Jamie’s black truck pulled outside my trailer. The roar of the pipes blocked out the sound of the water that poured from the gutter. The storm was over‚ but it had been one of the strong ones that made people talk about the tornado. Five years ago one hit so strong that three gas stations and twelve houses were destroyed. The middle school was thrown into the sewage treatment plants fence. All the damaged buildings were rebuilt‚ nothing ever leaves Carson. “Lily‚ are you ready to go? I ain’t waitin’
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ever! I have a pool that I just built in my new house that we moved into this year. Outside of school I love playing sports. Especially softball‚ track and soccer. I been playing softball for 5 years‚ soccer for 6 years and I just started track this year and I’m really liking it and I would love to do it next year. My favorite subject is language arts or reading because I love writing and creating stories. I also like history because I love learning about what happened in the past and what
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discussion about financial problems between my parents. It’s not that we were becoming poor‚ it was because of our growing family needing more supplies. My mother just gave birth to my little brother when I started noticing the financial issues my family were facing. As a little girl‚ I do not know how our finances worked all I knew was many bills were due and I knew it because when I was a little girl I liked to practice reading and those bill statements were the papers that attracted my interest
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sell what I offered to each new person I encountered‚ wondering if I had created a lasting impression. The people that had known me the longest hadn’t known me longer than a week. I as if nobody understood me yet. I then realized that I was looking at my vulnerability all wrong. Vulnerability is not a negative
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breath‚ repositioned my hands‚ and continued. CREAK! This cannot be happening. Again? Seriously? SNAP! This was the day I ripped my fifth roll of film. The four previous times it happened‚ I exited the darkroom‚ plastered on a smile‚ and continued on. On this day‚ however‚ when the bell rang‚ I scurried into the nurse’s office‚ pretending to be ill. Sulking home and locking myself in my bathroom‚ the bottled up emotions poured out in tears of frustration and embarrassment. Being my eighth mess-up in
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I’ve always prided myself on my ability to adapt. Being optimistic and working with the cards I’ve been dealt‚ has always been my strong point. When life throws something at you knowing how to adapt to it is your best option and it affects the way you look at life. I remember the exact day I first realized something was wrong. I was on the train with friends on our way to a soccer game and my shoulder started to ache. I thought it was just from carrying my heavy bag‚ or some dance related injury
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bought my Chevy Cobalt on Halloween 2006. On that particular fall day‚ all the warm colors that the season had to offer were essentially highlighted by the brightness of my yellow car. As time passed‚ I began to notice that everyone would stare at me when I drove by or pulled into a parking lot. I was wondering what all the fuss was about‚ so I stepped back and looked at my car. At that moment I had actually fell in love with distraction that I had just purchased. When you first walk up to my car
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school year ahead really depends on one key factor; myself. How my year turns out is ultimately based on how much effort I put into it. My own strengths vary from my work to my own personal growth. I think that from an educational standpoint‚ my strengths are mostly work related. I tend to be able to get focused and complete my assignments thoroughly‚ or at the very least to the best of my ability. From a personal standpoint‚ my strengths all revolve around others. I’m a quite person overall
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Today was June 4‚ and the bus was coming to a halt in front of my gray‚ two story house. I threw my backpack up on my shoulders and grabbed the black French Horn case sitting next to me. Starting at the sunny blue sky‚ a warm sensation was on my skin. Not long after‚ me and Josie had passed the first seat. We quickly said thank you to the bus driver‚ Joel. And jumped off the bus side by side with a wide smile on our faces. We were both free from school for a whole weekend. Without any sports or sibling
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I planned a quiet ride with just my horse‚ dog and I. It was expected it to be a normal ride until things went south. The plan was an evening ride with no other person just me and some animals. It was still light but the sun was setting so I should not have gone but did anyway. I went riding down country roads not expecting people to be there‚ but I was wrong. The ride was to escape family‚ I was really excited‚ but things did not end well I had planned to go on a short ride just the dog and I before
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