Personal Narrative: Moving Back In High School

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"Turn right. No left! Let’s go round these trees. No let's move back! Okay, it's straight ahead. No it’s just around the corner!" With the hot Sun blazing over our heads, we stood on our blistered feet at our sixth dead end, lost again. It seemed like all we we did was glare and argue with each other, blaming one another for our predicament.
Earlier that day around nine o'clock that morning, our Leadership Training Coordinators had led us out of our school into the unknown and left us, giving us only a compass and a map to navigate our way back to school. Now it was around one o'clock, almost four hours later, and we seemed to have made very little progress.
Throughout our seemingly futile journey, I had been stung by two red ants, had fallen

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