Journal+6-+Narrative

3. Family Consider:
 * Family stories/legends
 * How people in your family met (or parted)
 * Characters in your family
 * Special family occasions
 * Family rituals/traditions
 * Roles and responsibilities in your family

Well, I have not had a lot of troubling times in my young life, but there has been some intense things that have happened. The worst thing that has probably happened to me was when my grandma died. I was in first grade, in Mr. Matthew’s class. My grandma, Pauline, lived with my family and I for as long as I can remember. She moved with us to our new house and she got her own section of the house. The day she went to the hospital, I remember it like it was yesterday. I got off the bus one day and saw my other grandparent’s car, so I was automatically confused. I walked in the house and saw my sisters, because they got home before me. They told me that my grandma was in the hospital. I didn’t believe them at first, who would believe something like that? I ran up to my grandma’s room and saw the chair flipped over, the smashed flower-pot on the floor. I still didn’t believe anyone who said something to me. My parents finally got home later that night and told us all what happened. She had a stroke, fell over, and hit her head on the radiator. A couple of days went by, and my grandma was still at the hospital. We visited her almost every day, but she was in a coma so we couldn’t talk to her. Then one night my mom brought us all into the family room. With teary eyes and a broken voice she told us that my grandma died. I didn’t believe it, I couldn’t believe it. Even at her funeral I was still waiting for her to wake up and everyone to be happy again. Everywhere around me people were crying and comforting me, but I wasn’t sad. A six year old just doesn’t understand the concept of death, so of course I wasn’t sure what was going on. It didn’t hit me until a couple months later, when I finally grasped the concept of death.