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Personal Narrative Essay

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Even though I live in Negaunee and go to school there, I consider Marquette my hometown. Marquette holds so much more memories for me, and since I live in Negaunee township I am almost closer to Marquette anyway. When I think of Marquette I feel nostalgia, but I also feel the longing to move on and see new things. I think of all the childhood memories, my favorite places, all of my friends, and yet I still long to see new things. I feel trapped and the need to go see new things, make new memories, and meet new people. My family moved to Marquette when I was 2 years old. My dad got a job at Pioneer Surgical (now RTI Surgical), and my mom was a NMU student finishing up her teaching degree. At first we lived in the town homes right near the NMU campus. I don’t remember much from that time because I was so little. One of the few things I remember is the glowing stars and moon on our …show more content…

At the time it was just my older sister Abby and I, and we got to do a lot more special things with my mom before my brothers came along. Since my mom was working to pay off her schooling and my dad was also working, we had a lot of babysitters. My favorite babysitter was my Aunt Deb. For a while she lived in an apartment while she was a student at NMU, and we had many special times there. I remember her cat and her black fish with big eyes. I remember playing “Go Fish” in her living room on her coffee table, and I remember eating a lot of Mac n cheese and lemonade. Another one of our favorite things to do with her was style her hair and become airplanes. To become an airplane, she would put our stomachs on her feet and lift us up into the air. To this day she still remembers doing these things with us, and it is fun to see her have a daughter of her own now. But even though we are older and don’t get to see her much, my sister and I still love when we get to see her and we fight about being her favorite

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