seventh grade. A trip back to Oklahoma for the first time in seven years. It’s been nine years since I laid eyes on my mother. Oh‚ how much she has changed. Her energetic and youthful personality has become full of stress and the desire to gather her life together. Five years since I’ve seen grandfather. I will never forget his face full of tears and his arms shaking as they tightly wrap around my body. The grandfather who was once strong enough to carry me is now weak to the legs. A skinny silver cane
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wanting to break down in tears I looked over at the deputy standing just to the right of me and asked her to escort me back to my cell. On the walk back‚ I replayed everything in my head that had put me in the situation I was in‚ I remember it was about 5:00 pm on a Friday evening‚ me and my ex boyfriend were home cooking dinner. The phone rang and he answered‚ it was two of his cousins asking if they could come over and hang out? Not thinking the night would end with us behind bars‚ we
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Kora yelled‚ “GO! The show MUST go on!” Quickly Phoenix said‚ “What about that snow‚ it is really falling down fast.” “NO! DON’T GO!!” screamed George. In my small little town there is a grocery store‚ with red trim‚ and run down. You are in a run down little outside town‚ but has it’s rich perks. The hills are what bring most tourists and sometimes the Winter parade. Who knew Jenny could learn how to be so selfless‚ so fast‚ in such little time. First‚ we are going to start off with a little get
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Life in the trenches is varied differently from alliance to alliance‚ but the hardship is still the same. So what are the trenches like for our soldiers at war? All of the soldiers face many difficulties while at war. Death is a constant comrade in war whether in the trenches or not. Constant shellfire brings random deaths to those not even on guard. Many of the soldiers are buried due to large bombardments in the trenches. Death is shown all around not just from bombardments‚ but also disease
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Bloody‚broken‚ all for this sport. I’ll never hold back. I play it‚ love it‚ live it. Softball‚ my sport‚ my love‚ my life. It was an ordinary day in Spring City‚ sun was beaming‚ there was a blue sky‚everything was perfect. It was the fifth inning in my softball game‚ and I was next up to bat‚ I grabbed my batting gloves quickly pulling them over each one of my fingers‚ next my helmet sliding it over my hair‚ which is in a ponytail‚ and my blue bat with black and gold writing on the steel
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was a day I felt that it was time for a change. I was in a place in my life where I felt like I was stuck and very unhappy. Even though I had everything that I thought would make me happy‚ I was not happy. I had a job‚ my own place a car and plenty of friends‚ and yet I still felt unhappy. Deciding to move was a hard decision because I was not only changing my life I was leaving friends that I had been around my whole life‚ 25 years to be exact. I was leaving my mother‚ my two brothers‚ my uncle
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to the dugout‚ and my teammates high-fiving each other‚ our coach‚ said we needed to score 2 more runs to win the game‚ 10 minutes later‚ we were celebrating‚ that we won the last game of the season. All the coaches‚ lecturing us on our season‚ about our ‘ups and downs’ all had a happy expression. At the end of the huddle‚ we all rushed to the table with our grumbling stomach‚ and our dirty hands‚ taking fried rice‚ somen salad‚ chili‚ rice‚ and hot dogs from tinfoil trays. We sat down and gorged
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playing. After were all exhausted we decide to go inside and play video games. After I dominate them in video games it is time for them to go home. Looking back over the years I learned that Thanksgiving isn’t about all the food you can eat‚ or a football game‚ or the parade. Thanksgiving is about family and getting together to spend time with your loved ones. I think the pilgrims created Thanksgiving to spend time together. I learned that not to many people can have what my family has and I am thankful
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temperatures plummeted from mid-nineties to the upper sixties in a flash. Every morning I leave for school around 6:30AM‚ this morning it was forty seven and - I was bundled up like a burrito. I suppose I can’t be satisfied because I always comment about the heat and now that it is cold‚ I am still complaining. When moving from a colder climate to a warmer climate it takes a little time‚ clearly‚ for your blood to thin. 2012 brought on the move from mostly cold and humid Pennsylvania to the dry inferno
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Juice DR. Milton November 11‚ 2012 Process Essay How to flunk college Procrastination is a perfect way to flunk out of college. We all have those friends who like to brag about great they are in college. Those people really bother me. And it is because I can never get anything done. It takes me a long time to accomplish the simplest tasks. I pride myself in being a grade A procrastinator. Because of a room being messy‚ daydreaming‚ and interacting with people through social media will
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