Personal Narrative: Summer In Reynosa

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Summer in Reynosa
Summer vacation are days without school work, homework, not stressing over a test. Mostly everyone takes the opportunity to explore new adventures or to enjoy the beautiful blue waves, walking through the warm sand. In summer of the year 2012 my sisters and me went to Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Reynosa is located in Mexico, it has good places you can visit. Therefore, its rare that people from United States goes for unreasonable reasons. If people would go its for cheap merchandise and cheap doctor visits. In that year Reynosa was known for all bad things such as, people being cruel and children that lived there would smoke or drink beer because it was all handed to them. The bad people would kidnapped children ages seven and …show more content…

It was like if there weren't a law to take order. People were missing mostly the teenagers girl, they were being The news back then would made statements on how children's would get raped or killed. The reporters would describe how stores were being vandalized by people known as “narcos”, “zetas”, or other names. I would also hear from friends that when they would visit is for the food and cheap merchandise.
It was my fist time going to Reynosa. My visit to Reynosa was because my sister and me wanted to meet our father. At first I thought, it’s crazy to even let my sisters and me to take the risk to go to Reynosa. My mom also scared me a bit when she told me that maybe is not a good idea to pack shorts or shirts that it revealing. She said that girls would get kidnapped and raped. Even though it was a hot summer my sisters and me force each other to take jeans. It was understandable that we wanted to know him as, he did too. However, part of me was upset that my father left when my sisters and me were younger. Reynosa was a bad place to visit my dad but, my pride wasn't so strong back then. My sisters and I ended up packing our suitcase. I couldn't get my head straight, I was thinking about how will it be at Reynosa.

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