I grew up in Dupree in an old white and yellow trailer house near Main Street. I lived there for five years until I have moved out in the country. I lived out in the country for a year and a half roughly. I moved back into Dupree in a tan trailer house near the school for six years until my grandmother got a new white trailer house. I am currently living there since seventh grade.…
I grew up in Arabi, Louisiana. I was nine years when we moved there. I was born in New Orleans, and Arabi was a good place to bring kids up because it was a new area. The reason why we went to Arabi was because my daddy was working for box company in the city, and he got a job at Kaiser Aluminum. Kaiser Aluminum is what built Arabi to what it is today.…
I grew up with my parents Pedro and Elica and my siblings Mike, Philip,John,Pam in Tucson,Arizona. I was very fortunate to live in a good neighborhood and have bikes/cars growing up. I grew up not having to chores, so i was always reading or swimming in the pool. I went to St. John's Grade 1-8 from my early years of school. When my brother had just started school he was always afraid, so I was called out of class…
Growing up as the youngest child in the family size of 8 siblings. I’m the only girl with 6 Brothers. And my Dad and Mom. I grew up with mostly all males. I was always picked on from my brother’s.…
I grew up in a place where the neighbors lived a mile away, the animals ran loose all the time, and if you really felt like it, you could walk outside naked and nobody could really see you. It was a small town where everybody knew everybody; when driving down the road, you knew who was in the car passing you, and by the off chance you didn't, you still waved anyways. Going to the local gas station for a soda or to fill up the truck turned into a trip to go see your friends and visit. The family lived right around the corner, and bonfires were a regular thing. "Sedgewickville Population: 173" is what the town's sign said.…
When I was 9-10 years old I lived with my mom, dad, and sister in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania. Lake Ariel was a small town where all you would see is corn, fields, and woods. We had lived in this house for two years and I had a good group of friends that I had met from school or extracurricular activities. I attended Western Wayne Hamlin elementary school and was in fourth grade. The school district was huge, covering six townships, but my school was small.…
In the summer we would play on our large patio, jump rope, house and 4-square. I lived there with my mom and sister, but we moved because my mom was selling narcotics and the police raided the house. My mom became incarcerated and that forced us to move to Alabama and live with my grandma’s family. I was very unhappy. I hated every minute…
Like all children all I ever wanted was to be big and do big people things. I engaged in a few family members that I would look up to and try everything they did. I use to pretend to go grocery shopping and being a parent at times. At the age of eight, I had worn the worst pain ever and that was watching my five, year old brother getting hit by a car while trying to cross the street riding a bicycle that had a loose chain. I remember him trying to get up and get to me, but a few adults that had witnessed the accident had told him to lay down.…
When I went to my dad’s house which was most of the time my uncle Leonard's or Aunes moms house, We would always be with my cousins and we would always be up late. It would always be fun because my dad’s side of the family is so loud and there would always be music running throughout the house. Me and my dad always played cards in the kitchen and when me and him won we would dance around the table and sing “we are the champions”, I also remember when I went to his house I would always stand on his feet in the kitchen and we would…
It is 2014, I am 14 and it’s 5:00 am on a Saturday morning, I am just waking up to go to NEIBA (Northeast Iowa Band Association). 9 other band members will be going too. We have all been selected to participate in the 8th grade honor band. This is not the first time that I have gone to one of these associations.…
I've always moved around so I couldn't get to know anyone. I've never had a boyfriend, a best friend, a pet. My dad was in the Navy so we had to move a lot. I've been all 50 of the states and I'm only 16. But this time we are moving to a different country, Australia.…
Life is an amazing thing just like Jeannette Walls’ in The Glass Castle. Add a sentence about her hardships. People are awesome and we do many great things in life. Some of us go onto making and creating amazing inventions and other gadgets. Some of us go onto doing heroic things with our life.…
Even though Newark has a bad name with negative stereotypes it’s my home. In Newark, New Jersey I was born, went to school, made friends, and learned a lot. I was born to huge family where I grew up in the known most dangerous town in Newark, New Community. This same town is where my family grew up as well. The neighborhood was so bad my mother never allowed me to play outside.…
I was scared. It wasn’t my first time in a emergency room getting stitches but it was the first time that i saw all that blood. I was getting light headed with my grandma telling me not close my eyes. I thought she was exaggerating like she always does…
Do you know how it feels to be here, in this world, without a reason? I do. CRAZY!! You're now thinking exactly that of me, but what I have lived nobody does it. People had told me go to church, believe in God, but I thought he wouldn't change everything.…