After a long trip to the Okanagan‚ I was finally back home. Exhausted and ready to curl up in bed as I had been trapped in a car for five hours listening to the same song on repeat. I crawled into my bed and wrapped myself in my favorite blanket making it easy for myself to drift into sleep. The next day‚ I woke up feeling offbeat. The sun was shining through my curtains‚ but I was feeling chills in the middle of a sunny August day. I felt my arms and realized I was covered in goose bumps. I screamed
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As a cultural experience‚ I took a trip to Chinatown. Both my sister and I were adopted from China‚ and because of that‚ I have not grown up in an environment where I am surrounded by Chinese culture. Despite my parents’ best efforts to provide an awareness of our heritage (which I strongly appreciate)‚ I still feel a large disconnect with my racial identity. I enjoyed going to all the little shops‚ eating Chinese food‚ and practicing my Chinese by reading any label‚ sign‚ or store name I saw. I
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An unforgettable day of my life On my 14th birthday‚ on the 22nd of April 2011 I woke up feeling blue. I was home alone in Switzerland. My father was away for work. On a special day like a birthday you want to be with your friends and family‚ the closest ones who you want to share your joy with. That day always was special to me‚ because we always went somewhere. I was crying whenever someone called me to congratulate‚ all I wanted was for them to be with me and give me a hug. I was preparing
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We just got off the plane and we are in Atlanta‚ Georgia. We came from Ohio and it was about an hour and a half to Atlanta. Atlanta is the biggest airport in the U.S.A. They had a big food court and a lot of shops to shop in. We were heading to gat D. We had to take the train‚ but we had to stop at A‚ B‚ C‚ and then finally‚ D. We had to go through security and that was the worst part. When we finally got finished with security we waited at our gate. After we got on the plane we took our seats then
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Until around eleven years old‚ Miami was my connection to family. When my mother told me and my sister that we were going to visit Chile‚ my mother’s homeland. On the plane ride‚ I couldn’t stop moving because of my excitement. When visiting a different country‚ there are so many expectations on how the environment will be‚ the strangers to encounter‚ and the local people. At a young age‚ my imagination was wild about the environment. I stepped outside and I ran back into the airport. My hands
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On Saturday April 13‚ 2013 I was walking through the parking garage on the USAA campus in San Antonio‚ TX to start my 4 hour work shift‚ I began to go through the turnstile and seemingly startled awake a bat. This bat began to fly and squeal in fear. It darted at my head getting caught in my hair a couple times. I started to scream and flail my arms about trying to fend off the nocturnal flying mammal in fear. During what seemed to be forever I was able to unlock the turnstile and exit the entry
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I was so excited‚ I had never been to Tennessee before. It was my first time being more than three hours away from home. The drive is usually three hours‚ but we stopped at a relative’s house on the way there‚ which added three hours to the drive.Therefore‚ the drive ended up being six hours. We were going to Tennessee for my sister’s softball tournament. We had just arrived at our really nice hotel. I could not wait to go inside and see what is was like. In my eyes‚ the hotel looked like a castle
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I’m not sure what to do anymore‚ Abigail asked me to come with her to Boston. We do not have that much money and I’m really apprehensive people will come looking for us. Abby told me that everything will be alright‚ but we have already broken into Reverend Parris house none of this seems morally right. She threatened me saying if I leave or tell anyone she will kill me. We had been planning on leaving for about a week. She came up to me after one of the hangings and told me that we need to
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I have been forcefully shoved in to a cattle car. The car is packed with hundreds of people. The tiny car was so tightly packed with people that there were people dying because of it. We had no food or water so that increased the death rate. We were packed in the cattle car for 2 days. The car finally came to a stop. As we exited they were yelling in a strange language and separating people from their families. looks like the crazy old man from home may have been right. Is this the horrible place
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Hello I am a Cambodian-American and I want to lend a hand to my fellow brothers and sisters in Cambodia. I just want to make this clear that all the money that is donated will go DIRECTLY to schools and school necessities for children. I wanted to start this fundraising because during my visitation to Cambodia‚ I was saddened by the amount of poverty-stricken familes the country has. With the need of money to attend schools‚ childrens unfortunatly cannot partake in education due to the cost. Typically
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