Event That Changed My Life
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Hannah P
Pre AP English II
September 19, 2012
The Event That Changed My Life
There are many things in this world that one can do to completely change their entire outlook on life. They could become a stronger follower of God, visit a Buddhist temple, lose a loved one, or donate to a shelter or store for the less fortunate. An event that definitely changed my life for the better was when I was at a battered women’s shelter when I was 9 years old and realized just how much of a blessing of a life I have.
I was in the third grade the year we volunteered at the shelter. My mom Katherin had recently wed my step dad Wes. Also they had just had a little baby girl, my half sister Ella. This had been a busy year for my family because we were also new to the state of Georgia. We had just moved from Arkansas. My mom had been looking at places for the family to volunteer at for the holidays because we had never done anything like that before. My mom had found a battered womens shelter in Atlanta and signed us up to serve Thanksgiving.
We were all excited about doing thanksgiving in a new place. I was a little skeptical at first then my mom told me that there would be kids for me to play with there so I was a lot more excited. Once we got there on Thanksgiving Day It was great, the women and their children were so happy that we were there. At first I didn’t really understand why they were so happy, I mean for all I knew they did this every year, but now I have come to realize that for those women and children it was a huge deal because most people don’t do nice things for less fortunate people all the time. My mom had been right about all the kids that would be there. The kids were all really nice and fun! A lot of the kids clothes looked either to small or really dirty but I had expected it because my mom told me that these people didn’t have very much money to buy new clothes or toys. There was one little girl in particular that was the reason I had
Hannah P
Pre AP English II
September 19, 2012
The Event That Changed My Life
There are many things in this world that one can do to completely change their entire outlook on life. They could become a stronger follower of God, visit a Buddhist temple, lose a loved one, or donate to a shelter or store for the less fortunate. An event that definitely changed my life for the better was when I was at a battered women’s shelter when I was 9 years old and realized just how much of a blessing of a life I have.
I was in the third grade the year we volunteered at the shelter. My mom Katherin had recently wed my step dad Wes. Also they had just had a little baby girl, my half sister Ella. This had been a busy year for my family because we were also new to the state of Georgia. We had just moved from Arkansas. My mom had been looking at places for the family to volunteer at for the holidays because we had never done anything like that before. My mom had found a battered womens shelter in Atlanta and signed us up to serve Thanksgiving.
We were all excited about doing thanksgiving in a new place. I was a little skeptical at first then my mom told me that there would be kids for me to play with there so I was a lot more excited. Once we got there on Thanksgiving Day It was great, the women and their children were so happy that we were there. At first I didn’t really understand why they were so happy, I mean for all I knew they did this every year, but now I have come to realize that for those women and children it was a huge deal because most people don’t do nice things for less fortunate people all the time. My mom had been right about all the kids that would be there. The kids were all really nice and fun! A lot of the kids clothes looked either to small or really dirty but I had expected it because my mom told me that these people didn’t have very much money to buy new clothes or toys. There was one little girl in particular that was the reason I had