Winter break is only a couple days away and everyone’s excited! The break is a great chance for clubs and teams to celebrate the holidays. The FFA, swim team, and lots of other clubs/sports teams have big plans for Christmas. Will your club or team do anything special this Christmas?…
At the beginning of my Christmas break, I was sitting by a smoky, hot fire with some hot coco with marshmallows in it with a warm blanket on a cold day. On the second day of break, I was riding my four wheeler drifting on the icy roads trying to go get more wood for my family's fire at my grandma and grandpa's house .But when I got there and there was a big puff of smoke in the back and it smelled like a fire so I ran back there, but it was just my grandma and grandpa making a fire so they could roast marshmallows so I joined and roasted marshmallows with them then I got my wood and rode back home.…
Five top Florida spring break destinations Florida is one of the top spring break destinations in the country. The state offers spring breakers with hundreds of miles of white sandy beaches and places to choose from. Panama City Panama City has become the number one destination for spring breakers. More than 200,000 people flock to the area each year. In recent years, the area has become a favorite destination for college students.…
My best day of spring break was when we were driving home from Ohio and we saw a huge car meet. We had to stop by because there were so many cars to see. Before we walked into the meet, we stopped by Starbucks to get coffee. From there we walked to the meet. It was a pretty exciting walk because you could hear cars, music, and lots of talking.…
Why Schools Should Keep Summer Break Some schools around America are thinking about making a transition from the traditional school schedule to year-round school, but making this change to the school schedule can cause with schedules and summer activities. With summer school, camps as well as jobs that are scheduled during the summer will be interfering with the school schedule. Summer also provides a long break for students to rest plus do other activities that cannot be done with school. To go along with these benefits, it is also a tradition to have a summer break. Summer break helps keep everyone on the same schedule and helps students to relax.…
Fall 2015, right before the thanksgiving break, fate decided to bring the terrible illness of Guillain-Barré syndrome to my mother. But, before I explain why this impacted me so hard, let me tell you how much my mother means to me. My mom and dad are divorced.…
PTSD stands or post-traumatic stress disorder. It is a mental illness that some people get after witnessing or experiencing a dangerous or fearful event in their life (BOOK). No body has to fight in wars to acquire this illness. The cause of PTSD can originate from a natural disaster, horrifying experience, fear, or helplessness(BOOK). In women's cases, assault, rape, and domestic violence are the leading causes for this illness (BOOK).…
Having A Ruptured Appendix On Labor Day 2006 I was brought to Saint Luke's Hospital. My parents didn't know why I wasn't eating or drinking water for the past couple days when I was 2 years old. My mom thought I just had the 24 hour flu because I kept regurgitating, but she was completely wrong. What I had was way worse, but who knew I had a ruptured appendix? No one knew until that night of Monday, September 2, 2006, Labor Day.…
I left for school a couple of hours later. My first class of the day was english, around 30 minutes into class the phone rang and it was for me. I was going home for the day. When I got to the car my mom was in tears.…
My mom had woken the 4 of us kids up and she sounded worried and we didn’t know why. She told us to change and hurry downstairs with a blanket to stay warm. Tabby and I didn’t know what was going on but we knew it wasn’t good. At this time we were living in a homeless shelter on Division St. because my mother was divorcing my father and we had no place to live.…
D is for Dad One typical Friday night my parents and I were sitting on the couch watching the news waiting for my sister to get home from work so we could eat dinner my dad had everything ready so when she got home we could eat together. I was helping my mom put some Thanksgiving decorations up when the news came back on and said that “there was an attack in Paris by ISIS and at least 129 people were killed” just when they started talking about it my sister walked so we all sat together hoping and praying that everyone was safe. Just then my dad got a phone call he ran into the Kitchen to grab his phone. My dad answered his phone and it was his boss, he was calling to tell my dad “he needed…
I grab the handle of the bedroom door with my hands shaking and my heart pounding. As I pushed the door opened I saw my mother with my little baby sister wrapped in her arms and shaking furiously begging her to please wake up. As of that moment I realized something was wrong with my little baby sister. At that time, I was eleven years old. I have never lost a loved one before and death is a word I did not know existed.…
We had just got home late from my dad’s friday doctors social and I remember going to bed and calls started to come in from people we knew. My parents were frantic. The couldn’t believe what they had been told. I came down awoken from all of the commotion downstairs. I asked my brother what had happened.…
Have you ever been on an escalator? I have many times and one time it was crazy and let me tell you why. It was the fall of 2011 and I was 5 years old. I was in kindergarten around the time and it was a saturday. My mom, my 2 sister and I went to the Roosevelt Field Mall and we were enjoying ourselves.…
Suddenly I heard my mom say “Oh my gosh, what happened?” I knew something was terribly wrong. She told me that we needed to leave now; your brother was just on the phone. I ran upstairs…