The first person I interviewed was my mom. Her first job ever was at a bank‚ and got the job a week after she graduated high school. My mom’s original plan was to work for a year‚ and then go to college. She ended up not going to college and her employer offered her a full time position. She got promoted in different important positions throughout her 13 years at the bank. She worked in mortgage lending and ended up being an escrow officer. After my mom left her job at the bank she was a stay at
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Mission Trip Weather destruction hits hard some places more then others around the world. In Alpena where I live we rarely have any kind of major weather damage. On June 14‚ a group of 44 members from Grace Lutheran Church‚ as well as other churches in Alpena‚ drove 20 hours to Mayflower‚ Arkansas where a level 5 tornado had hit. I was one of these‚ along with my mom and one of my best friends Maddy. For six months we had prepared and fundraised. I did not want to go on this trip‚ but
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MWF My way of life You know how it all starts‚ we are little and our parents already have their dreams of who we going to be in the future. This happened to me. My mother was a huge fan of tennis and at her childhood time it was impossible to play her own. When I was born tennis become open to everybody and that’s how I started my tennis carrier. At five I was running around on the tennis court with racket that is bigger then I am. Well I can say for sure that I missed my childhood
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lots of commotion‚ its downfalls are the many criminal gang activity the streets of L.A are known to have. Growing up in a hostile environment everything I knew and was used to was the gang street life in L.A. Education did not become a priority the possibility of improvement for a better life never crossed my mind. I am the first generation child it was hard to adapt to the American way of living‚ despite been born here. I only gathered with Hispanic kids who were also the first generation of parents
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Soundtrack to my Life There are many songs that I enjoy listening to whether I’m sitting in a car‚ or walking to school. I always enjoy the fact that there are many genres and types of songs to choose from these days. There were many songs that which I choose were the most favorite and close ones to me‚ but out of all of them‚ I choose three that was based on my favorite and which topic was the most important to me. The first section that I choose was “Fighting” and the song that I represented
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I started my first year of college with my life prearranged. I had a ridiculous notion that everything was going to be a piece of cake. I was going to join different clubs‚ do lots of research‚ make the dean’s list‚ make my parents proud and attend as many parties as I could. However‚ now when I look back‚ I realized that I was too comfortable in my life. I thought I was ready to overcome every obstacle that was thrust upon me but I was sadly mistaken. College was a culture shock. I concluded that
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I struggled to come up with a time in my life where I could not be myself. I have had the same job for fourteen years‚ have been with the same person for more than fourteen years‚ and have had my friends for longer still. Trying to find a time that I can distinctly remember not being myself I have to go back a long time‚ probably around eighteen years. The more I thought about it‚ the more I could only recall freshmen year in high school as being a time where I was living two lives. I attended a
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I am a person that is weird and creates her own world I can say so passionate that what makes me unique. I grew up in a country that wasn’t noticed that much and was much going on there but even so I tried my best focusing on my studies that I can be here at the moment getting ready for college . As I grow up‚ I used to enjoy writing and creating things than doing anything else. Since I was little‚ I enjoy playing with Legos and collect puzzles and figuring it out‚ until now‚ I still collect puzzles
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The first life lesson I learned was to never take anything for granted‚ especially life. It is a miracle that I was born because my mom had a rare bone cancer that almost took her life at the age of thirteen. She had a twenty percent chance of surviving‚ beat the odds‚ defied her experimental treatment and gave birth to me. There was an eighty percent chance that I would not be alive today and that makes me appreciate everything in life. Osteogenic sarcoma was the rare bone cancer my mom was diagnosed
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Life as a minority isn’t easy because at the start I am already one step behind. Growing up my family didn’t have a lot of money. My parents decided that they wanted to give me the best education possible to them so they put me in a private school the majority of my life. During this time I learned to appreciate my education and to work as hard as I can. I often have many questions on my mind and I always want to find the answer. I am a great thinker because when problems arrive‚ I always think of
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