As a freshman on varsity soccer‚ I set my expectations high for myself. That’s why I was so disappointed with my soccer abilities when I was benched several games. So‚ I made myself work over the winter and summer to have some playing time on varsity. Every Sunday‚ my parents would go wash clothes at the laundromat and I would cross the street to my local YMCA and practice outside by myself. No matter what the weather was I’d be out there. I would set up tires in front of the goal and shoot through
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to anyone around me and I felt completely alone. The doctors treating me were some of the first white people I had ever interacted with and my family acted like I was a totally different person. No one knew how to talk to the girl with cancer‚ and if they did talk to me‚ it was about how God the Almighty was going to heal me‚ which I thought (still think) was a joke. I didn’t want their pity or prayers‚ I just wanted them to treat me like the girl they knew just two weeks
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Once upon a time I lived a semi normal life. The last day I lived that life was Thanksgiving of 2002. The people that made up my semi normal life was Papa‚ Nannie‚ Mom‚ Aunt Jodi‚ and me. As you may of concluded it was Thanksgiving‚ but this one wasn’t like the rest. We were going to Chicago to my Aunt Jackie and Uncle John’s house to have Thanksgiving dinner. The thing is we would of had dinner at Nannie and Papa’s‚ but a little less than a year before Papa was diagnosed with lung cancer. Lung
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My parents and I were getting ready to leave after a long night waiting for results when the doctor came in and told me the scariest thing I have ever heard in my life. He said that if I had landed and inch and a half more forward on my neck then I would have been paralyzed and in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. When I was in first grade at Morris Brandon Elementary School‚ something very bad happened to me. I was jumping on my trampoline that my sister had gotten 4 days before this for her
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Social media has changed the way we live in many ways. It has changed everything from the way we communicate with each other to where we get our news from. It happened so fast that people hardly realized just how much their lives had changed. Personal and professional communities are now intertwined and within arm’s reach and our once small social and work networks have now expanded to proportions that were once unimaginable. Just like in any revolution or period of expansion‚ there are many positive
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Through out my life I have always been an average student‚ never excelling in anything particular due to lack of enthusiasm. I would always get good test grades but neglect asigned projects and papers. I was satisfied getting by every year with a barely passing grade and continuing on. Every now and then I would get a project that would peak my intrest and do well on it surprising my peers and teachers‚ but that was it‚ it was a rare and non-consistent action. With each passing year my eagerness
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Hi! How have you been? I feel like we have not talked in forever‚ and I wanted to catch up. I decided to tryout for lacrosse at Mercy and I made it‚ (Jv of course) but Alexa and Ash tried out too and made JV. Mia also tried out and she made both Jv and Varsity. I was wondering did your daughters decide to try out for lacrosse? Speaking of Mia‚ we have become really close friends this year which is awesome‚ and of course I have made a ton of new friends because I am outgoing (like I’ve always been)
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"Can you guys come in the dining room for a minute?" As my face turns reddish and my stomach feelings like it is turning inside out‚ my stomach has never felt the way it felt that day? On just a day like no other I could not even believe that this had happened. That just a few words could have such a strong meaning‚ these words felt as if the world had been crashing all at once. This had felt like a nightmare‚ it stills feels like one to till this day‚ and I just have not woken up from it. I tell
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that ran though my body and heart was indescribable‚ loneliness‚ emptiness having the thought in my mind of never seeing my great uncle again made me ache. His passing was very unfortunate. No amount of hugs and kisses could make up for this loss of life. Having him being an inspiration to me‚ I now feel like I am lost. I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for him. I was so very grateful when he gave me my second horse‚ Annie. Annie and I have managed to go very far together‚ competitions‚ pony
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dirty. For example‚ when I was younger my mother would take me to her hula classes. I would usually join in when they start to do the warm ups. Then around the age 7 my mother took me to my first official hula class. That’s when I started to learn how to dance hula and learn more about my culture. So I consider this to be my girl side because this involves a lot of smiling‚ gracefulness‚ beauty‚ and a little sexiness. You’re basically using your eyes and facial expression to capture your audience’s
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