there was no school it was because it was the day that she got her first dog‚ his name is Bear. Alena loves him with all her heart every square inch except for 2 one for her mom and one for her dad. As she was floating on her tube she was thinking about those autumn nights back in Maine when they would play tag and bond like a real family. They would do this every single night in spring and fall until one day her dad drown and was never seen again. “Alena come for a swim” her cousin yelled up toward
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not impossible. Being the oblivious seven year old I was‚ I thought that the rest of the world lived just as good or better than we do here in America. While that may be true for many parts of the world‚ it isn’t for some‚ like Yemen. As we were packing our bags‚ my parents were telling me their memories of Yemen‚ all of which were good and only made me even more anxious to get to Yemen. We got
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bubonic plague and have been trapped in my cinderblock home for the past 58 hours. This flu has wrecked me despite how high my blood-OJ content is. Besides taking time to figure out just how many bugs are stuck in my lighting fixture‚ I’ve otherwise had about 57 hours to think. I’m a second semester senior‚ so that means I (erroneously) think I suddenly have tons of wisdom to share‚ even though I just learned that Café de Grasta even exists. When I was little‚ I was never okay with getting sick and with
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from Ohio to West Virginia during her teens. My grandfather moved from Ohio to California during his preteens. It was time for my big move‚ and as a result I grew into the person I am today. I was eleven when my father told me the news that I was moving. At first I didn’t believe him‚ and treated the move as a joke. It was when my dad took my brother
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We drove in a bright emerald minivan who was older than America. The seats were a gray-blue color‚ the color of a stormy sea. The cup holders were half broken and the windows were covered in tiny sticky fingerprints. The sun beat down in hot and stifling waves. All the liquid in the car was near boiling and crayons
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The sky started to glow fiery red as the sun moved behind the mountains. My grandfather and I regularly walked during the evenings but that day we walked for a while. There was something different about that day‚ as though we didn’t want to go back home. We kept on strolling down the red brick road until we reached the famous Buddhist monument which was fairly close from our house. The monument had immense eyes that stared at everyone who walked past it. My grandfather explained to me that the eyes
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to move to a new country; like other refugees‚ they have challenges like having to move from their homes‚ which sometimes makes them feel inside out. When Ha and her family moved they left behind‚ “Ten gold-rimmed glasses Father brought back from America…”(Lai‚57). They have to leave their home because they want to go to a safe place to live‚ and they chose to only take so much with them. The items that they took were‚ a shirt‚ a pair of pants‚ three pairs of underwear‚ among other things‚ and they
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In life everyone has heard words that just stick with them. The words that make you think twice about how you feel about certain situations. The words of encouragement i remember the most are from my dad. For example‚ The time i didn’t want to relocate to Indiana. I listened to him and i’m very happy that i did relocate. First of all‚ there were many reasons I did not want to relocate. For example‚ I loved the weather in Seattle‚ and all of my friends were there. One main reason‚ I did not want
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Growing up I attended private Catholic schools and was surrounded by hundreds of loving and devoted Catholics. As a very young child‚ I remember walking to church with my family every Sunday morning and going to mass‚ or we went to church events and dinners with each other and our friends. However‚ as I grew older we moved from California to Alabama and my faith changed. We still went to Church but less frequently and it felt less like a family reunion where God greeted us all. My faith and opinion
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fought through it. I can clearly remember the time when I used to get bullied. My family and I had just moved to Canada a few months ago and I wasn’t able to speak English very well at the time. I was so excited to learn everything there was to know about Canada‚ especially now that I knew that everyone didn’t live in igloos. Before coming to Canada I was told by a friend in India that everyone lived in igloos‚ of course being six at the time I believed her without questioning it. I was also very excited
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