Writing Skills: A Personal Narrative, "First Day in America" you are asked to write a personal essay, based solely on your first-hand personal experience(s), told from the first-person point of view (using the pronoun "I"), meeting the length requirement of between 1200 words. This essay should not require or contain any type of research; it should be told from thoughts and memories. In short, this essay should be about you and your experience(s).