The Trampoline It was September 2005, I just woke up and we just got a new trampoline. I was so excited to go play on it, but I had school for just about two days until the weekend. Once the weekend came we all played on the trampoline, and when I say all I mean my brother and six to seven other friends. A few weeks after we bought it one of my friends little brother wanted to play on the trampoline, so I said sure go ahead.…
The Never Ending Rollercoaster As my friends and I pass by store to store we had realized that there was a bright red flyers. It had caught our eye, we went and grabbed a flyer and it had said “Ladies and Gentlemen there is going to be a new rollercoaster opening up this Saturday! Come and join the ride!” My friends had said that they wanted to go and check out the rollercoaster.…
Assignment 4 - Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo One literary device Katherine Boo uses throughout the entire story is anecdotes. The novel tells the true story of people in the Annawadi slum outside the Mumbai Airport. However, it is through these people’s stories, she is able to display the reality of the lives and condition of India’s poor. One of the people mentioned in the book is Kalu.…
An inspirational teacher in my life would have to be a women by the name of DeAnna Crossland. She is my loving hardworking mother who cares for me and struggles raising her only child as a single parent. My mother is around 5’1 with a medium build, brown hair, blue eyes and a warm smile. Although she is very loving, she is also very strict as her dad was to her. Overall, she is the best mother I could ask for.…
Imagine a baseball tee falling on your head. Can you picture it? Well, that happened to me. When that baseball tee fell on my head, it hurt, and it wasn't easy to deal with, but I persevered and got through it. So how it happened was, I was 5 or 6 years old, my whole family was outside, and I went into the shed.…
This story begins on a hot, summer Sunday on a neighborhood playground in Ponte Vedra Beach Florida when I was a kindergartener. The playground had one item that I liked the most which was a thing that you would hold onto then someone would push you across ten feet while your feet were hanging down. My dad came up to push me and might have pushed me a little too hard. When I got to the end of the line there was a rubber block that stops you very abruptly. Due to inertia, I was flung off of the handle over the rail, then did some crazy acrobatics in the air, Finally I landed right on top of my left wrist.…
She and I If someone asks me, what kind of person, I am in Elementry school, I will tell them, I used to be the worst students in the whole school. Whenever I go to school, I fight with other people and hurt them. All the teachers know me because they all stop me from bullying other students. Two times I was badly injured that I had to go to the hospital for surgery.…
This last school year I moved to Nebraska to live there for awhile. While I was there I went to school and played my favorite sport baseball. I was very excited for our first practice, and our first game. My excitement skyrocketed when coach told me at the end of practice that I would start at shortstop and close the game pitching.…
Narrative Essay On June 16, 1999 a young Somalian child was born in Kansas City, MO. His name was Omar Jailani. Raised in a small town in a very busy neighborhood young Jailani made many friends. Their names were Yasin, Oreo, Yahya, and Abdi. They would always meet up in the middle of the playground to discuss their plans.…
“Woohoo!” I said as I zoomed up the roller- coaster tracks. I was at Knott’s Berry Farm with my friends from church. It was my first time going and it was totally awesome. I was really looking forward to going with my church.…
For the past four years of my life, I’ve been trying to enjoy my life as much as possible. You see, I lived a life similar to most kids. I went to school, I played with my friends, I complained about my mom’s cooking. However, in life, everyone has that one-day that changes you. Four years ago, my life changed.…
Attention grabber: (Make someone WANT to know what happened.) I will never forget the day when I was on top of my house. Basic Situation: (Who? When? Where? This is usually where you find out about the conflict, or problem.)…
A fracture in my life The autobiography “knots in my yo-yo string” is a autobiography about Jerry Spiaelli whos perfect until he found a knot in his yoyo string. A yoyo string is like life, and a knot is like a problem, everyone gets a knot in there yo-yo every once in a while. “My life was going great. Just got moved up to the A team in volleyball and just started dance.…
Playgrounds….playgrounds are a great part of childhood. They give joy and excitement to the young boys and girls that climb, slide, and explore them. The most familiar thing about playgrounds are the children and then swings. The annoying sound of the creaky chains moving back and forth. However, ever since I was 15 years old, it's haunted me to the bone.…
Lost and Found Have you ever lost your parents? Whenever they is war they will be a loser and a weaner. My parents were living in a small village call Bulla Hawa which is located in Somalia and they were having seven kids. I was the older kid in our family and I was ten year old at that time. After the serval war in Somali people started to group themselves in small region and have someone who can lead them but unfortunately people were having tribe problems and they starting to dived the people according to his or her tribe and if you are not a mange the tab tribes in that region they will kill you.…