Personal Narrative: Discovering Jungle Juice

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Discovering Jungle Juice Many college students go out, drink alcohol, and discover themselves. On the night of Halloween, I discovered Jungle Juice. It was your typical college party, the house and the people were dressed in costumes. The room was filled with dinosaur costumes, bunnies, salt and pepper, and many basic Halloween costumes. The house was dark with strobe lights and loud music, with a playlist of popular rap songs of the 2016. We were in Fayetteville, and luckily no one that I knew from my hometown, Sanford, was there. Since I never needed to drink to have a good time, but of course, it was not new to me, I decided to act sane, and sober. Being sober does not mean, there is no fun. A friend of mine who was hosting the party, asked if I wanted something to drink, he handed me what he called “Jungle Juice”. Naïve Alyssa, with an obsession of …show more content…
As I danced to the music and became close friends with almost everybody, to us we felt free and young. As the night went on, a few of my friends and I decided to go to “Sharkies”, a strip club in downtown Fayetteville. The guys I were with could not help but stare and drool into their drinks. Since I was stable, but still drunk, all I could think about was how good Waffle House sounded. It’s almost three in the morning, and on a regular night, I am lights out by nine. As my friends stared at the strippers, I dozed off. It was not until I heard my friend shouting and tugging at me to wake up. One of them ended carrying me to the car and grabbing my I.D. since I was not responsive. It was not until the next morning, that they told me, I tried to get on stage and dance, they pulled me off and got us kicked out. Now, whenever I see “Jungle Juice”, I turn the other way and run. It is not a drink to mess with, especially when you originally wanted to be sober. It is also not fun the next morning when you have a meeting for work with your district