On September 3‚ my boyfriend and I attended the 38th Chicago Jazz Festival in Millennium Park. This was my first jazz concert. My boyfriend and I headed towards the Jay Pritzker Pavilion; its stage looked like a steel version of the Sydney Opera House. As we looked for a place to sit‚ I noticed that the audience’s demographics consisted of Indian‚ Asian‚ some African Americans‚ and Caucasians. We sat near the stage in the plastic orange seats because the grass area was extremely packed. However‚
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I had just turned 27. I woke up to my train car and like every time I wake up‚ I study my photos of Pripyats beauty before the tragic war.. My father walked in and said “Artyom‚ come with me to meet an old friend” I got up slowly but I new who he was talking about. My father was the general of the green station down here in the metro. He was a tall man who always wore a leather trench coat with a revolver on his right side‚but he always seemed cheerful. Most people liked him because he never asked
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this was my first jazz concert‚ I wasn’t sure was to expect. This was a new experience for me and my family. It was very different from the usual rock concerts that I had previously attended. The purpose of this concert was to give a kind of a homecoming
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My First Time Away From Home Leaving go to high school was my very first time away from home‚ and it took a lot of adjusting to a new surroundings. I didn’t have my mother or my grandmother right by my side anymore and I needed to become more independent on doing things on my own. Adjusting to a new city‚ community‚ and school was a challenge because I was used to being in my own city‚ with my old friends‚ at my old school. I often got homesick and wanted to go home‚ but I soon adjusted. Another
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1. Getting my first dog‚ Candy: One life altering experience for me was when I got my first dog‚ Candy. Dogs were and still are one of my favorite things ever. When I first got her‚ she was small‚ soft and golden- everything I ever wanted. She was always jumping around and barking and being the curious puppy she was. I vividly remember the feeling of her little claws on my knees when she would greet me and leave little harmless scratches on them. We were as happy as ever for a while‚ until
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The first time in my life that I ever experienced true anger and fear was in the sixth grade. A little before Thanksgiving Break‚ I was diagnosed with malignant melanoma‚ a type of skin cancer‚ in my lower back. I had a mole there that was removed earlier that year‚ and the test results on it had come back positive. I did not find out until later‚ but when my mom sat me down across from her to talk‚ I knew something was wrong. It was then that she told me what was going on‚ and I broke down in
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Malini Patel Mr. Moreau AP English Literature and Composition 5 October 2010 My Very First Driving Experience (Prompt #2) My car slows as it approaches a stoplight. I take this opportunity to allow my mind to become occupied with my surroundings: the bright fierce red of the traffic light‚ the brilliant blue sky with its distant clouds‚ and the mass of angry people due to the amount of traffic. The four corners of the intersection are filled with people who are preoccupied with their fast-paced
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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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My First Visit to New York City Few years before‚ I visited New York City for the first time‚ so before I went there‚ I studied a travel guide for a long time. My cousin told me New York City is a beautiful city‚ especially during the Christmas season. She said I would see Christmas decorations everywhere. Therefore‚ I said to myself that I had to visit the city during the Christmas season. My cousin lives in Long Island City‚ so when I left from there to go to downtown Manhattan‚ I took an MIA
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of students from 9th grade to 12th grade along with adult mentors and we build and compete with a robot in the FIRST Robotics Competition. As member of the team I help with the responsibility of getting the robot programmed in the 6 weeks we have to build it. In the past two season our team has been to the regional competition that is held at Lehigh University and last year for the first time we had won a district competition and after regionals we had qualified for the opportunity to go to the World
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