On the second day of school during my sophomore year‚ I realized how much Wahlert meant to me. It had become my home‚ the place where I felt like I belonged; school almost even seemed like a break from summer. Over the summer‚ I had become an empty shell and spent my time at the computer wasting the time away; the only interactions I had were with my family‚ and on rare occasion with my best friends‚ when we had sleepovers. To see the people I had missed over the summer was great. All of these things
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watched my mom run herself ragged to try and support us. She was finishing her college degree‚ while working two jobs and raising me. My parents had just gotten divorced and I was scared and sad and didn’t understand what was happening. My mom and I were incredibly tight on money‚ and things were terrifying. I was a ten year old worrying about my next meal. As girls wore hoodies that read “Hollister” and “Aeropostale‚” I was wearing mix-matched outfits we had found at goodwill. While my friends
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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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People are always talking about moments. Those split seconds of your life where you feel like nothing can touch you‚ like nothing can go wrong. But no one ever talks about what happens after those moments. When you come hurdling full speed back down to earth‚ and find yourself one again in reality‚ looking dazedly around and trying to figure how for that one moment everything could have been perfect‚ and how it could change so suddenly. I’ve had plenty of moments. And they were everything a moment
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told my mother and I about a surgery that could practically change my whole life. He had said that if I didn’t go through with with this surgery that in the future I could end up being paralyzed. Of course my mom pushed me to do this surgery‚ as all parents do. My eleven year old mind went everywhere thinking of every scenario I could think of. As soon as I got home I did what I usually did read than played some Wii sports resort‚ which may I say I’m pretty good at‚ and lastly playing my flute
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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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One of the worst injuries that has ever occurred to me was having my fingers burned by extremely hot water. It was a cold‚ dark day at 7:31pm‚ and it was just me‚ my older brother‚ Gideon‚ and my younger brother‚ Theodore. I was 9 years old‚ Theodore was 2 years old‚ and Gideon was 12 years old. Every day I would drink some hot tea‚ because I tended to be extremely sensitive to the cold. And when I say sensitive‚ I am talking about that if I was drinking regular temperature water‚ I would be shivering
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I held my breath to avoid the harsh taste that lodges deep into my lungs from the bus exhaustion. I walked onto the cold mustard colored bus and saw my friend Anna sitting on the rough piece of plastic they call a seat. She sat arms crossed shivering to the negative two degree wind chill‚ the only thing keeping her warm was a red ball of yarn that rested on top of a black woven beanie. I waved hello and sat adjacent to her to avert the temptation of conversation‚ we weren’t allowed to talk on the
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idea of failure. Throughout our live‚ these battles are fought‚ taking not only mental strength‚ but physical as well. Some of these battles are chosen‚ while the rest flank from behind. With this in mind‚ a story of victory must be told‚ on behalf of my Aunt‚ Joenell. Her battle took place in April‚ of 2009‚ she went to the Suttee Delta hospital‚ in Antioch California for a doctor’s visit‚ for fear that something was wrong‚ during this visit she informed her doctor that she felt a not on her left breast
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In the August before my sophomore year of high school‚ a challenge emerged. My dad had passed away. Of course you would read that and automatically think about how that would affect me in many ways. However no one‚ not even myself‚ was aware of the many challenges that went with this. Death was something new to me. I had never had to deal with someone close to me passing. I had experienced my friends losing a grandparent or a distant relative‚ but it had not affected me terribly much. I always considered
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