I awoke with a pleasant touch on my shoulder. My blue cotton shirt was all wrinkled and my pants were wrinkled up‚ too. Then it came to my mind that I slept in too long. We needed to catch the 6:30 a.m. fly to Florida. Because this destroyed our plans‚ my mom and dad were making scrambled eggs with pancakes and some yummy bacon. I felt horrible about what happened because all of the things that my mom planned was gone. The whole reason we were going to go to Florida was to see our family that we
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My Fathers Journey To America. The plane was taking off. Gravity pulled me lean on the back of the seat. Seeing the trees‚ roads‚ cars and buildings became more and more blurry in my sight‚ I felt my brain was blank. "Hey‚ I’m really going to leave tomorrow…" I called my best friend the night before I left. "Don’t forget to swim across the Pacific Ocean to visit me." She said after the long silence. Yes‚ for me at that time‚ America was truly just Hollywood and Disneyland on the other side of
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My Most Memorable Moment What is a memorable moment? It can be something that makes someone happy or sad. It is usually a big event that happens and you never forget it. My most memorable event was the time my father almost died from a brain aneurysm. This single event changed my life and how I feel about loved ones; it made me value the time I have with family. On December 10‚ 2003 my father almost died from a brain aneurysm. He came home from a trip to Santa Cruz with a really bad headache
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My most memorable event in school I emigrated from Taiwan to the U.S. when I was 7th grade to receive a better education. I was enrolled into Montserrat middle school when I migrated. Although I thought that My English level was good and fluent enough at the time; I got placed in an ELD (English Language Development) class. I soon earned my teacher’s (Ms. Kuwait) trust and validation in class. My most memorable event in school is the first day of my ELD class. I and my guardian
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can go see my favorite professional soccer team play which is FC Barcelona. I was so eager to go I could almost hear the sound of the ball swooshing through the air or it hitting the cleats of the player‚ but the most I could imagine is the crowd going wild and crying with joy as a goal is been scored. It was then in mid-July were my parents surprised me that we were going to Spain for a family vacation. As soon as I heard we were going to Spain I couldn’t believe it my heart sank
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Everyone wants to take a trip to an exotic place like; Australia‚ Brazil‚ or maybe even the Dominican Republic. Its just something that is on people’s minds because they want to travel somewhere besides what they have already seen. I took that exotic trip to the Dominican Republic and it was definitely life changing. It was a different experience compared to what I had seen in the United States. Everything there was so beautiful but it was also hard to see all the poverty in some parts of the Dominican
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One day my parents and extended family decided that we were going to Atlantis. I was very excited because‚ it was going to be my first time going to the Bahamas. One day I wanted to see what made Atlantis so fun. I looked up Atlantis on my computer and I saw this huge slide. I knew that if I could go down the slide I can do some many things like skydiving and rock climbing a mountain. A few days later we got on a plane and flew to the Bahamas. When the whole arrive in Atlantis I saw lots of pools
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was replaced with a sharp pain shooting from my foot‚ which was the result of sharp seashells on the beachfront. Prior to going to this beach in Cozumel‚ I have only visited local US beaches that are known tourist spots. This was in a foreign country‚ and I assume the beaches have not have not been manicured to make the sand free of sharp objects; and my foot was destined to step on the largest and pointiest ones. Once I reached the water and put on my scuba mask and submerged in the water I realized
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English 10 Mrs. Campbell February 21‚ 2014 My Adventure to Canada Have you ever seen one of the Seven Wonders of the World? Well I have and being able to go see one of the Seven Wonders of the World was an experience of a lifetime. I got the chance to visit Niagara Falls and had an amazing time with my family. Not only did I see Niagara Falls‚ but I was in a completely different country. Most people want to have excitement in their lives‚ something they will remember for a long time. Well
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Memorable Moments It didn’t take me much effort to decide on what to write about when the instructor announced the next assignment "three memorable events". This phrase was enough and those three events jumped immediately to my mind‚ that school trip to Petra in 2009 was un forgettable one‚ yet that incident when I lost my passport in De Gaulle airport Paris was terrifying and recently my oldest brother’s wedding back home in Jordan‚ was a real
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