It was the best day ever. I was sitting in the ocean with my mom and sis. We were diving in the waves. Ohhh no! There was something stinging my sister! She was having so much pain. She could not breathe! I looked down and something was on her chest. She tried to grab it with her hand, how it was in her hand. She hit the water with her hand and made a slash. Then my mom ripped it off and put it back into the ocean. That’s when I saw it was a big jellyfish. This was my first time looking at a jellyfish and it was very scary . This anecdote will haunt me all my life because it was something I witnessed in person. I feel that this will be a great anecdote to tell as an old lady and I would laugh a lot.
What inspired me to write this memoir was that it reminded me of the incredible and unforgettable memories I had that day and made me relive the memory and be able to imagine the scene as it all happened.
"This made me think of how common it is to get stung by a jellyfish, "It was the best day ever" makes me laugh because when you read it at the end she had a great time but her sister did not, and she also took it as a funny anecdote to tell when she is old."
--Lissy Flores
"My favorite details of the memoir was how she explain how she felt when a jellyfish was on her sister. The memory that she has with her family will always be alive in her mind and heart, they took something scary into a funny anecdote. I always try to make core memories with my family to remember in the future."
--Celeste Mejia
" 'It was the best day ever' is the phrase that I found effective in the "Jellyfish" story because this is a wonderful hook. And my favorite detail in this piece was the author’s first-time look at jellyfish and her feelings at that time. Besides, the author used a narrative style to tell about her experience with the jellyfish successfully with vivid images. This piece reminds me of the first time I got hurt by a jellyfish when I swam on the beach in front of my house."
--Binh Phuong Nguyen