Trauma It was December 15‚ 2007‚ My daughter’s birthday. I was stuck in afghanistan fighting a war. We were patrolling through a town heading back toward our extraction point. I was travelling with the commanding officer‚ and 4 others we walked for several miles and it was scorching hot. i was just ready to get back to base to get to some food. we hopped over a small wall heading down a road that lead to an abandoned town‚ machine-gun fire started up‚ echoing all around me. The thing about being
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to be a sheep being taken to a slaughter house.” Her older sister underwent the atrocious process a year before she did‚ so she knew exactly what was going to happen to her. It all happened 33 years ago‚ and it left a scar within her‚ that to this day‚ still haunts her. It was all performed by women who appeared to be exceptionally amateurish‚ “I felt that their only mission in life was to give me and the other girls a scare of a lifetime”‚ she said. She laid down as they took a piece of cloth‚
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My First Car My first car was a bit of a roller coaster‚ I had just learned to drive the year before and now it was time for me to have my own car. I would say the excitement I felt was overwhelming but even that might understate it just a little. The search began on a Sunday morning we went to several different dealerships‚ in search of the right mix of economy and style. Well‚ to be honest my mom was mostly interested in the economy part. The first dealership we went the car salesman seemed
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My Snow Day When I was younger‚ I would maybe in the 3rd grade‚ one day we had a snow day from school my parents took my siblings and I to the hill to sled. My dad took me to the very top of the hill and had me scared out of my mind. I saw a lot of adults going down with no problem till they hit the bottom then ended up flipping over. So I sat back and watched some kids my age try and it at first they were crying a little bit saying the hill went too far down. Well some of the parents would get
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On last week’s first meeting we had the following incidents occur: 1) Zanna Prentiss was video recording students with her phone to post on her Snap Chat account. I kindly asked her to delete and not post the video. She then was being disrespectful for the rest of the meeting and towards the final minutes left the room with Katie Walkama. When the meeting finished both of them and Josh Bent came back into the room‚ and asked me to speak with them outside of the room to discuss about what had happened
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My First Day at A University of Khon Kaen Have you ever been so excited that your heart can’t stop beaten? That’s show I was on my my first day at the Khon Kaen University. I was very excited‚ but also I was frightened. I was about to meet people who were going to be with me for four years. I kept asking myself; “would they be nice?” That morning I woke up very early but arrived at the faculty late because I don’t know the schedule of the transport in the university; my body was petrified. I could
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Reflection about my first year of college. After ending this first year of college I experienced a lot of things and I will remember most of them for the rest of my life. I have experienced some good things and some others that have not been that good‚ but probably that is part of college and being away from home. Obviously‚ I would like to have changed some of those‚ but some others I would not have changed. I am going to start talking about all the things I would like to have change. During
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I remember the few days before my first class how I was nervous and paranoid about the workload that is psychologically attached to the Applied Science program.. Entering UBC‚ I only knew one other person going into the applied science program‚ so I felt alone wanting to go back to my hometown where all my friends were. However‚ on my first day at UBC on Imagine Day my entire orientation group was made up first year engineers just like me. Each and everyone of them were feeling nervous‚ however‚
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the exhilarating sound of my first shot‚ and believe it or not I had actually hit something. It all started one morning in 1868 when I was home alone. I was only 8 years old‚ my father was dead and there was no one to hunt for the family. After an exciting experience as a young girl i went on to perform in carnivals and inspire other young girls to do great things. While sitting by the fireplace I noticed my father’s old Kentucky rifle just sitting on the mantle‚ in my head I put together that if
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‘My first week at university’ The much anticipated day had arrived‚ the beginning of the first week of an experience that had been in the back of my mind for many years never really believing it would happen for one reason or another. I begin university life as a mature student having left school at the tender age of 16 to pursue a career in the Army and go on to complete eight years of service. During this time I was involved in nearly every modern day conflict that many are made aware of through
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