My grilled cheese consisted of pita bread and hummus. When I was younger, my background was a feature I desperately tried to hide.

She insisted that I meet this stranger. However, I was reluctant.

I hope that my voice will jump out to the reader and show my range of emotion throughout the trip.

My theme is about remembrance and answering the question what happens after we are gone.

In my narrative I would like to focus on the topic of friendship emerging from difficulty.

It was a beautiful, tragic, depressing, and confusing event for me.

The ceremony itself is inherently commemorating a major change in one’s life.

Flowing with the theme of the narrative, the opening voice will be rather down and unhappy, followed by a calming and intelligent voice (the voice of my father), and close with a sort of enlightened and humorous voice.

My audience will be my peers—people who may go through a similar change or realization—and also myself, so I can truly reflect on my experience and almost figure out how it precisely changed me.

Not only was I allergic to them, but they just seemed like glaring, hairball coughing, irrelevant creatures in my eyes.

The voice and style will be a combination of description and dialogue, and will be in a sort of terrified, frantic, awe at my situation.

I can pour my emotions into the writing better.

I hope to talk about the changes I have undergone in the last 6 months, both coming to terms with moving away from home and trying to integrate into a different country and culture.

What I want to focus on in my narrative is the idea of escape and relaxation and how these two ideas are connected.

Mostly, I hope to make the scene and the characters come alive and allow the reader to draw thematic conclusions from the genuine interactions that took place.