When I Woke

Allow me to begin by expressing that I regret my actions that have led to me writing this letter. In the fall of 2014 I decided to begin my college career; however, this later proved to be a mistake for multiple reasons. During the summer before the fall semester, I met a girl which led to the first relationship that I have ever had. I spent every night with her and stayed awake, most nights, until five in the morning, disrespected my parents, and began calling out of work. These poor habits…

My family and I are celebrating with my moms side which is the Inman’s. We get to see all our cousins and swim with them. There is a lake, a volleyball court but there is no net, sadly we forgot to bring one for the weekend. Tomorrow we are having a ‘White trash bash’. What is a “White Trash Bash’ you ask? This is where you wear clothing that you normally would not wear in public here in Albion but some may wear because we may label them as “rednecks”. When we get to the Cabin I see the…

When I woke up, the other side of the bed was cold. My fingers stretch out, seeking Lucy’s warmth, but finding only the absence of her presence.it was a typical day for me. Wake up, eat breakfast, feed Lucy and walk to school with two heavy books on my hands. I was considered the ‘nerdy and shy’ girl at school. I realized senior year in high school only meant learning to me while I was focused on graduating my peers thought about it as ‘the time of their lives’ where they had the chance to party…

Essay In August 2016, my family and I went on vacation. Every year during the summer we usually go on vacation but this specific trip was one of the best i've ever been on. In July, we were starting to plan our vacation, and we thought we should do something that would be fun and would be an amazing experience. So, we decided that we were going to drive to Roanoke and stay at a hotel for the night, and the next day, we would drive to Tennessee. After a couple of days in Tennessee, we would go…

It was a crisp summer day and I was laying on the sandy beach of Dewmont Lake. The smell of sweat and sunscreen was in the air and it was a scorching hot day. So I decided to go in the water with my friends Callie and Emily. We splashed around in the lake and played all sorts of games with each other and with our other neighbors who were at the lake with us. One of my favorite games was chicken fights and I got to say Emily and I were pretty much the best team out there. Once we were tired of…

Hello, I’m Chelsea Elizabeth McDaniel and this is my personal narrative! I was born in Phoenix, Arizona and lived in a large, one story house with my half-sister who at the time was 8 and my half-brother who at the time was 10. I went to Madison Elementary and then when I was 6 it was summer time, I went out back to see my dad having a drink on “the rocks” and for some reason I asked, “Hey Dad, are we ever going to move?”. I wasn’t expecting to wake up the next afternoon to the house entirely…

I wanted to make tapa/kapa, bark cloth that old Polynesians and Hawaiians used to make. This is because I have learned how to make tapa/kapa in my ethnobotany class. I have been amazed how early Polynesians and Hawaiians were closely connected to the nature and how they incorporate with nature to live sustainably. I enjoyed learning how they created clothes in the old days. Therefore, I decided to make tapa/kapa from a scratch. To be honest, a night before this morning, I got some trouble with…

Ski Trip to Vermont My friends and I consider ourselves to be very spontaneous and adventurous. It was one cold week in February of 2016, when a group of about 6 of my friends (including me) all decided that we wanted to go to Vermont for the weekend to ski and snow tube. Considering this would be my first trip with no parental guidance at all, I was apprehensive about asking my mom. On the way to drop me off after school one day, my best friend Tony told me to tell her that he was going too…

stories about a boy’s imagination, but when digging deeper, there are several topics that the author tackles. In A. A. Milne’s collection of stories “Winnie the Pooh,” there is a correlation between its characters and societal institutions such as entertainment and manufacturing. Tigger is a prime example of the entertainment industry. In “In which Tigger comes to the forest and has breakfast,” Eeyore requests Pooh to “ask [Tigger] to do his exercises somewhere else? I shall be having lunch…

Prenatal Development The day I found out that I was pregnant was a day of unmatchable joy for both my husband and I. Our joy was continued throughout the pregnancy until the doctor had offered us possible test to see if the baby had any problems. I didn’t want to know until the baby was born, but my husband insisted. The doctor conducted a maternal blood screening, as well as a noninvasive prenatal diagnosis (Santrock 2014, pg. 52). The tests came back positive for Down syndrome. At that point…