Personal Narrative: A Day At The Gettysburg Film

2:00 AM, I was awoken by my cousin and all I felt was excitement and exhaustion. Right away, I called my friends to wake them up. There was no “Good morning, Janie.” on the other end of the phone call. The only greeting I got was drowsy voices saying, “Yeah, I’m up.” I hopped out of bed, running on only 3 hours of sleep. My body wasn’t ready to begin this journey, the excitement in me was the only thing getting me through Monday morning.

I arrived at the middle school and immediately found my friends to make sure I wasn’t the only one that overpacked. We slowly dragged our bags to get them checked and stopped at every station before we were all gathered in the gym. As we waited to board the buses, everyone was bubbling with anxiety. My
About 3 hours into the bus ride, the bus driver that would be driving us around DC arrived. Little did we know, Chris would be the best bus driver ever. My headphones covered my ears and my friends took pictures of me sleeping as we headed to Gettysburg, PA.

We arrived in Gettysburg and filed into the room where we watched the Gettysburg Film. I recalled a couple of random facts from the film as we moved on to the painting of the battle at Gettysburg. I was astonished at how realistic the painting was and I really tried to pay attention because I was very intrigued by all of the little details in the painting and the story that went with it all. The tour of downtown Gettysburg was really neat. The view on top of the hills on the battlefield was beautiful, too.

The next few hours on the bus to DC were a blur of talking about how excited we were, trying to sleep, and listening to throwback songs. I don’t think I have ever been as excited as I was when we arrived at the hotel. My friends and I rushed up to our room and started organizing our stuff, in awe that we got to stay in the hotel room all week with each