Personal Narrative Essay

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The most challenging thing this year for me has been waking up and getting to school on time. I know what your thinking right now, thats it, getting up in the morning is the hardest challenge that you have endured this year. Well my answer to that is I’m not a morning person. In fact, I hate waking up early, I enjoy sleeping. When I sleep in I feel more refreshed, but if I sleep in too long then I feel as if i'm not motivated for the rest of the day. The Main reason this has been a challenge for me is because of summer. During the summer of 2017, I had stayed up really late and woke up late in the day. Though I realize now that what I had done was the worst thing I could have done. This caused my sleep schedule to be so messed up that it made

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