Catharina.
Catharina.
To complete the property tour, we looked at the bedroom, comfortably proportioned for a queen sized bed and a floor-to-ceiling closet with a large window facing Paolina Park. The attractive bathroom was functional and came equipped with all the essentials. Lastly, we looked at the garage. Maria Laura informed us that Italians refer to a garage as a “car box”. The car box was large enough to accommodate a mid-sized car, a workbench, and storage for tools and seasonal items. I was overjoyed…
On the weekend while celebrating labor and my sister birthday party, we went back to my old hometown. While in Texas we were hungry driving around looking for a good place to go eat. We decided to go and try a Mexican restaurant located in Arlington Texas, where my friend Jose Reyes lives.…
Monday- I am ready to stat week 4!! I like being in the office but I prefer being in the back. It entirely too much drama going on in here today. The woman training me is really on her last strike and she just seems to be getting on everyone nerves (including mines). I look forward to a better tomorrow.…
I have gone to Camp Sierra Vista for the past eight years of my life. Camp has taught me many things. How to be myself, how to work well with others, how to have fun, and mainly how to be a leader. I was never really one to be a leader of a group at school, but at camp, I was.…
What is a legacy? Lin Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton described it as “planting seeds in a garden you never get to see”. In a similar way, the Broadway musical, In The Heights, sings about continuing what is passed down to you because one day it may be gone. One song in particular titled, “Paciencia y Fe” inspires me to work as hard as I can just like Abuela Claudia did when she immigrated from Cuba. The Broadway hits’ harmonies and melodies have instilled in me a sense of hope for the future, where I can continue a family legacy.…
At times when I grow bored about living in Louisiana, the state’s remarkable culture, food, and geography soothes my adventurous desires to relocate. While a lack of activities to engage in is frequent when living in “the bowl,” going on a boat ride on a beautiful day eliminates my state of idleness. One might infer that water is just water if he sees it all the time because it is always there. When I visualize water, I think of my late grandmother who loved Louisiana’s bodies of water.…
As he rose to his feet, a hint of a smirk toyed with the very corners of her berry red lips. Gradually, she began to move her hips again and found herself in sync with the flow of the music. Santanico ran her hands all through her body, moving her hips slow and sensually, almost hypnotizing, all while glancing at Stefan. She made it seem as if she were pointing to him, signaling him to come closer— to come to her, with the same sultry look she had worn all while dancing.…
“When I was ten years old, my brother Miguel came back from the U.S. to visit us. When he was ready to leave, he told my mom, ‘Hey, are you going to let Kiko (which was my nickname) come to the U.S., so he can go to school and have an opportunity?’ and my mom turned to me and said, ‘Do you want to go with him?’ Then I looked at her and replied, ‘Do you want me to go?’ and she nodded in approval, so I went into the house, got a backpack, and put three pants, three shirts, and a few other things in there because I didn’t have many belongings. I then went back outside, jumped into the car, and left my mom. I didn’t see my mom again until I was a senior in high school, and a lot took place during those years” (Castellanos).…
Five, four, three, two, one – blast off! The old truck backed out of the driveway, they were off to get a Christmas tree. Alan is so excited to finally be on the way, Mom and Dad were taking so long to get ready! This time Alan remember to grab the hand-saw, because dad always forgets. After twenty minutes of driving, up and down the bumpy road the family arrives in the deep, dark forest. Alan is the first to see the perfect tree standing right out in the open. Mom thinks it is too small and dad says the tree is very skinny. Alan thought the tree was just perfect, so he grabbed the saw and cut it down. The tree was not heavy at all, he was able to pull it behind him all the way back to the truck. Once the tree was in the house, the…
Galatians 2:20” I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.” Knowing Jesus on a personal level is the greatest thing in the world. When we come to know Jesus all the angels in Heaven rejoice. Having a relationship with the Lord can change your life forever. I love knowing that There is a God up in Heaven that I can go to when things get out of hand. Glorifying God for the rest of my life will be something I will always cherish.…
“Before I suffered the loneliness forced upon me on Calypso’s Island, I had sojourned on the Island of Zýmosi. My visit lasted merely ten days, but a brutal ten days it was. The island overflowed with trees as tall as the mast on a Greek Bireme circa 500 BCE. I slithered my way into the trees, hoping to find a soul kind enough to provide Xenia, however the maze of trees clouded my view of the path. The miniscule pathway encrusted with dirt and pebbles, led to the tree towering over all. My eyes ascended up the trunk hoping to encounter the owner of the land. Instead, my eyes united with the eyes of a man dangling from the most elevated branch in the tree. His limbs flailed around in the wind with no sign of control. I thrusted myself upon the branch grasping onto the ground and my body vanished into the cyclopean bundle of leaves. Bustling through the greens, a flailing body laid upon a thin branch waiting to snap, caught my eye. My feet leapt ahead of me in an a desperate attempt…
When asked to write about a childhood experience most people think of the time they lost their first tooth when they were 6, or about the time they started school when they were 5, however, I’m going to write about summer. It wasn’t just any summer it was the summer that I went to the lake with my Dad and Papa. I was about 4 and couldn’t be any more excited about what was going to happen…
Ever since I was born, I was a military brat. Not knowing where to call home, or if any place could be home, I moved. I moved six times, four of those places were towns that nobody could think about. Germany, North Carolina, Alaska, North Carolina, Germany, and Alaska, yet no place to call home. May 22, 1999, my first day on this world; Kronach hospital had its first American baby in their hands, yet they acted like I was a different species. The only event I remember was when I was about one. While I was one, I grabbed everything in my reach, even a grill handle. As a baby, I did not know that the handle was moving, the grill top had smashed my thumb. Ever since that event, I now have a starfish mark on the side of my right thumb from where the stiches were.…
The event is when I went on a Calkins campus trip that lasted about a week. I went with a bunch of friends, the routine is that we first gather at culkin's campus and then we went on a trip somewhere to learn more about nature first we went crayfish trapping, I caught a lot of crayfish, but unfortunately we had to let them go, so we couldn't eat them.…
At six years old, I believed in magic. I believed in Atlantis. I even believed in the Tooth Fairy. I would wake up in the middle of the night convinced that I would finally catch the Tooth Fairy. However, all I would ever find was a dollar hidden under my pillow. Out of all the things I believed in, I believed in Santa Claus the most. However, on one fateful Christmas Eve, my beliefs were shattered. As my father and I were driving home from Pizza Hut, I kept telling him to drive faster so I could get home in time to see Santa Claus. He then told me five words that completely changed my life: Santa Claus is not real. I was shocked. Everything that I believed in seemed to come crashing down. What else was not true? I felt like I took the red pill and awoke from The Matrix. This one event transformed me from a naive, gullible kid to a skeptic. I lost my sense of magic.…