spend the summer with my aunt; perhaps it was my overwhelming curiosity or the fact that I love children. In any case I had agreed to live with a woman I had only met several times throughout my life‚ but really all I remember about her from those short visits were her red toes and the way she spent money. She would visit about every four years and every visit she would always spend a pretty penny on my sister and me. I‚ of course‚ was not used to spending any amount of money because my parents were
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WA3/Ways of Knowing Rezan Kurteva ENC 101 My Summers in Macedonia As a child I had the privilege to spend my summer breaks in Macedonia. Both of my parents were born and raised in Macedonia‚ and they came to live in the United States prior to my birth. Macedonia was originally part of Yugoslavia‚ which was separated during the war in 1990. The food is very different from American food. I also enjoyed listening to the music throughout the country
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I think summer vacation is very important to people all over the world. It gives them the chance for seeing new places‚ family gathering and have a good time and enjoys their selves. We use to travel in vacations. This year my family decided to spend our summer vacation in Cairo. I was very happy and I went to pack up my bags to be ready. While packing I was thinking of the new places that I’m going to see‚ I decided that our first place to visit must be the pyramids. On the fourth day of our trip
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forget the summers when my sisters and I spent the whole summer with our grandparents. Grandpa Jerry Trotter and Granny Velma Trotter. My grandparents live in McNab‚ Arkansas in the country on large acres of land outside of Fulton‚ Arkansas. We had many grand adventures and loads of fun the summer visits even though we were in the country. One of my adventures involved learning how to ride and drive a 4-wheeler that belonged to Grandpa Jerry. It was at the fastest bike I have been on in my life. The
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After a hard school year we have a wonderful time for our plesure and relaxing. One of the summer months i visited bright and hospitable country Vietnam !!! I was inspired of my travelling into another summer country ! Me and my family were in two cities Xo Chi Min and Nha Chang . The climate there for us were unaccustomed : very wet and hot ‚like in Turkish bath-house ! Vietnamese people are very kindfull ‚ pretty ‚ with sincere smiles !!! I was really defeated about there amazing patience and
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Mrs. Alvarez was raised in Dominican Republic‚ where the mother tongue is Spanish‚ but soon‚ she got enrolled in a (probably private) school‚ where she also learned English. Even though the learning of a new language is better at early ages‚ it certainly has consequences in us. Julia started mixing words in both languages (what we call Spanglish)‚ but not only in her informal conversations with friends and family‚ but in school‚ what gave her problems with her professor. She also found herself talking
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In the summer of "99 I had the chance to visit a friend that lives in Sao Paulo‚ Brazil. My friend from Brazil‚ Ana Radeau‚ had come to my town the previous summer and spent a semester at my high school. I had no idea of what to expect when I got there because Brazil is such a diverse country with the rainforest‚ along hundreds of miles of beach‚ and also with some of the biggest cities in the world‚ Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. But the picture I had in my mind was completely different from what
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guitar were shoved at my feet was not my idea of a fun way to spend nine o’clock on a Friday morning! I was‚ however‚ extremely excited about arriving in Sheffield and our ‘battle of the bands’ competition that lay in the weekend ahead of us. We had reached the national final and were somewhat astonished at how far we had gotten. After finally arriving at Doncaster train station (our route had been changed as a result of the serious flooding surrounding our destination) with my other bandmates and
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my summer vacation confrontation | The act of confronting or the state of being confronted‚ especially a meeting face to face.Discord or a clash of opinions and ideas: an age of ideological confrontation. | congenial | Pleasant because of a personality‚ qualities‚ or interests that are similar to one’s own.Pleasant or agreeable because suited to one’s taste or inclination. | zap | To kill‚ destroy‚ hit something/someone | Zeal | It is great enthusiasm especially in connection with work
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fight any fight‚ though the revolution is just a convenient one. In her first stories‚ Minerva constantly fights with her father. She says‚ "I has the one always standing up to him." (alvarez 12) She is talking about her father. Everything is a constant argument with her‚ and she never lets up‚ always finding new angles until she achieves her goals. When she is a loyal citizen in her innocence‚ she "defended Trujillo"(alvarez 18) even before Sinita had finished her stories. Her loyalty begins to ever
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