personal essay, based solely on your first-hand personal experience

Exam 007127:

My Trip to Mexico

Writing Skills:  A Personal Narrative, 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 1500 words.  This essay should not require or contain any type of research; it should be told from thoughts and memories.

[See attachment in the example of what I previously wrote that was rejected by my Instructor. Use that as a guide for your original writing please.]