Personal Narrative: My Trip to Moscow

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I was 11 years old when I visited Russia for the third time. It was during the summer when I visited Russia for the first two times but this time it was totally different for me since my visit was in winter. The weather was so cold that I remember not being able to sleep because of it my first night there. I remember pretending that I was smoking because I was able to see my breath as a big white smoke. Snow was covering everything around me and I remember that some of the cars were totally covered with it. Some of the buildings were covered with snow up to the first level windows and I remember being surprised of seeing that because it was the first time I have ever seen something like that. I was wearing some heavy warm clothes and a pair of black leather boots. I remember playing snowball fight with my brother and even though I had been hit by a snow ball so many times that day and my face was hurting me badly, I still had tons of fun that day. The next day me, my brother, my mom, and my uncle all went to an outdoor swimming pool. I saw people jumping in the pool like crazy and it...

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