Growing up in Hawaii the ocean or the pool was the place I felt most comfortable. My dad is a big reason why I love the water and being so active. He signed me up on the Kona Dolphins swim team when I was ten years old. I immediately fell in love. I loved being able to push myself to swim faster and continuing to beat my fastest times. My coach saw potential in me and continued to push me to become a faster swimmer. But‚ as I got older and entered middle school‚ I grew apart from the sport and desired
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I love Buckeye Lake. It is where I live‚ where I raised my family‚ the home of my business‚ and it is the only place I want to live. Unfortunately‚ Buckeye Lake is going through a trying time. The low water level‚ construction‚ and lack of communication‚ impacts us all. My feelings during this past (lake-less) year have finally settled down to a point where I can express my thoughts on a personal level regarding the lake situation. To the residents of West and North Banks‚ I wish to express
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from the emotional response I experienced the first time I had been invited to join a friend for a church-led mission trip. That time‚ it had been my friend Morgan who had issued the invitation‚ and although the thought of spending a couple of
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What is your favorite sport? Whatever it is dwell on it‚ love it‚ know the sport like a woman/man you love. Pay attention to every detail of it.why do i say that is because people will tell you that you have been eating health for two weeks now you deserve a treat. The hardest one is actually doing it or staying on it‚ but the person who will tell you the most to is yourself. Ok I will tell you about my sport is not sport you just don’t walk on and be the best at. If you are trying to become one
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It all started on the first day of Night School. I was the first student to walk into the classroom‚ excited for a fun and interesting semester I was eager to meet my new classmates as well as to make new friends in night school. All was going well that night until Ms. Easton my night school English teacher began to speak to us about the ISU. She began by telling the class to forget about what we previously thought an ISU s for English class was. That was not what I was expecting. Earlier‚ that
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My heart won’t stop racing‚ I don’t know why and‚ My eyesight starting to fade away slowly like I had glaucoma. All the surrounding noise around me by the crowd had me going deaf‚ then I started to sweat from all the pressure around me like a morning workout. I was zoning out of nowhere‚ and then I started to realize I was nervous as heck. The crowd started to go wild when the announcers started to announce the starting
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For my senior project‚ I made books with my first grader girls‚ focusing on fostering both increased self esteem and positive feelings about being a girl. Each page tackled a different prompt: things they liked about themselves‚ a woman they admire‚ things the girls liked about each other‚ a job they thought would be hard to a girl to have‚ the best part of being a girl‚ what it means to be a girl‚ and that they’re strong. I tried to give the girls as much freedom as I could in answering each prompt
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They were all excited that we had control of this game‚ and that I hit my first homerun.” After the game‚ I got in the car with Jack and his mom‚ Margi. We started talking about my game‚ and how it was awesome that I hit a home run. We stopped to eat at a Subway‚ and that is where I called my parents. “Hi Luke‚” said my mom
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As I stepped through the doors of high school on the first day of school‚ I had little to no care about two things. I didn’t care about how weak my muscles were and I certainly didn’t care enough to do my homework right when I got home. It is December now and I care a whole lot more than I originally did. I took longer in the morning or I’d spend 15 minutes before I go to bed to pick to pick out my outfits‚ I’d cram before exams or quizzes‚ I’d pay attention more in class and procrastinate less after
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I Believe in Animal Love I was almost labeled a hamster killer. The first pets i got were dwarf hamsters. I went to petsmart with my mom and picked out two hamsters that were supposedly both girls‚ but one ended up being a boy. One’s name was Caesar and the other Felipe. They weren’t always the nicest‚ but that didn’t make me love them any less. There was this one time that both of my dwarf hamster’s got out while i was at school. My mom told me when i got home that she closed the door to my bedroom
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