Personal Narrative: Growing Up In South Ontario

Growing up in the parts of south Ontario was a fun and interesting lifestyle. Every weekend there'd be a neighborhood carnivals, people riding their bikes through the park or stray dogs roaming the street . I had to get use to the smell of cow manure every morning when walking outside . I could hear the noise from the 5'clock traffic near the Main Street and the laughs and screams from the park. This was the life I grew up in , and it was rough a start but it's where my dreams began. When I was four, every morning I'd wake up early and go to my neighbors back yard and play with his chihuahuas. I loved taking care of them and their puppies. It was one of my favorite things to do since my parents couldn't have dogs in the apartment.

Six months later during summer I moved to upland with my aunt and her family in there nice big apartment. It was a big change, but it was really fun to me because there was always people to play with or talk to. I would see kids playing in the little gymnasium and splashing in the pool. It was almost never quiet because neighbors would have there late night barbecues. The streets were clean, and there was people jogging and walking there dogs. It was the new life and I got used to it pretty quick .

Everything got quiet and lonely since it was hard to make friends out of school because mostly everyone around us was older. It stayed that way till my sixth birthday when I got my first dog . Finally I could have a friend of my own someone I could take care of and is always going to be with me. It was amazing to me, I named him lucky. Me and lucky did everything together we'd run around the back yard , I'd chase him into a corner then he'd chase me , we'd play fetch with a tennis ball and I'd sing him to sleep and lay with him in his dog bed he was my best friend my only