As soon as the summer of 2015 ended‚ I was living in Colombia. I was used to spending summer with my family and friends in Colombia or traveling to the US to play golf tournaments or golf camps. But that summer was different. My parents told me I was spending the summer at USF in Tampa at “SuperCamp”. I read all about it on the internet and all it said was that it was a fun academic camp. I was not happy at all‚ but the decision was already made. I remember when I arrived to campus‚ there were
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My life changed in September 14‚ 2000‚ when I arrived to this country with my son and my husband. I remember that day like it was yesterday. We woke up early in the morning‚ and went to the airport. I was sad because I knew that in a long time I would no see my family. I was excited the first day that I arrived to the United State of America. Everything looked clean and new‚ the people were nice and friendly. The change for me was a new experience and took a lot of time to get accustomed to. The
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My family and I had just landed on Oahu. The sight was one to behold. Beautiful grass-covered mountain ranges and a clear blue sky. We had seen the other islands of Hawaii leading up to Oahu like Maui and the Big Island but none of them were like this. When my family and I had gotten off the plane we were given lei’s to welcome us to what was a foreign place. We immediately got our luggage from the conveyor belt and a rental car‚ a 2016 Toyota Highlander that was as black as the night. The air and
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whom I had just met recently‚ questioned‚ “gonna be our goalie for the tournament?” Puzzled‚ I had tilted my head and responded‚ “Yeah‚ I think so.” “Awesome! I was hoping you would be‚” she had exclaimed‚ to my surprise. The echoes of this conversation circled through my head as I stood stoically in the goalcrease‚ refusing to show any anxiety. Clouds of breath billowed out of my mask like smoke. It was the championship game of a tournament and our team had tied the game up at the last minute
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was wrong. My mother took me to the doctor who said‚ “Nothing is wrong.” So I just cried all day and night. As I was got older‚ I was the person that did not eat a lot. Every day when dinner was ready‚ my mother forced me go to the kitchen and eat until I had finished everything. Instead of me eating‚ however‚ I would fall asleep on the table‚ just nodding out on the spot. That happened throughout my fourth grade year of elementary school. When I went to fifth grade‚ my mother took
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Life is full of risks. And not all risks are predictable. The first and the biggest crisis in my life happened a few days after the fifteenth birthday. I was diagnosed with a kind of cancer and took a year off from middle school to have chemotherapy after surgery. Fortunately‚ I was on the mend after hospitalizing for the first three months‚ so I received the outpatient treatment after that. Now it was time to go back to school. However‚ I had a lot of different thoughts running through my mind.
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LITeracy Narrative The written word is what has driven our society forward. It is what pushes us forward to became great. Some of the most important events in history have happened because of books or documents. The Declaration of Independance and the Bible are two of the biggest literary pieces in history. I am only beginning my life‚ but there have still been many literary events in my life that have changed me as a person.They might seem subtle at first‚ but later in life they might affect you
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was diagnosed with adhd before I can remember. So my learning disability had been stealing confidence from me bit by bit my whole life. My husband makes me confidant. It’s easier now. Until I moved in with his Mormon parents. I’m not going to lie I really just wanted them want them to like me. I am not Mormon I’m not religious at all actually. I am agnostic so I don’t think entirely that the Mormon religion is wrong. I just don’t know. My whole life for some reason I just thought that all people were
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towards Israel‚ that it is my role to be more active as a Jew. It is important to me to embrace what it means to be a Jew in today’s world and to be comfortable representing this amongst people who are different from myself. If the Jewish message is that everyone is
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First Accomplishment in My Life It is so difficult to live in the United States‚ the land of opportunity‚ without education and the English language. Without these two things‚ our lives seem like meaningless. My family is one of the victims of this problem. Two years ago‚ when I was a senior student in high school‚ I almost could not graduate from high school with diploma in hand because of failing the exit exam twice and my lack knowledge of English. At that time‚ I really wanted to
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