The Day I Nearly Died Year after year our family takes a trip to Colorado for spring break. It’s an exhilarating trip because I get to see all my wild and wacky relatives as well as spend some quality time on the slopes. Something funny or embarrassing always happens. This time was different. This time‚ I could have died! Generally when we go out on the slopes‚ falling down is one of my specialties. Putting an extremely clumsy person on skis and sending them down the hill‚ I found
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forget that day. It was in February that my father told me my older sister might not be coming home. I was home alone and had been since the very end of January. My dad called me from the Children’s Hospital in Denver‚ Colorado. It started out with what seemed to be a normal conversation. “Hi‚ Dad! How’s Bridgette doing?” “She’s still goin.’ Just had another seizure. We got some news today.” “Oh‚ yeah? What is it?” “Well‚ if your sister has surgery‚ there’s a chance she won’t make it.” I was eleven
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Common App Essay I remembered I was 4 years old flying a plane to a place I have never seen before. I touched down in a dry‚ humid place with little to no green trees‚ but all the people there looked like me. Living in America has always made me wonder what life back home was like and I got the chance when I was about 4. If only I could remember most of the things I experienced. At the time I was living in your average suburban neighborhood but I never forgot where I came from. My parents are both
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December 7‚2013 I killed my first deer. On that day it was cold and the air was crisp‚ earlier that morning soft fluffy snow had fallen. I was sitting in the stand where you could see the fallen leaves and the white snow mixture. The trees were restless when the cold freezing wind would blow‚ you could hear and see tree limbs falling from having to much snow‚ the birds and squirrels were out playing in the snow‚ but I wasn’t out to hunt the squirrels and birds I was out there to kill my first deer.
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The day I met William Shakespeare It’s 2pm local time in London and I just arrived. A 19 year old all alone in London‚ haha I’m gonna get lost. I might check in to the hotel and then check this big town out‚ tomorrow I’ll visit Madame Tussauds and Stratford-upon-Avon‚ where Shakespeare grew up. Madame Tussauds is pretty close to my hotel‚ so I take that first. I walked over there and by the time I was listening to British music. I got lost two times on my way to Madame Tussauds‚ so I bought a
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Clothes and What They Mean To Me. What is fashion? Is it the haute couture gown painstakingly made by hand that parade down the runways at London‚ Paris and New York Fashion week‚ or is it the top brands that can sell a simple t-shirt for two hundred euro? I believe that although those top fashion houses do influence the high street market they are unaffordable by the normal working person. I believe that fashion is very much personal. I dress for how I feel every day. Everybody has those days
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Most Embarrassing Day in My Life When I was in Form four‚ my school held an English elocution contest. I was really horrified when I was chosen as one of the participants. For the next few days‚ I searched model essay books for a suitable topic to speak on for I could never had written my own speech even if my life depended on it. Eventually‚ I chose a topic on pollution because at that time‚ everyone from the man in the street to the top ministers were talking about it. After that‚ I memorized the
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My family and I grew up in Mexico with a mother was a very strict catholic. She would take us to church and to all sorts of events the church we went to sponsored. Also‚ Halloween is not a holiday in Mexico. Instead‚ we celebrate the Day of the Dead and the Day of All Saints. Every year‚ during these two days‚ my family and I would go to our local cemetery and place marigold flowers and food on the graves on our ancestors. It was a tradition we kept doing until we moved here to Glenwood Springs.
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The Waiting room was cold and unfriendly and as the clock ticked away moments of her life she sat nervously. Her inky eyes looked petrified and alone and every time she took her eyes off the clock she thought the other people were starting and judging her. Was she something to gawp at? Could they guess? She was sick with fear and her hands seemed liquid. It had been late. Too late and there had been no protection. The calming breeze swished through her smooth chestnut brown hair. Her silky‚ tanned
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I shot my best friend‚ Akin‚ in my home’s kitchen. He was not alone when I shot him; there was a man with‚ a stranger that shot back in defense. I was hit too‚ but felt no immediate pain‚ because was still able to manage a shot at the stranger‚ before I dropped to the floor with strange heaviness. The man ran towards me as I was falling‚ my mind told me he was coming to hasten my death‚ because I was badly wounded already. My neighbors‚ who accompanied me‚ were already on the floor. But to my surprise
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