This picture expresses every single one of my family member’s personality. This picture was taken at Lake Latoka in Minnesota. We had such a great time there, although my Grandma sold our cabin a couple years ago. I still remember the crisp waves lapping up against the dock. The sound was so lulling and peaceful that you didn’t have trouble getting to sleep.…
Addey Greenhalgh - My Story Monologue It was our last softball game of the season. I was pitching. It was the second half, and if we let them get even one run, we would lose. We had already beat this team twice, and were ready to beat them again.…
Cedar Point, the Roller Coaster Capital of the world, certainly lives up to its title. Scattered throughout the park are some of the most intense roller coasters you’ll ever hear of. I was fortunate enough to have experienced the phenomenon of riding atop the Top Thrill Dragster over summer vacation, which lasted only 20 seconds of real time, but will forever be embedded within my long-lasting memory. The fiery orange sun began to submerge below the line of the horizon, far out across the calm, murky waters of Lake Erie.…
On Thursday September 22, the entire class met at 9:30am in front of the windmill. There we were told the route through the Cedar Dell Pond we were heading in and shown naturally occurring jagged rocks from Professor Broadrose. While still standing by the windmill we were told to look over the pond area and imagine there were no trees, this would be a Tundra. This is what existed 9-11 thousand years BCE. The day was hot, at this time there were no clouds in the sky.…
I walked down the street. One person passed by; I tried to smile at them but their head was down. Another person strolled by and the same thing happened. I began to observe that people are consumed by their phones and other devices. I quickly became frustrated that checking my phone every hour didn’t give me the same satisfaction as it used to.…
First Day at the Lake “Brooklyn, wake up. It's time to get up and get dressed and get ready to leave.” My dad said as he shook me awake. It was mid summer and my plane awaits my family and I. As I rolled over and opened my eyes, looking at my alarm clock, I noticed it was 4:08am. I was really excited to get up and get ready to leave.…
We arrived at Alcove Springs. It was a beautiful site. It was a long trip! It took us six days to go one hundred sixty six miles. It won't be as bad as the next trip.…
Clomp! Clomp! Clomp! Our boots pound the rocky Colorado trail in the middle of a cold, starry night above the massive tree line with a spectacular view of the lights of Leadville, as we hiked our first 14,000 foot mountain of the summer. Clomp!…
Conner Yoshimoto Mrs. Marino 21 September 2015 Short Story It started one morning in February, 1942. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed executive order 9066. It stated that all Japanese Americans are sent to internment camps in the United States. A news anchor reported this too. Little did I know that this moment changed my life forever.…
It was a Sunny day in North Carolina what was known a tragic moment that's about to happen. When I was in 5th grade my family and I were going to North Carolina. It was September 2013 and I was having fun and my family was also having fun and the group that we wen in North Carolina. We were windsurfing on a lake that was strange and scary. In this lake it isn’t like a normal lake it is really weird it had grass and rocks instead of sand.…
Going to Wilderness It all started in the car when I kept saying “When are we going to arrive”. My parents kept answering “Soon” We were going to Wilderness it is in Wisconsin Dells. When we arrived, we set ourselves up and we went to the pool. There were big slides.…
Lagoon “ Stay back!” said my dad. We were on the skyline at Lagoon. My dad was super paranoid. He is so afraid of heights.…
7:00 am- I open my eyes and a thin beam of early-morning light shines into by enormous bedroom. A breeze blows the drapes on my bay window revealing the sun still low in the sky, which cast feeble shadows about the room, decorated with exotic souvenirs and artifacts from my adventures all over the world. I step out the door to a deck with a huge, sparkling pool and a trail leading back towards the rocky cliff overlooking the ocean. I follow the trail out to the cliff and study the tropical, green-blue water so far below for a moment.…
Introduction: It was hard to tramp our barefoot through the muck in our stunning, not so appealing creek. Dodging muck balls, “splat!,” the muck hit me in the face. Fish swimming between our toes. Finding hidden treasures. Jumping over rocks, stepping in the sand and especially having fun running our bare feet through the mucky water.…
As I open the door to walk through my backyard, the cold quickly stings my face, legs, and hands, I realized that the walk I was about to begin would be a long and terribly bitter time. So I shut the door behind myself and started out on my adventure, walking slowly, to take in as much as I could. I noticed that overnight the ground was covered in beautiful shimmering white snow, so perfect and immaculate, it almost seemed like a waste to tread over and ruin the lovely display over my property. While I continued further into the cold I looked out at my pond and saw that it has iced over completely and fully frozen, frozen enough to walk on. So I put one step on the pond still a little unsure and not wanting to get wet and frozen!…