Personal Narrative: My Life As An Outsider

Looking back on my life there haven’t been a lot of times where I felt like an outsider. I always had a group of friends, a family that loved me, and I like to think that my peers always thought of me as a pretty fun to be around person. However last year there was a time where I did feel as though rejection was prominent in my life.. My senior year of high school I was enrolled in a teleproductions class. Basically in this class I learned how to write, shoot , edit, and produce short films. In this class we also covered our schools sporting events as well. My teacher and I would often talk football and he noticed that I really knew football well. As a result I was given the opportunity to do play by play commentary for our school's football team. I was very excited about this until about mid way

I could either do what my principal and my teacher wanted and just sugarcoat everything. Or I could come up with a new way to say if we were playing bad without singling anyone out, and that's what I chose to do. My plan was to just present the facts without letting too much of negative personal opinion out. At the start of the next game I bregundely read the letter and then crumpled it up and threw it across the broadcasting booth. During the game, and the remainder of the season. I presented the facts and just the facts. That's not to say that I wouldn’t offer an opinion or a word of advice. But made sure that my opinions weren’t too negative as well as making sure that they were not sugarcoated. After the season was over people started calling my teacher and asking if I would be covering the basketball games too. When he asked why, most people praised my knowledge of the game as well as me not being afraid to speak my mind if the team was playing poorly. One fan even said “Ya know we had a really bad team this year, but i'm glad I didn't have to listen to some kid trying to explain why we are the best, when we