One Saturday afternoon me and my friend maddie were sitting on my trampoline with popsicles and thinking of something to do. We then decided to go into the front yard and ride our hoverboards. So, we grabbed a couple of our other friends and rode around for a while. We played a couple of games on the hoverboards like football and baseball and had a couple of races too.…
574 The Holy Spirit is teaching me how to teach and preach with inspiration and anointing, and what 575 to do and what not to do to flow with the Holy Spirit. Sometimes there is more inspiration and 576 anointing and sometimes less. I am really in a learning experience. 577 About three o’clock, Barbara and I went down to the ocean to go swimming, but when we got 578 there one of the boys was on the beach fishing, so we watched. He had a long stick (about seven feet 579 long) with several sharp prongs on the end like a pitchfork, and with this he was spearing some small 580 fish.…
Normally I don't do anything on Labor Day weekend. I usually just stay at the house with my family, however; this Labor Day weekend I went to Six Flags for the first time in years with my best friend. After school Friday, we headed to Illinois. We stayed at a water park hotel? I'm not completely sure what it technically called.…
Growing up in Brooklyn, in the early 90’s was one of the best experiences in my life. I remember the ice cream trucks, corner stores, fire hydrates being opened for the kids especially when there was a block party but most of all, the unity of families and neighbors. Many people will say “Brooklyn, only the strong survive” and I have lived by that phrase my entire life. It showed me the beauty of living in one of the boroughs that makes up New York City and has taught me to be a strong person. It’s not made for the weak.…
The anticipation of the big wooden gates opening was tense. This was the last day in Iowa and I was getting to spend it with my friend Abigail Snyder we’ve friends since kindergarten. A girl in a bright green swimsuit and a name tag opened the wooden gate gave us our wristbands and let us in. As soon as we stepped in we smelled the very pungent chlorine.…
Who Inspires Me? One time I almost drowned in the wave pool at Sea World but my mom helped me. What had happened was that my mom was watching my brother, at this time he was about two or three years old and I was about nine or ten years old but i didn’t know how to swim.…
Going To Florida We went to Florida on the 30th of April. My mom, step dad, and my best friend Sasha came. Sasha has brown hair, brown eyes, and she’s 14 years old. I was 13 at the time. As soon as we got to our hotel we unpacked.…
I'll always remember the time my brother and I got lost at Hershey Park. My grandparents decided it would be fun to take my parents, my brothers, and me to Hershey Park, so they invited us to go with them, which we decided we would go with them. I was only 10 at the time and had visited Hershey Park a few times before then so I knew my way around, but there was a new part of the park called the Boardwalk that I didn't know my way around. Me and my brothers thought I would be fun to see the Boardwalk because it was brand new. The Boardwalk area was awesome!…
I was in a deep sleep dreaming about my life until BOOM, my mom came in and told me to wake up. I was walking to the bathroom like a zombie to the bathroom brushing my teeth, taking a shower, and changing my clothes. We had to get to the airport as quickly as possible, because our flight leaves at five o’clock in the morning. Even though I was mad doing this I still enjoyed it because we were on our way to Florida!!This is great practice because one day I will have to do this again.…
Florida This is when I went to Florida. When I went to Florida we go see family out there a lot. So sometimes we stay in their house which is on the ocean! At 5 o'clock we see dolphins swim it is really cool.…
Summer was the time for teenagers to explore , learn new things and grow a little. For me, my summer did not consist of any of those, yet included regret and memories I would like to forget. Although, the vacation we took to Niagara Hotel as a family started off on a good note. I kicked my shoes off and laid flat on my bed. The bed in the suite was so luxurious , the covers were Egyptian silk which easily clinged onto my skin.…
I sat down by myself and reflected. After tens of thousands of hours of devotion, swimming has become a huge part of who I am, and will no doubt shape the person I will come to be. One of the earliest lessons swimming taught me was to never give up. When I was 9, swimming taught me to fight the fatigue during lap two of a race. When I was twelve, swimming taught me to attack race two with everything I had, even if race one hadn't gone my way.…
It was a cold winter day in 2010 I was a seven year old little girl who wanted to play with her sister Sarah. The thing was Sarah was going outside to sled with her friends. So I went out with her. I was terrified of this hill, because I was seven the hill looked huge but , there was a small jump at the bottom of the hill.…
The first time I went off a high dive. It was my birthday party. I told my family it felt exhilarating. It was so much fun I did it some more. Every time it was always exhilarating.…
The fall of sophomore year I decided to join the high school swim team. I knew it would be a lot of hard work to stay on the team but was willing to put in the extra effort. Since I was new to competitive swimming I started off swimming in the “easiest” events. These included the 50 meter and the 100 meter freestyle. Eventually I became a substitute swimmer that would go in whatever event needed another Hobart representative.…