into me like a needle; It hurt. It stung . I couldn’t hold the tears back anymore. Those two cobras changed my life. It was recess time‚ and I was playing on the playground like any other kid would do. Then came the cobras‚ slithering towards me like I was the prey; the tiny little mouse that had no strength. "You’re a maid‚" they exclaimed. "You don’t belong here!" The two pushed me down‚ my body landing
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and things I don’t. This year I wrote two different narratives‚ and I want to see if my writing has improved over time and look at the things I need to work on. My Narrative 2 was about being inducted into N.J.H.S. and what that experience was like. My Vocabu-Lit narrative was about my brother‚ my dad and I going to Miami for the weekend. There are a few things that I definitely need to improve‚ but some things I still do the same. In my narrative from the beginning of the school year‚ I did use some
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freshman year I turned a paper with a time frame of two weeks into one night. At this moment I realized that procrastination was not only the killer of my grade‚ but also my dreams. Dreams like having a four point and going to Harvard. Now I did not procrastinate because I was lazy‚ but rather because I did not know where to start. I was just like anyone else‚ I wanted to have the best start so in the long run I would not have as much work. The problem is‚ the word “best” can be elusive because one always
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handful of black people in my small town. I was isolated‚ silenced. I observed a warped blue-eyed and fair-skinned version of the world that even television and films supported. They had a way of making the largest and most culturally rich cities seem as ethnically and socially uniform as my own town. Luckily‚ it fueled my introspection and creativity. I imagined countless scenarios with heroines that could look like me. Earning an undergraduate degree in Psychology reinforced my understanding of people’s
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As a child growing up friends are everything. Your best friend is the one you share all your secrets with and trust them not to tell anyone. They are the one who knows everything about you and stands by your side through everything. For some‚ best friends may change frequently‚ but that wasn’t the case of Michelle and I. That was the type of friend Michelle was. We had been friends since the first grade and shared everything. We never kept secrets from one another and more importantly‚ we never
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their careers‚ yet later become prominent figures. Pieter Bruegel was a Flemish artist who revolutionize the Northern Renaissance in the 1500’s. He led a life of complexity‚ especially during the times of religious and political fighting. He made much advancement during his age by painting peasants and landscapes; this was the first time in history in which this had been done. Bruegel’s quiet nature has been described by friends in their writings and is also evident in his artwork. Bruegel’s
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I was an average kid‚ I thought my life was similar to many other people. I saw my family as loving and perfect‚ but as I got older I saw that things weren’t as thought they were. I realized that my family struggled a lot. I was faced with many obstacles in my life growing up but I knew that it wouldn’t always be like this. I am the middle child between my two sisters. Growing up I was lucky to have my family always supporting me‚ we’ve always been close. When my sister got into college‚ we never
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thirteen years old‚ my mind was on frogs—dead frogs‚ to be specific. The only criteria that a frog had to meet in order to even slightly seize my interest was that it had to be dead. Several summer days were filled with me scouring the inside my pool’s filter‚ desperately searching for unfortunate souls that had met a watery end. Any specimens found would be placed under the knife of my beginner’s-level dissection kit. I took this fascination as a sign that a career in pathology was in my future. However
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It happened on September of 2014‚ the year that changed my life forever. I moved from Honduras to United States. From a small country to one of the biggest countries in the world. It was‚ still is‚ a different environment from living in a big city to a “small” city in the south of the United States. I left all my friends‚ family‚ and college studies. I left everything behind. It all happened so fast‚ my mother told my brother‚ Samuel‚ and I‚ “Would you like live in the United States?” The answer
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and was actually having fun in every one of my classes. I had felt like nothing could stop me from having a fantastic year. But there was this girl I really liked and was so confident in myself I set a date where I would talk to her and try to hang out. When the day came I had chills for every period before my class with her. I just thought to myself “The worst she could say is say no” which doesn’t seem so bad. But still in my head I was riding off of my confidence that I had built up so far. I finally
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