I went to Miss Addie’s and she them covered me in makeup and gave me a wig to dress up older so that I would look just like mother. It takes three miles to get into town, but once I got to the hospital, Susie at the front desk knew it was me. Once she said my name I ran into the bathroom and stuffed my wig into my bag and washed all of the makeup of my face,…
When I arrived home it was dark, and I went to bed. In the morning I called Aunt Claudia. She didn’t answer. I called again around noon. She didn’t answer and after lunch I drove to see her.…
Around the time of Katie Makanya’s childhood, South Africa was beginning to change rapidly due to the discovery of diamonds, which ultimately kept bringing Europeans into their territory causing their cultures and race to blend together. This book illustrates the black South African life that Katie lives and how she uneasily adapts to the incoming European culture during those years of colonization.…
That evening, I told my mother what had happened, but she made no comment; she sat down at once, wrote another note, gave me more money, and sent me out to the grocery again. I crept down the steps and saw the same gang of boys playing down the street. I ran back into the house. “What’s the matter?” my mother asked.…
I stood there, standing on her front porch like an idiot. And she told me to leave. And there I was. I had done everything right. I got straight A's, I was on varsity soccer, I was the newspaper editor, I had tons of friends, and I wasn't good enough. I never was good enough for anything, was I? Everything I did was because I thought my parents would like me if I did it. Who was I? It wasn't until I was standing on those front steps, the house still shaking with the vibrations of a slammed door, when I realized I was never going to be good enough.…
That’s right babe, but gets this she still thinks that her tits are better than yours.…
I had just went downstairs and was heading outside to help my dad. I had just gotten out the door and my dad was talking to the neighbors and they had just went down to a shelter to get a dog a new dog. My dad told me that we didn’t have to start for another 45 minutes but I wanted to see what type of the dog my neighbors had gotten so I went over next to my dad to see.…
It was 6:00 when my mom woke us up, then she said “Get ready to go we're leaving to cedar point today” “why this early in the morning?” because we have to get on the road so we can make it as far as we can.…
“Wake up!” my mom gave me a little shove as I took the covers off my face and looked at the clock, it was 7:20. I hopped off the bed and skipped to the bathroom to brush my teeth. I was so excited; this whole week was FCAT week at school and today was the math portion of the test. Last year, 3rd grade, I got a 3 on it while on the reading part I had gotten a 5. This year, I was determined to get a 4, no matter how difficult the test may be. I put my long, wavy brown hair in a ponytail and, being the girly girl that I am, decorated it with a pink bow my aunt had given me for Christmas. With a big smile on my face I went to my mom’s room to see if she was ready so we could be on our way, I saw her sitting down looking at her nails, “mommy, we’re going to be late” she looked up at me and it looked like she had been crying, she faked a smiled, got her bag and out the door we went.…
The story of Matt Keiser lesson correlates very much so with my life in many different ways. The lesson of the story is to not have other people to decide what your personality is.…
When I first met Mama in the beginning of the story, Mama longed for the acceptance and love…
I ran circles my mom is the best she got me the jacket that I wanted. Yours truly ran into the bathroom and looked at myself, ”Man I look good” I said as slicked my hair back and looked like James Bond.…
Even now that the eyes of the teacher looking off the platform is gone due to the…
"Nikki, wake up your gonna be late for the first day at school." That was my mother a real pain in my ass, she thinks that I 'll turn into some hipster weed smoker as soon as I get to this new school in California. Being the uptight mother as she is she storms into my room and starts to yell "Nikki!!!! It 's 8:00 and you 're still not ready, I hope your not staying up till crazy hours in the morning cause if I find you on that laptop at 3am in the morning I will personally come up here and chuck that contraption out the window." I rolled my eyes knowing that she wouldn 't actually do that to my expensive laptop that my father got me for Christmas last year. I sprung out of bed and headed into my bathroom slamming the door in her face. I ran a nice hot shower. I stepped into it getting goosebumps as the warm water trickled over my bare skin. I hope out and moisturised my face, then grabbing my make-up bag I headed over to the mirror. I applied bbcream and mascara to my long lashes, I then grabbed my hair dryer, and dried my hair completely, I then straightened it and pinned my fringe to one side with a bow,…
I felt Powerless. Embarrassed. Ashamed. Everyone is glancing at me. “BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, the school bell…