Pacing back and forth, I pondered how our volleyball fundraiser was going to stay afloat. The council was distraught, unable to acquire more teams, with the tournament in two days. With our advisors and the vice principal leaning towards canceling the event, my council had two choices: get eight more teams to sign up or call off the event. I didn’t want to cancel because I knew that as Junior and Senior year approached, we needed more money to fund our proms and class trips.…
Pic-Six Let me set the scene; it was a particularly nice day in October and we were having our annual panthers “pink game”. This was to raise breast cancer awareness. After being out for 3 games due to a concussion, I was really looking forward to this game because it was my first game back. One thing that is pretty important to note, We were playing the best team in our league. The Dekalb Bengals.…
The speaker from PreMedical Ms.Schnarre, I was not interested in any of the things that this major had to offer. I have never been interested in PreMedical. Will probably not want to pursue any kind of job in this of work. Even though the opportunities seem interesting, the money was with my interest. I would not want to take a different direction that I am already headed.…
I have not been thinking differently but I am surely endeavoring. I have an arduous time changing things about myself so at this point I am just gradually endeavoring. After reading these two chapters I endeavor to disunite my emotions from my thinking due to the fact that they incline to get me into an abundance of trouble. Prior to making decisions, I stop and notice first if I am allowing my emotions to get in the way. I ascertain no emotions are tied to my decisions just so at the end I get a good outcome.…
3 Stressful Things Attending college is usually the most exciting but yet eye opening experience at the same time in a person life. It is a transition from being a child to becoming an adult and learning how to survive in the real world. Even though this is my second year in college and it has been going well that transition has cause good amount of stress in my life. The three major stressful things in my life that I notice since attending college is managing my time, managing money, and having a good relationship with others.…
When I was younger, I always kept a book by me. Books accompanied me everywhere, to the mall and to my relatives houses. I was called a bookworm, and still called it today. I’ve read books, and collected them. I have over 100 books in my room, and have a library in my house.…
At the age of twenty, what girl would even think about her boyfriend proposing? I know that every girl dreams of her wedding day, how it would look, and the way it would turn out. Planning a wedding is not an easy task like everyone thinks it is. Planning my wedding involved three main things; the date for the wedding, the type of dress that I would wear, last but not least, would be the type of venue I was going to have. Another main important thing is, where it would take place.…
My Personal Journey "Listen to what I say, my companions, though you are suffering evils. All deaths are detestable for wretched mortals, but hunger is the sorriest way to die and encounter fate. "(Odyssey book 3) Circe is referring to Skylla, a monster, in this quote. But, she makes a point.…
My vision started to fail on mile four of the six-mile hike. Small white specks flickered across my field of vision. The next thing to go was my hearing, followed by my ability to walk in a straight line. My platoon sergeant saw the signs of heat stroke and forced me to stop. I should have stopped myself, but all I could think was: you will finish this, or you will die trying.…
Personal Memoir, Near the end of my sophomore year me and my three friends wanted to go on an adventure and explore the school. And we did, It was near the end of track season me and my friend caleb where in the locker room our friend brian walks in and says he got and A key( one key opens every door in the school) So i said let's go and check out the hidden class room above the gym rafters. And us being curious boys didn't disagree and didn't think about the consequences of our actions. Lets wait for nick, I said, once nick got to the locker room we all went into the gym and opened up the door that leads to the ladder to get up to the rafters.…
Memoir Before For many years of my life, I wanted to be a baker. I fell in love with the idea of turning my hobby into a full-time career and owning my own bakery. All I watched on TV was Cake Boss and Cupcake Wars, and all I wanted to do when I got home from school was bake.…
Memoir “Oww!” I screamed when I bumped my toe against our wooden steps. When I looked down at my toe it was gushing out blood. As I walked up the stairs I was making blood footprints. “Put on a bandaid” my mother yelled.…
In my memoir I tell the story about the time I break my foot for the first time. I structured my memoir as a flashback. By wearing high heals, and I tripped. I hope by the end of my memoir you know this moment is signicant to me because it’s the first time wearing heals, and also the first time breaking my foot. It really stands out to me because I have broken a lot of my bones, and I this one sticks out because it was for my 8th grade formal.…
At a younger age, I would say I believed that I can only trust myself and my mother, this is because as a little kid my mom would always tell me that there are bad people in the world and that giving them any information about anything can be very harmful. But as I grew up and realized what was actually happening in my country I knew there were millions of others that were suffering against the “bad people” and we could only do something about it if the whole community came together to help. It was at that time when I was about 25, when I started to put some effort into trying to establish more just conditions within my country especially after the implication of extremely high food prices. This is when I started my first strike involving my…
My Memoir “Come on Savannah just let me read my book to you, it won't take very long. It will help me become a better writer”, my sister proclaimed. “Cheyanne I don't want you to read me your book. You know that I don't like books, so stop trying ”, I yelled as I slammed my door.…