It was the morning of move in day. I said goodbye to my home and headed out. I passed the local shopping market and my high school where I enjoyed a fun four years. As I headed to Norman I realized I was leaving everything I had ever known. All my life has consisted of living in the same house‚ going to school with the same kids‚ and going to the same supermarkets and restaurants. While I’d like to say I have developed a good idea of the world around me by visiting so many cities around the
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since 7th grade and were friends since then. Before that no one talked to him and Angel changed his life and would do anything for him to help out. They all met at a bar. Angel and Daniel were going because it has been only two days since Angel’s wife left him and Daniel wanted to help him get over her but he can’t. John is there because it has been only one day since he found out his mom has cancer. John slowly approached them and took a seat and said “One bottle of Tecate please.” “Ok” said the
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a couple days after my birthday; Feb.2; I went home for a school vacation. It was Presidents Break actually. When I got off the bus for transportation‚ I was rushed to the emergency room. A couple days later I was told I had a tumor. Have you ever realized something’s wrong with you but you couldn’t quite figure out what exactly? Twice in the past four years I’ve struggled with an illness that was challenging to fight. But the struggle made me a better person and look at life differently. “Can
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Tears poured down my face. The tears won’t stop I thought they would never stop. I laid there at night wishing someone would know. Anyone. Someone. But no one ever knew the truth because I didn’t know where they would send me‚ or what would happen to me. Then my alarm clock blared reminding that I had to go to school. I didn’t even sleep at all. But it’s been like that for days. It’s 6 AM time for school. Great‚ another day of pretending like everything’s okay. I put on a bright smile and pretend
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not have a cure. Luckily‚ I was spared the memory of being diagnosed‚ but I often wonder what it would be like if I had been diagnosed later in life. I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes‚ an autoimmune disease that affects the body’s ability to manufacture a hormone called insulin. I have to prick my finger four times a day to get a blood sample to test my blood sugar‚ which wasn’t easy as a toddler at first‚ but eventually I became used to it. From the time I was two till when I was five‚ I had
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the early summer heat with absolute admiration as I watch my mom walk across the stage. Like thousands of others across the United States‚ I wait with the hundreds of other family members waiting to honor their survivors at Relay for Life as they make their way to the microphone to proudly state their names. When I was just a month old‚ my mother became very ill. After days of being sick‚ she was finally rushed to the emergency room in my small town and from there she was sent to the Medical Center
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At a very young age I learned I was only good at a very select number of things. I failed miserably at soccer‚ and my experience on the kindergarten basketball team was nothing short of catastrophic. I was far from the avid reader I am today and have needed a tutor in math since I learned how to multiply. It wasn’t that I was particularly bad at all of these things‚ but I used to be so remarkably unambitious that I couldn’t bring myself to commit to anything long enough to become good at it. That
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Growing up‚ my family and I were on and off church goers. In my younger years we went every Sunday‚ but as time passed‚ we seemed to go less and less. Though I no longer attended church‚ I still believed in God. I devoted my life to the lord at the age of seven‚ while attending a youth camp in Michigan designed to bring young hearts to the lord. I participated in the camp for several years‚ but as I got older‚ I wanted the summers to play sports and socialize with my friends. So I stopped going.
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game to me. Soccer has been consuming my time‚ thoughts‚ and body since my parents signed me up for small-time recreational soccer twelve years ago that developed into extremely competitive travel soccer. They‚ perhaps unknowingly‚ threw me headlong into a life of traveling countless miles‚ long nights of practice‚ and an unforgettable amount of tears‚ sweat‚ and bloodshed. All which persisted over the course of my extensive soccer career. Before you judge my parents for their oppressiveness‚ hear
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the next level of becoming an independent individual. More opportunities that can change your life forever. Everyone goes to college‚ because they want that degree to have a good job that makes them money. For me‚ college brings me a chance of change. I never saw myself trying my best in college. I guess it could be of that fact I don’t have much confidence in myself. This is my first year of college‚ my second semester. The most successful I ever felt was taking Personal Growth 140. That class helped
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