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How To Write A Personal Narrative Essay

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Here I am driving myself crazy over this essay I have to write for my English class. Yes! I have to do a personal narrative essay for an English class! And, yes, that means the essay must be written in English! Well, it may be an easy task for a native English speaker student, “a piece of cake” like they say but for me, a Puerto Rican, born and raised in Puerto Rico, whose native language is not English but Spanish this a rather challenging task or so I thought. So let me tell you how this “Writing a Personal Narrative Essay” homework affected me and my perception about formally writing in English. I remember my first day of my English class and I remember exactly how I felt, I was so excited but so scared at the same time, like a fist grader …show more content…

It was amazing to listen to her words flowing so easily, so magically it mesmerized me; they reminded me of the bubbles my kids blow out of the bubble wand, floating in the air so smoothly.
Then it hit me and it all clicked, I felt an awakening I can even say it was almost surreal. I got pen and paper, sat down and started writing and I just could not stop. My ideas kept flowing like an overflowing river, like a fresh water spring. Suddenly I was no longer afraid of writing in English and as I lost my fears, I stopped being so self-conscious and my self-confidence kept growing and growing setting me free. Free as a bird. And boy, what a great feeling that was!
During the process of doing this assignment I learned that writing a personal narrative essay should not be a stressful nor a difficult task because after all you are writing about your own personal experience, your thoughts and feelings during that event and believe me, nobody would make a better narrator of your personal experience than yourself. You just have to cast your fears aside and let the words flow just like Ms. Day does in

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