Life is full of risks. And not all risks are predictable. The first and the biggest crisis in my life happened a few days after the fifteenth birthday. I was diagnosed with a kind of cancer and took a year off from middle school to have chemotherapy after surgery. Fortunately‚ I was on the mend after hospitalizing for the first three months‚ so I received the outpatient treatment after that. Now it was time to go back to school. However‚ I had a lot of different thoughts running through my mind.
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My life philosophy has always been to impact the world and help people. Growing up in Haiti where more than half of the population live in extreme poverty and two out of three Haitians lives on less than US$2 per day according to the world food programme‚ I quickly realized how the people around me and my friends didn’t have the opportunity that I had in order to reach their potential and achieve their dream. Attending school‚ having a meal where many of the opportunities that many people were deprived
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is a form of relaxation but for me‚ I like to call it home. Ventura is a small county located in the southern part of the California and for the past twenty-two years it has been my sanctuary. The other two years of my life I spent in a smaller town called Irapuato‚ Guanajuato‚ Mexico. This was my birthplace and home to my parents until they made the decision of migrating directly to Ventura County. Within Irapuato City‚ there are small ranchos or ranches‚ located on the outskirts of town and at our
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was diagnosed with adhd before I can remember. So my learning disability had been stealing confidence from me bit by bit my whole life. My husband makes me confidant. It’s easier now. Until I moved in with his Mormon parents. I’m not going to lie I really just wanted them want them to like me. I am not Mormon I’m not religious at all actually. I am agnostic so I don’t think entirely that the Mormon religion is wrong. I just don’t know. My whole life for some reason I just thought that all people were
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high expectations from my family‚ friends‚ and the people I work with. They believe that from what I do‚ what I know‚ and who I am know that I can go somewhere and become someone. I come from a family where college is a rare chance only certain family members have gone to college. My family know I have what it takes to go to college and they are making sure I go by asking me where I want to go‚ what I want to do‚ and how I am going to get there. I am one of few kids in my entire family to have
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I used to live my life in fear. With every step I took‚ I felt like I was disappointing someone‚ somewhere‚ whether it be my family or some stranger I saw walking down the halls. My existence was one big failure‚ and I never really understood why I expected so much of myself. Society has a way of making one feel little. Advertising nowadays is spent entirely making the consumer feel incomplete without this new gadget‚ or without this brand of makeup. I feel like that mindset has carried over into
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As soon as the summer of 2015 ended‚ I was living in Colombia. I was used to spending summer with my family and friends in Colombia or traveling to the US to play golf tournaments or golf camps. But that summer was different. My parents told me I was spending the summer at USF in Tampa at “SuperCamp”. I read all about it on the internet and all it said was that it was a fun academic camp. I was not happy at all‚ but the decision was already made. I remember when I arrived to campus‚ there were
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money to help my mom‚ and help others to be happy. First be a Veterinarian is probably every kid dream‚ when you love animals. This dream starts when I was probably 5 years old and keep it on my mind until when I was 15 years old. I remember a program which was about a summer camp‚ in which many kids travel to other countries and they were little veterinarians. I always dreamed to be able to be in that summer camp but I was not able to realize that dream. For the other side I got my first dog when
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My family and I had just landed on Oahu. The sight was one to behold. Beautiful grass-covered mountain ranges and a clear blue sky. We had seen the other islands of Hawaii leading up to Oahu like Maui and the Big Island but none of them were like this. When my family and I had gotten off the plane we were given lei’s to welcome us to what was a foreign place. We immediately got our luggage from the conveyor belt and a rental car‚ a 2016 Toyota Highlander that was as black as the night. The air and
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lover. My kids always wanted a dog. I dug my heels in but eventually‚ they wore me down with chorus’ of “please can we get a dog?” Begrudgingly‚ I began looking for a dog. It was to be a Christmas present for my kids‚ an older dog‚ a trained dog. I knew that I did not have the patience for training and I knew that when kids say they will help; I knew exactly what that meant. I started looking for a free dog‚ a dog no one wanted. The first place I looked was the online bulletin board that my place
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