Summer Sixteen-Personal Narrative

-Who does not remember when Drake dropped his iconic single “Summer Sixteen” and how he started the summer with good vibes. It is actually so funny to me how almost everyone can remember summer ’16 so clearly because it was that iconic. Well at least it was for me. In my culture, every summer all Eritrean soccer teams from different countries all over the world meet in one city in the United States for a week-long tournament to prove who is the best. July 2016, it was in Oakland, California and luckily for my first year attending I had my squad of friends with me. They were Simon, Filmon, Aman, Bana, Senait, Mereb and my older sister, Mical. I have never been on vacation, the type of vacation where you leave your home state, without my parents so I had no idea what this trip

It was packed I tell you. Just by looking at the crowd I could tell the gigantic white boat that was 3 stories was where the party was being hosted. Antsy and annoyed was what I was feeling because how the hell was I getting into this party! I was wasting my time. All of a sudden, my friends were pulling out their IDs and fake IDs (shaking my head). There was no hesitance to when I started calling them all traitors. As a result my sister told me to walk around and ask other females if they had an extra ID or to do the old pass back trick with me at the gate. So, I went searching around the board walk and found a brown skin curly haired girl like me and asked if I could use her ID or if she had a spare. Sparingly she did have an extra one, but it was a fake ID. And yes it did not look legit. The girl told me to relax and just use it because it “never gave her problems”. What is funny is I never got her real name. When I walked back to my friends and showed them the ID they all started cackling at me because the age on it was not even suffice to 21 and the picture was