Personal Narrative: When I Had To Get My Snake

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“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.” People who try will succeed, while people who don't try will not succeed. This is true for me because if I hadn't worked for my snake, I would probably not have her. It took me many years to convince my mom to get me a snake. I wanted one since I was 10. I got my snake when I turned 12 at the Arizona Herpetological society. I have been taking care of 3 dogs, 3 fish, and a lizard. I also babysit my brothers a lot so that contributed. I have worked hard for my snake. I wrote a couple other essays for my mom to get my snake. The battle to get my snake took a while, but I pushed on, and even though my mom doesn't like snakes, she got me one. So I may have won in the end, but I had to lose …show more content…

I got makeup little by little, but now I have it. My mom has a lot of things I want on her NO list like no dyeing my hair, no tattoos when I grow up, and extravagant clothes. I have wanted to dye my hair for a long time now. Even though I just want to dye the ends of my hair she says no. When I grow up, I hope to get a tattoo in memory of my dog who is really old right now, named Sevy. Even though I keep losing the battle to dye my hair or get a tattoo I will persist. One day I hope to win the battle over getting my hair dyed, but I think it will be a long time. When I turn 18, I hope she changes her mind about dyeing my hair , and getting tattoos, and even if she didn’t, I will still get them. There is probably going to be a lot more battles I will face with my mom when I grow up. I might lose some I might win some, but I will grow from every …show more content…

If I’m playing a board game or card game if I'm not doing good the first couple times, I will be a sore loser and not try anymore. In Monopoly I don’t play as a character, I play as the banker so I don’t lose. I don’t like most board games, especially if I tend to lose. There is this game that we got on Christmas called Exploding Kittens I don’t play it because I'm not good at it, so I just watch. I don’t really like those kind of games, but games like Minecraft even if I die I will try and try and not stop. If I have goal I try harder in games. In Monopoly being the banker helps me with my math without paper because I'm Dyslexic. My main goal in math is to be the best I can, because I skipped 7th so sometimes I don’t understand because they learned it last year, and if we have a review, I have to learn it all new and that is a battle. I might have to fight this battle more than once which might be

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