Becoming Airborne Lub-dub‚ inhale. Lub-dub‚ exhale. My heart was pounding as if I had been running on a treadmill for a straight hour. Sometimes it pounded through my brain‚ other times out my throat. My stomach was clenched and buried somewhere near my ankles. It was hard to breathe. It was hard to breathe because my biggest fear was standing right in front of me. And the stupid thing is‚ my fear stood still. “One ride on the Wild One‚ Monica. Just one ride and you’ll get the funnel cake you
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During my junior year of high school at Helias Catholic I joined a few clubs and rejoined numerous others. One of the clubs I decided to join Z club that year‚ which is a high school chapter of the Zonta Club‚ which exists as a female empowerment club that uses a global network of chapters to provide community service to humanity. Apprehensive described me as I walked into my first club meeting since I was not sure if I would know anybody else there‚ but as I entered I recognized numerous familiar
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The chilled Los Angeles winter winds howl outside her hillside mansion doors. Silence broken by trees. The trees that Ashlyn Slaters grandmother planted many‚ many years ago. The LA house was built by Gerald Slater and Lisa Oswaldo‚ soon to be Lisa Slater. They planted a tree as a symbol of their love‚ but once Ashlyn’s parents got married they gave the house to them. After giving the house to her parents‚ they retired to the peaceful Maine countryside. Ashlyns thoughts were rudely interrupted
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Who was the person that dubbed the idea of driving while under the influence to be such an atrocious thing? Clearly they weren’t very bright. Sure‚ 13‚000 people are killed each year in alcohol related accidents‚ but so what? The earth is becoming over-populated anyways. We don’t need those people. We’re better off without them. Driving is so boring. In order to make it fun and more exciting‚ why not drink a few beers‚ and take a few shots before hitting the road? How great would that be? Driving
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I casually walked down the stairs‚ and I saw something on the table. Confused at what it was‚ I walked closer. It was a shiny‚ small‚ white slip of paper. When I got closer‚ I realized it was a ticket to the Bulls game. My head exploded like a balloon. My face lit up like a light bulb because of how happy I was. I never went to a Bulls game before and I was really excited. I liked the Bulls a lot and I had a lot of Bulls clothing except I never really watched any of the games and I didn’t know many
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A lot of people I wouldn’t say that they’re racially insensitive they just don’t know better. I think that’s one of the things that I’m really thankful that I come from New York and that I grew up with all of these strange cultures around me. I think that helps me understand people better. Yeah. Paxton: You talked a bit about how you were located really close to the projects. Now did you have friends in the projects? David: Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh man. Josiah Daniels. My good friend Josiah Daniels
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According to the film’s blurb‚ Sana Dati is about "A Lifetime of Choices in a Single Day". The choices mentioned is to be made by a woman who feels painfully alone despite having the perfect groom whom her family and friends want her to be with. Her whole future would depend on the choices she would make on her wedding day. In an empty emporium stood a young lady named Andrea. She found a rose in a vase and an engagement ring in the soon-to-be-flower shop her boyfriend bought for her. He proposed
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One Day in October I was part of the black sea of roaring people. With my Scott Podsednik‚ White Sox jersey I can go back to one of my best memories which sparked a fandom that has and will last till I’m gone. It all started a few days after the Sox punched their ticket to the World Series and my family and I were in our dining room waiting for dad to come home in order to start dinner. He walked in and we welcomed him with our usual excitement as we wanted to tell him about our day. Before we
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The Ghost of Christmas Past reached for Carteno’s wrist‚ quickly grasping it as she tried to pull away. It was of no use‚ for the Ghost was far stronger than her and began to display a scene long forgotten. Carteno‚ rendered speechless‚ stood next to her wooden-framed bed. The meak light from the overcast sky was all that lit the dark room. Stained beige carpet coated the area of younger Carteno’s bedroom‚ surrounded by a white strip that connected the ground and wooden walls. A large thick television
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In the middle of August Mr. Gall told us to download an app that would track the amount of time I spend on my cell phone. Sadly‚ the app I downloaded deletes my usage after three weeks‚ so I only have three weeks of data. This is my story. The week of October 29th was my lowest documented week of the three. I spent around 12 hours on my phone‚ checked my phone 1675 times‚ and completely unlocked my phone 1363 times. This makes my daily average a bit less than 2 hours per day. That may seem like
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