My family is extremely poor‚ living paycheck to paycheck and off of food stamps. My father is a construction worker/contractor who emigrated from Communist Bulgaria after the fall of the Iron Curtain‚ while my mother is a stay-at-home housewife with no higher education. As I grew older and more capable‚ naturally I was expected to help contribute in some way. This led to me having to constantly work and seek jobs from as early as 13 years old (typically babysitting or paper-route type jobs at this
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I have noticed myself being constantly pessimistic‚ expecting the worst and having thought of what if I wasn’t here‚ in this world‚ in this moment. No one ever diagnosed me with depression‚ I just assumed I was; having suicidal thoughts‚ self-harming myself‚ being distant from my family and friends‚ and always forgetting to eat. It got to the point where I just did what people told me to do‚ since I never knew what I wanted to do. The relationships I had with my family is not the dictionary normal
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As a freshman in college I was aware of the fact that I would encounter alcohol at some point. I always told myself that drinking was not something I ever wanted to do. My grandfather was an alcoholic and I had seen what it had done to him and his family. However‚ I got around a group of people whom I called my friends. Before I knew it I was pressured to drink and ended up giving in my second semester of freshman year. I only drank casually that second semester. But when the fall came around that
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Paula: I feel that although these attempts at reaching out to you have been futile‚ I want you to know how I feel without any expectation that you respond. Firstly‚ I am deeply saddened that we have not been able to talk‚ and attempt to have some dialogue with the hope of closure and peace for both of us. I understand why this would be difficult for you given how our relationship ended‚ and I take responsibility for this. I acted out of hurt‚ anger‚ and I dug my feet in without also considering
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During more than half of my seventh grade year I caught a virus.Which made me weak and sent me to the hospital for a month I did not go back to school right away. During that time I fell behind in school and because my grades dropped significantly. This was not going to make me end the year off with bad grades because I studied hard to end the year off with good grades. After I came out of the hospital. This motivated me to work twice as hard and to catch up with my classmates. The second time
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Assignment: Write a story with the character‚ setting‚ time period‚ and situation that you’ve chosen. The character that you’ve chosen should be the main character‚ but isn’t necessarily the ONLY character in the story. Likewise‚ most of the conversation will take place in the setting that you’ve chosen‚ but you can include other settings or elaborate on the setting that you have chosen (breaking it into several smaller settings‚ for example). The situation or challenge that you’ve chosen may involve
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Service Learning Report The very first day that I went to Taft to cadet teach I was very nervous. I was nervous to leave the high school‚ to get in my car and drive to Taft. I was terrified to park and walk in. I thought to myself “Where am I going to park?”‚”Do we go to the front office first?”‚”What if they do not like us?” I had all of these questions running through my head. So we parked at Taft and we walking in with the rest of the group. It was weird waiting for the doors to unlock‚ but as
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It was in the middle of July when we got the email that my Uncle had been diagnosed with cancer. When we got to his house he looked ok but he said he was in pain. Once we went to the hospital he had to go in to chemotherapy and radiation. One day when we went to the hospital we learned that he did not have enough white blood cells at the moment due to the treatments. He had to wait for a few days and during those days he was in pain. Steven was having troubles with eating so that started to become
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At the age of seven I enter prison‚ my life took a different direction at a young age where I was surrounded by people I didn’t know and faces I never recognize or even known existed. That was the day I came to America‚ imagine being taken away from the one place you called home to another dimension where people spoke a complete different language from the one you knew since birth. The angry and confused‚ I felt was intense‚ trying to figure out where I belong in such a huge place without actually
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" Hey kids we need to talk about something‚" mom says. My brother‚ and I look at each other strangely. Ethan asked "what do you need to talk to us about mom?" Divorce the legal dissolution of a marriage. This is what happened to my parents in August of 2009 they got divorced. It was a very big challenge for me to face. At first it was just a separation which happened in 2007 then slowly turned into a divorce. I was young so I did not understand a lot of it. After the divorce I had to change
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