My Experience: The Great Experience Of My Life

Most people have fantastic experiences during their summer vacation; I was not so lucky. While everyone was at the beach or hanging out with friends, I was home alone. It was baseball season, and I decided not to go to my brother’s game. I sat down at the computer and started playing games, unaware of what was going on around me. My game froze abruptly, forcing me to look outside. There was a storm. It looked like it was nighttime. The sky was so dark and cloudy; the wind was whipping the branches. I sent my mom an email about the weather and asked when she would be home. Right when I got a message saying that it failed to send, two trees came crashing into my house. I was terrified. That moment in 2012 was the worst experience of my life, and I didn’t have a way to contact anyone, I didn’t realize what had happened, and I was home alone with no knowledge of when or if my family would be back.

I probably wasn’t responsible enough, but that meant most of my communication with friends was done through email. If I wasn’t connected to the Internet, I was isolated, especially since I lived ten minutes from town. You can imagine how frustrating it would have been to see a message saying that your email failed to send, but I had no time to be upset about that. Less than five seconds later, I was scared to death with debris in my hair. Being home alone without a way to call anyone is the scariest thing that can happen. It leaves you with only your thoughts, and that’s all I had when shaking in the bathtub. My family had no idea that I was okay for now, and I didn’t know if they were