Personal Narrative Essay About Winter Breaks

The incident that popped right in front of my face

What do you think about winter breaks? First of all, I thought that everyday of the winter break I would be happy. Why, you ask? It is obvious! the first semester of school is over! But I was wrong. I made a small accident in Rome Italy during my winter vacation. On that day my family and I were taking an excursion to Florence from Rome, Italy. It was about noon and our train was departing at about 1 pm. My family and I were strolling back from lunch. We had Korean food; I didn’t know Korean food was famous in Italy. I thought to myself, “Maybe lots of Koreans live here.”

We had about 1 hour left until we had to ride the train. We were staying in the hotel lobby; I was playing on my phone and the rest of the family doing their own business. All of the sudden, my dad announced, “Time to go guys! We have to leave right now.” The hotel porter brought out our luggage to us. Our dad sighed and said,

Where was the last place you used it?” My sister was laughing at me. I felt like smacking her, but I thought there was no time to quarrel with her. I had to find my phone and there was only a few minutes left. I thought of a list of places that I stopped by before I came to this train station. The hotel, the restaurant, or the middle of the street. I asked myself, “ What would you do if you lost your phone?”

I couldn’t abandon my phone. This was a very serious situation. Ahh! I wasn’t sure, but I was pretty sure that I last used it in the hotel. Unless I run really fast, I couldn’t go to the hotel because our train was departing very soon. My mom encouraged me to go to the hotel and look for my phone, so she told me that she will go with me to find my phone. I dashed through the streets of Rome like a cheetah chasing for its prey. My mom was too slow to catch up with me. What should I do? Should I abandon her or wait for her. I chose to go for the