, no matter what to grant him aid. I made sure that I appeared to him as a bold and smart girl, who knew exactly what she was doing. However, in reality, I was just a girl in love. I never thought I’d understand that simple four letter word until now. And now marriage doesn’t sound like a task, it sounds like something I’d like to do with this man. I know that I am young and that I have much to learn, but if there is one thing I know, it’s that he and I are meant to be.
I really hope that I am not going crazy because that would suck. Or maybe I am thinking this way because some weird bug bit me by the stream. It might be possible that I’m still sleeping and that this is all a dream. If that be the case, I won’t to make sure that everything that I want to happen will happen. But then again this might not be a dream, and if I were to do something reckless it would live with me forever. So let me stay calm, and just help the man out. Because that is the right and ladylike thing to do. Or is

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    My childhood in New York City was very difficult for me. I grow up in a predominantly Hispanic Dominican decent neighborhood in the upper Manhattan area called Washington Heights. Washington Heights in the early 1990’s was the heart of the drug trade. At one point in the 1990’s it was considered one of the worst neighborhoods to raise a child. I remember in the news, the news anchor reported that New York City was recognized as the crime capital in the 1950's through the early 1990's.…

    • 652 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I first heard of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute my sophomore year, when someone I knew received the Rensselaer Medalist Award. After speaking with them about the award, I knew I wanted to learn more about Rensselaer. Additionally, it was the time I started creating my college list. I began to research different schools and my interest was peaked as I learned more about Rensselaer. During my junior year I was awarded with the Medalist Award.…

    • 312 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    New York otherwise known as the “Big Apple” is home to approximately 19.7 million people. In a closer lense, New York City is home to 8.4 million people. Everytime I go to New York I always spot the Empire State Building and One World Trade Center. For seven summers I went to Camp Matoaka in Maine, each year I would return to the same smiling faces. These familiar faces were always close to my heart, however they were not always in reach.…

    • 370 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Our field trip to Chicago offered me a new way of seeing the city. I have been to Chicago multiple times, yet this trip offered me an experience I was not expecting. It offered me an insight to the darkness that covers the city and the beacons of light that try to shine through that darkness. It opened my eyes to those who are searching for a truth, a love and an acceptance and are finding it in so many different places; whether it is Jesus People USA, South East Friendship Center, Olive Branch, a Krishna Temple or an Islamic Mosque. In each of these places individuals are just trying to figure out where they belong and if they can find acceptance, but what each offers is entirely different.…

    • 563 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I am the brilliant, illustrious Shadis; I reside in a comfortable forest clearing on the island of Titus. Numerous men flock from each and every town around to gaze at my luxurious charcoal black hair. Men tend to instantly fall in love with yours truly once they take a long solemn stare into my icy indigo blue eyes. Many think that my beauty compares to that of a goddess but I am not as such.…

    • 694 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A Hero's Journey The last month of summer before my junior year started was occupied with pondering and wondering what I wanted to accomplish during the upcoming school year. Sure, junior year sounds like a blast, filled with fun memories and friends. But it also doubles as approaching the cliff of adulthood that I would hit in two short years. Every step I take my junior and senior year will be one step closer to that ledge.…

    • 781 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the story of Odysseus, he goes on a long journey to get to his goal, home. His story can relate to life. Like the Odyssey, life is full of obstacles that will try to block you from your goals. Like the Odyssey, written by the famous poet homer. I will also encounter monsters in my life that will try to block me from my goal of becoming a astrophysicist.…

    • 402 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Have you ever been to Kansas? I went on a trip to Kansas about four years ago with my uncle Brian and Andy Brunsma. The reason we went down there was to buy a truck for my grandpa. We left my grandpa’s house in the morning with his Cadillac.…

    • 677 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    While you’re in New York City you absolutely enter the freedom from time. In other words, you are son engaged in the city life that you have lost tract of time. For instance, while I was in New York I was attending meetings after meetings and I barely got breaks to have fun with my friends. I engaged in many play personalities in this business trip such as the explorer, because it was my first time in New York so I found everything very amusing and it was a chaos finding the meeting places which was also fun because it let us to discover places we didn’t expect to go. Throughout the whole trip I was a collector of souvenirs I kept everything from airplane tickets to meeting agendas.…

    • 175 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    We first meet on a Saturday morning in April when our paths cross as we walk into The History Center. Ithaca is experiencing a streak of delightful weather, and as my body warms to the sunlight, my soul jumps with the excitement of the day’s prospects; I am participating in an intergenerational oral history project piloted by Ithaca’s local history organization, and today is the day I’ll meet my senior. Together, we walk to the elevator, and I strike up a conversation. Katie is equally excited for this program, filled with anticipation as she prepares to meet her teen. After a mingling period and a short orientation, a wide-brimmed black hat is passed around the room to each of the seniors.…

    • 590 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My entire life I’ve grown up watching Syracuse, whether it be football, basketball or lacrosse. I’ve attended basketball camps at the school, where I slept over in the dorms and ate breakfast in the dining hall. I’ve grown up knowing that Syracuse was where I wanted to end up and after visiting this past summer, there’s no doubt in my mind that Syracuse is the school for me. My passion in life has always been sports, specifically the operations that go into a successful organization. After touring the Falk College, I can honestly say I was blown away by how perfect it seemed to fit me.…

    • 188 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My vision started to fail on mile four of the six-mile hike. Small white specks flickered across my field of vision. The next thing to go was my hearing, followed by my ability to walk in a straight line. My platoon sergeant saw the signs of heat stroke and forced me to stop. I should have stopped myself, but all I could think was: you will finish this, or you will die trying.…

    • 250 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The New York trip opened my eyes to how unique of a city it is in America. Considering I’ve never been to Times Square, I’ve only been to the Bronx for a Yankee game, this was really an eye-opening experience to me. On the trip I didn’t know many people for a variety of reason. I’m not in the Business LLC, and I commute unlike a majority of the people I was with. Nonetheless, I was able to meet new people, but I placed a heavy emphasis on the observation of everything around me in the city.…

    • 1386 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    During the end of my senior year in High School, an opportunity arose to travel to New York City, with my friend Zach. My school’s basketball team was participating in a National tournament at Yeshiva University, where my friend Zach’s brother had an apartment nearby in Washington Heights. Hearing about the safety issues in the Heights, my parents didn’t want me roaming around the city without any adult supervision. With the backing of my Uncle Richard, who live in the Upper East Side, I began to plan my trip.…

    • 1031 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As Ben Franklin once said, “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Becoming involved was easy with the opportunities and chances that I was given at Gallimore Elementary School. One of the best memories and chances that I was given at Gallimore was when I was asked to become a classroom helper for Mrs. Miller in 4th and 5th grade. As a classroom helper I gave up my lunch and recess to help Mrs. Miller with anything she needed in the classroom such as filing, cleaning or setting up activities for the kindergartens.…

    • 1085 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays