Personal Narrative: My Trip To Guatemala

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My most important experience taught me a lesson about life. It happened to me; I didn’t even cause it. On my summer vacation to Guatemala was memorable and life-changing. I was there to visit my family for the first time and I already met two of my uncles before I went to Guatemala because they lived with me in America then they moved back to Guatemala. When I saw my cousin's I started crying and started to feel all these emotions that I never felt before that I actually had a family and I had more than my parents and my sister. I was even more emotional when I saw my other sister and brothers for the first time that moment I realized when I was younger, my mom would always tell me about my other sister and brothers and that when I get older …show more content…
One day in the afternoon, my cousin's Luis Enrique was outside playing soccer with his father and all of a sudden we heard gunshots and the first thing I did was go inside and cover for protection, but i saw that my uncle went inside and come outside real quick with a gun and begin shooting at the people that were shooting at my cousin father. When their shooting was done, we all went where my cousin’s father was lying and I saw that he was shot 7 times all over the body and I knew that I had to get my cousin away from the horrible scene. When I got him away from the scene, I had to go back and get my uncle settled and get him away from the gun so he doesn’t hurt anybody else. When everything was calm for a second I finally realized what actually happened and that everything from here on out would change forever. I was fearing for my family that mattered to me the most and I was thinking “what if they come up to kill us?” and “why did they kill him and nobody else?” There were so many questions in my head and at the same time I heard was my grandmother crying and saying why did this happen. I was motionless for a while and didn’t know how to respond or what to say, but to just cry and feel sorry for my cousin, I would try to comfort him and I knew at the time he didn’t know what was going on because he was 8 years old and didn’t understand what just happened but when he saw his dad was getting
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