Personal Narrative: My First Day At The Arlington Heights Memorial Library

I pulled up to the front door of the two story house that glowed with the orange and yellow sunset behind it. With every slow step I took the thought of the Spencer and Lauren not liking me became more surreal. They were only two and four, but somehow their opinion mattered a lot to me. I got to the front door step and I admired the bright purple and red tulips that were flourishing in the lawn, and all of a sudden the door swung open. “You are early,” my future boss, Jennifer said with a surprised look on her face. I had not noticed, but she was right, I was twenty minutes early. When we met at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library she mentioned that she was always running late and that is was something she needed to work on. Two

I looked over at the train station area and Spencer had started to make a train track with the help of Poppy and Chad. I could not help but notice that is was almost exactly like the one we had built at the library, with the exception that this track was a lot bigger. He then continued to put all of the trains in order by number and then proceeded to mention the four most important to him, which were; Thomas, Percy, Hero, Connor, and of course Spencer. I asked him how he memorized the names of each train engine and he showed me that each engine name went in a size order and then by number. I kneeled next to him and helped him finish the train track just like when we spent time at the

I feared that the interrogation would continue, but the interview turned into a dinner invitation. Spencer pulled me close to him and asked me to sit in between Lauren and him so that I could help cut their dinner up. I took that as a sign that I was liked by both kids and it made me feel a bit more confident about getting the job. Questions about me and my family were snuck in between bites of the vegetable lasagna but I was more relaxed because I knew I had done a good job playing with Spencer and Lauren in their play