Descriptive Essay About My Childhood

Jhon Williams
Writing Assignment #1
Invincible
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It was early morning of Christmas eve, the year 2002, my mom, sister, and I started on our journey to South Carolina from Florida to visit my grandparents. The weather was beautiful, like a hot summer day in the month of December, which in South Carolina it was cold. Here we go to the wilderness, no street lights, no sidewalks, and deers running everywhere. My grandparents ' red brick home in the countryside with fields across the street, wooded areas in the backyard, pigs in fences, and plenty of vegetables growing of all sorts. It was a joyous time. Unsupervised playing in the yard, at midday my grandparents would take me and my sister to the store for lunchables, and then back to jumping on the trampoline until dark falls. As the evenings drew near my grandfather would leave his rocking chair and walked to feed the pigs and harvest fresh beautiful bright colors of vegetables. Of course, I loved helping him but afraid of the pigs, telling my grandfather “be careful ' '. Late night I would hear all kinds of noises which was scary. After dark I would go to sleep as soon as possible for an early morning rise. When

At this point, it was extremely hard for me. I just wanted to find the medication that would cure their minds. But, unfortunately, when my mother returned from the seminars all news was bad. It was said at the meetings our family member dies twice to us because you don 't know those people and especially their memories of when they were in elementary school, high school or when they were dating. I watched my grandmother try to eat raw cornbread mix out of the box uncooked. She just saw the picture on the box and her mindset said to her it was cooked and ready to eat. This was extremely sad for