In eighth grade‚ I was hanging out with my group of friends in class and one of the people in my group was playing with these crazy filters. All my friends had this app called “Snapchat” but I had no idea that the app even existed. By the time‚ I came home from school I was begging my mom to let me have the app but she refused to let me get the app on my phone. I wanted to be like everyone else‚ but my mom wanted me to use social media safely. As time went on‚ Snapchat was growing and over time‚
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Have you ever had someone in your life that would talk and help you through a dreadful time in your life? Well I have and that someone that help me was my 5th grade teacher Mrs. Guillemet. Mrs.Guillemet helped me when My grandma past away‚ when I found out i was moving‚ and she helped make school better for me. Mrs. Guillemet helped me a lot in 5th grade when life was dreadful for me. Mrs. Guillemet helped me out when my grandma had open heart surgery and didn’t make it. That was a horrible time
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Nordic skiing has changed my life. When I was young I did not think I was capable of performing in such an intense sport. I saw women with such strength and power‚ gliding effortlessly across the snow. I wanted to be like them‚ but I lacked the confidence‚ and I was hesitant to leave my comfort zone. I wanted to stay in a corner of the world where there was no pressure and nothing was expected of me. I joined BSF when I finally realized that I would only feel pressure if I put it upon myself. Since
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Wrestling has always been a huge part of my life. When I was in the seventh grade‚ I decided that if I didn’t make the cheerleading team‚ I would join the wrestling team. I was a cheerleader for four years‚ and two of those four years I also managed the Medomak Middle School wrestling team. My father is the coach for the Medomak Valley High School and Pee-Wee wrestling teams‚ and he has been for quite a number of years. My younger sister Emily has been wrestling since she was 4 years old‚ so it has
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experienced quite a few times. This is how it all started. So it was a nice‚ cold day in Millbrae CA. I was in the library with my friends trying not to get as loud as we usually would be‚ so that we would not get kicked out. Eventually we did. While I was just hanging out‚ all of a sudden I get a weird phone call from my dad. I answered and it was quiet in the background and then my dad started to talk. He asked me what I was doing and I told him and then out of nowhere my dad said “ Shaina‚ your mom is
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present. Death touched my family about eight years ago. I still look back and try to remember. Even though my thoughts on the time are blurry on that day; I learned morals that shaped me to be the person that I am today. I wake up to the nagging and shrieking voice of my mother’s morning wake up call. I layed back in bed‚ thinking‚ how much I despised monday mornings. After about ten minutes‚ I sluggishly make my way into the kitchen. I make myself breakfast‚ and proceeded with my usual monday morning
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met this person not too ago preparing myself for high school‚ but my counselor Mrs. Nguyen was a major driving force in helping me become myself again. Without a counselor who was willing to be patient and assuring during my time of weakness‚ I would have certainly destroyed my high school career and potentially my future. Before meeting Mrs. Nguyen for the first time‚ my final year in middle school was a major decay compared to my previous years. I was struggling emotionally and mentally‚ feeling
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“We learn from failure‚ not from success! (Stoker) My first thoughts about English 1304 was disgust due to the fact that I was placed in a class that wasn’t even counted as a credit. But‚ I stuck with it because I believed that it was going to be an easy A and‚ I will exceed in it without any troubles. But‚ boy was I wrong about that‚ I was struggling week by week on assignments and papers that were due. What actually shocked me was my grade on my first English paper and‚ from then on I knew this
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My whole life‚ I was never introduced to change. I was always in the same school‚ same soccer team‚ and same house. But then‚ a gargantuan amount of change occurred in my life. I went to a school with the label of “new kid”. And I joined a whole new level of soccer. When I made the team‚ the weekend of‚ we had a game. We were driving towards the soccer field‚ and I kept on thinking about how excited I was to be playing with these girls I would be playing with for a while now. The day before
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Growing up all of my friends played football for school‚ and I was one of the only ones that never played. During 5th grade I tried it and found no enjoyment so I . I have gone since I was a kid and listened to how football is so important to them‚ how it’s their favorite activity in the world‚ and how I should go out for it. When they would say this I never truly understood why and so ignored it. My senior year I figured I would take a risk as go out for it. I didn’t know if it would pay off or
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