very difficult for me. I knew hardly any English and there were very few Chinese-speaking students there. I was lonely. Terribly lonely. I cried a lot when by myself in my room. But I made it through. It took me five years‚ but I made it through. Many years later‚ after I was established and married with children of my own‚ I sent for my parents. Anonymous I left Cuba when I was 17 years old. These guys drove into our village and told us to get into the truck. They said‚ “We need you to
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My family and I lived in a cozy nest that kept us warm throughout the cold days‚ but the nest was becoming crowded with all my growing sisters and brothers. One afternoon‚ while mother went out searching for food‚ we kids were a bit squished‚ and got into a little fight. Apparently I was the unfortunate one who got shoved out of the nest. Little did I know what an adventure the day would become. I had never been out of the nest. Mother had always warned us that it was dangerous in the outside world
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like. When my sister started junior high is when I started to see more of the social media. When I was in fifth grade my sister just started junior high. She got into MySpace and I tried my hardest to resist getting an account. I always hated following trends when it came to social media things like that. The next year we got cell phones and she was huge on the texting. She had to get unlimited because she was running up the bill. I on the other hand didn’t even have texting enabled on my phone. I
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experience of my life happened‚ I was about ten. I went to my native place which is called Madurai to spend my summer vacation. The way to the city was too long‚ but it was very amazing to listen birds’ songs‚ to notice sunrise behind mountains‚ to watch awakening of nature and the lifestyle of hardworking people in the field. When I reached there‚ my grandparents became very happy to see me. The next day‚ my grandparents were going to work in the field. I wanted to go there with them. They saw my eagerness
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in a better place. Though nothing we did could be called an achievement‚ it was the first time we fully bore the consequences of our behavior‚ and took the responsibility. Thus it was not surprising that I often found myself the only one to clean up my university dormitory which looked no
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Life for serfs is very very very hard. I have to get up each morning at noon‚ eat a long breakfast of homemade bread and ale and then I’m off to the fields for a short day of work. We have to plants and harvest them at least one good crop a year or we will starve in the winter. We always plant and harvest at least ten million crops each year. After working all day‚ I sometimes stop in the village to get money before heading home to have my yummy dinner!!! then to bed I got to bed. Darla gets up
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A Day in My Life(Part2) Well last time I left off when I walked into my math class. I walk in on normal bases and then we have to start our (POD) problem of the day. After this we go over the POD and usually it is something that we have learned during the school year so far. So next up what happens is that we start to go over what we did homework the night before. Which is something that we have a lesson on the day before? So after that the teacher tells us to take out our dreaded textbooks and
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adult suffrage soon after Independence. We also reposed faith in the potential of women in our public life. Today our local bodies have over a million women representatives. This is more than the number of elected women representatives in the entire rest of the world put together. But‚ this momentous action for political empowerment has not been carried over into many other spheres of our nation’s life. Our record in female literacy is far from satisfactory as the last Census recording only 54% female
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Music in my life Can you think of a day without music? We can hear music everywhere: in the streets and at home‚ over the radio and on TV‚ in the shops and in the parks. People all over the world are fond of music. They listen to music‚ they dance to music‚ they learn to play musical instruments. But what is music? Specialists explain that music isn’t only a combination of pleasant sounds. There are a lot of different kinds of music. Some of them appeared long ago‚ and some are modern. For
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eyes fell on the long bag that the stranger was carrying. ’It’s exactly what you think it is‚’ said the new arrival. ’I did not come here to humiliate or to provoke the man who has become a legend. I 5 would simply like to prove that‚ after all my years of practice‚ I have managed to reach perfection.’ Tetsuya made as if to resume his work: he was just putting the legs on a table. ’A man who served as an example for a whole generation cannot just disappear as you did‚’ the stranger went on. ’I
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