When i was younger i used to live at Christopher Lake I spent a lot of my childhood there. There's not much i remember from when i was young, But i remember meeting a guy named Drewe when i was 10 or 11, He was tall for his age with short brown hair and Hazel eyes. He sat next to me and he was pretty funny so we quickly became friends, as we got to know each other better we realized we liked pretty much the exact same things and got along very well. We lived fairly close to each other so we spent a lot of time back and forth between houses. He lived close to a lake and i was morso in the forest so we would switch houses every weekend and explore the area around our houses and hunt for rabbits until we had to go home.…
On a warm starry night, I was out at a softball game of my dad’s at the Eureka Lake. I was with friends, we were messing around. Little did we know what was going to be hit upon us. I was at my dad’s softball game and my friends were there too. Their dad was on the other team.…
I was twelve. Jim was seven and it was his first fishing trip with me, a large responsibility. "Make sure no one drowns! " Mother, who never learned to swim, exhorted me one more time.…
Gonzo's Lake House On a nice sunny summer day Veronica, Victoria, and I woke up around 9:30-10:00. We ate breakfast and right away we wanted to go out on the boat and go tubing. Every time we go out there we always wake up and right away go tubing… Also, we have to wait for Joe to wake up. Luckily Uncle Tony was there, so he took us.…
The crisp breeze rustled my hair as I walked out of my house on the fall September day with my dad drilling instructions into my head. It was my first Little League baseball game ever, and my dad wanted to make sure it wasn’t my last. Being seven years old and never touching a baseball was something that had scared me; a lot. I had no idea what to think about this foreign, petrifying, game could possibly be about. The car ride from my house was only a few minutes away from the fields where I would begin my baseball career.…
“Don't be afraid of change. You may end up losing something good, but you will probably end up gaining something better !” -unknown. Two years ago I moved from my home in Blue Springs where I was comfortable and serene to this new foreign small town that I’ve never even heard of before now. Back in Blue Springs I was in “the crowd”.…
There’s a little slice of Heaven in Marshall, Texas, where the sun shines through the pines and the sound of cicadas serenade you throughout your afternoon and the lake shines like a plate of polished silver in the early morning sun. When I first came to Camp Fern, I was on my own. Everyone else had known each other for at least two years, so I was the odd one out. In my cabin there was the usual sort. There was the popular one, the attention seeker, the joker, and the one you love to hate.…
We woke up on June 3rd and hit the road again. We were going to try and make it as far as we could today. We made plans to meet up with my dad, grandma, aunt, and brother in Minneapolis, or somewhere close to, for lunch. My dad had been in Minneapolis the previous days, and wanted to see me before I was gone. We met up at a restaurant called Doolittles.…
Throughout my life, I have been the victim of several burglaries. At the age of seven, someone, in broad daylight, broke into our house and shot my dad in the chin. I was displaced to my aunt's house for weeks and missed most of my 1st grade year. When I was seventeen, I walked in on my home being robbed by some local kids. They were upstairs when I came into the house and escaped through a window, but the idea that I could have come home earlier still haunts me.…
It was a cold day in California luckily I was not gonna be there for long. It was the day to go to Oregon to visit some family members. I was going to stay with my great uncle Chris, but the main person that we where visiting was my great grandpa and grandma. On the way up to Oregon my dad was driving most of the way wile my brothers an I where in the back seat of the cars.…
After we had finished breakfast I began to clean up the plates, and that was when my mama had asked me if I was feeling okay because I hadn’t eaten all the much (Usually I would’ve wrecked me some pancakes and bacon.) but I just told her that I wasn’t all that hungry for some reason that morning, but I would save the leftovers for Step Daddy Cade whenever he got up. My mama, then gave me a worried look, but then left the kitchen to grab her purse and car keys wanting to take a trip into the village to pick up some sweet tea, Cokes, and cigarettes for Step Daddy Cade. I continued gathering the dishes and as I did so I heard a meow that sounded like it had come from the other side of the kitchen, near the patio door. It was soon accompanied by the faintest sound of nails taping and being swept down the smooth glass of the door.…
Mother is waiting for me at the door when I arrive home, beaming with pride and excitement to hear about my day. " Oh, Violetta! How did it go? Do you like your team?…
The lake is a long way from here. The walk through the forest is a tiring one, I can feel drops of rain fall down my face as I stumble across the bridge into the forest. My heavy backpack starts to weigh me down. I turn behind me to make sure Kayla has not fallen behind, her face looks like she's ready to keel over and stop, but I have no time to let her. It is becoming dark, and every minute we waste is another minute we are away from home.…
The water had already started to seep through my clothes when I finally realized how cold it had gotten. My cousin next to me was curled up into a ball in an effort to keep warm. The dark clouds continued to rumble above us now our makeshift shelter was beginning to collapse. The downpour of rain didn’t subside, and now all of our gear was soaked.…
We drove all the way to Lewiston on a windy day and put the boat in the water. Little did I know that this fishing trip would get me hooked on fishing and help me get closer with my uncle. I went to my grandma's the night before because she lives closer to my uncle than me. I was getting picked up at 5:30 to go pick up my uncle’s friend then head to Lewiston to launch the boat. We put the boat in the water just to find out that the boat engine wouldn’t start due to a dead battery.…