A few days after I went home with Phoebe‚ I ended up getting sick and my parents sent me to a hospital. I was trapped in that hospital for about a month with nothing to really do. You know what was funny though? The days practically flew by‚ right out of the window. Before I knew it‚ half a month had passed. I was slowly getting back my strength and everything else as well. I made sure I asked the nurse‚ who was taking care of me‚ to bring me malted milk. She was very kind to me‚ and chatty in a
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Blue collar Kerrigan home‚ is filled with love as well as pride for their modest lifestyle‚ but their happiness is threatened when developers attempt the compulsory acquisition of their house to expand the neighbouring Melbourne Airport. 3 high view crescent‚ Coolaroo – not aesthetically pleasing ‘eyesore’ opening shot shows sense of pride (satire) Despite all this‚ sweet-natured family patriarch Darryl (Michael Caton) believes that he lives in the lap of luxury. Blissfully unaware of his family’s
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Looking outside the window inside the clay house I was living in at the time‚ my eyes could only picture the dullness of the outdoors; the view made me feel uneventful to hang out with my cousin climbing 30-foot mahogany trees or taking a hike up elevated land terrain to swim near the pristine waterfalls. I instead remembered that I packed something better in my luggage. Once I unpacked‚ I could finally see my boredom disappear. The PlayStation was immediately set up on the television set and right
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pick-up my mom drove. My mom‚ my sisters and I were on our way home to Colorado from visiting our grandparents in Idaho. The roads were iced over with sheer thin black ice causing my mom to drive very carefully. Mom seemed to know something bad was going to happen as she calmly asked me and my sisters if our seat belts were buckled. She said it was just in case something were to happen. As we made our way through the canyon‚ meanwhile we were becoming more comfortable with our situation. My mom suddenly
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of a nursing home. I hear the sounds of wheel chairs and walkers scraping against the hard wood surface. As I walk to station one‚ I stop by the break room to store my food. The room is full of people charting the prior shift. Walking out of the room‚ I continue to station one. Finding the cork board with the neon green paper‚ I see what hall I am working. There is only my name and one other on spring hall. I know it is going to be a rough night; but at the end‚ I will remember my goal‚ which is
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It was my first time away from home and family. I was five years old at the time and I was staying at my granny’s house. The daytime was always great with Granny. We would run around the garden and play with the dog. In the summer we would listen to the lone cow’s moo in the field. When we heard it we would fall to the ground laughing in the bright‚ dazzling sun. I had never slept at Granny’s house before but I did always stay for tea. There was always a smell coming from Granny’s marvellous
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back. Then the slave master walked in the house he yelled‚ “Why are you just sitting there? Get to work!” I sat up and walked to the fields. There were five other slaves there already. I lived on a cotton plantation in Mississippi and it had been my dream to make it to the free states. We worked until night then went to the slave house. We had a good master who gave us a slave house with beds all
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My Sister‚ My Friend‚ and My Mentor Every January brings a horrendous memory for my family and myself. January being the month‚ in which my sister passed away‚ unexpectedly taken from our lives leaving behind the heart broken‚ chaotic‚ and depressed husband‚ parents‚ and family members. No to mention‚ the care‚ love‚ and tenderness that this new born child would be in desperate need of‚ where would one begin to manage such a tragedy‚ to pick up the pieces left and go on to love and care again
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courage and strength‚ and celebrated for their bold exploits." In my personal view a hero can be anyone of who you could relate to‚ and also more importantly stands up for what they believe. Does everyone have a hero? I don’t know but all I could say is that I do. And she is not found in a comic book or in the TV she is found right here at this little warm place that I call home. Who could this hero be? It’s my mom‚ Lucia Espinal. She is my hero because she works hard‚ is a family woman‚ and more importantly
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small years old‚ dancing around the house‚ watching "The Power Puff Girls" and wanting‚ ever so badly‚ to be a little superhero. One day‚ my mother scooped me up in her arms‚ breaking my concentration of crime fighting little girls‚ to take a trip to the pound. I was only three so as my small mind wondered‚ I still couldn’t grasp the idea of what a pound was. Still‚ my loving mother would not speak a word of what the "pound" was. I remember toddling through the smelly place of animals big and small thinking
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