I was ten years ago and I can still vividly remember sitting on an old, wooden rocking chair while the words of The Very Hungry Caterpillar trembled off my lips to a room full of second graders. I can recall the eagerness and excitement that filled their little faces as I flipped from page to page. There was an abundance of curiosity and desire to learn in that classroom that made me happy that I decided on skipping recess to read to the younger students. There was a fire that lit in my ten-year-old body that day. That was the day where I finally had an answer to all the “What do you want to be when you grow up?”…
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.…
I kindly accepted that those people were my siblings. They were all part of my family, but I felt an immense distance. Whitney had her own mother standing by her. My eldest sister and brother shared the same mother, whom I never saw before.…
Pharrell Williams once said that "If you go with fear you will fail. But if you go with faith you will be fine. You are capable of so much". This quote, along with many others written in the margins of my notebooks, exemplifies the emotional battle that is constantly occurring inside my head. I believe that not one single event truly signified the life-long transition from childhood to adulthood in my life, rather my view of the world and those around me changed drastically as I aged.…
In eighth grade, I volunteered every Sunday afternoon at Rosewood nursing home in Joliet. I would help the residents during bingo; I enjoyed helping one resident in particular, her memory and hearing were fading but she was always so happy. She loved my curly hair and would always comment one how, “no one in [her] class ever had black curls so [she] would do everything to get rid of them” and that she wished she would have let her hair be instead of spending years worrying about fitting in. It is said to children everywhere to just be yourself, but there is so much pressure to fit in it is harder to be yourself than to try to fit a mold.…
The little things do not matter to me when it comes to my children getting into trouble. I have a four year old girl, Grace and a two year old girl, Lilliana, so I have encountered numerous times where I just want to rip my head off. One of those times happened to be the other day when I was in the other room getting dressed. I couldn't find anything to wear, of course, so I was taking a while. In the mean time, the girls were out in the other room playing.…
A new kid is at school today. He seems pretty nice, but he’s really quiet. He hasn’t really talked to anyone yet aside from teachers though. He looks a bit angry as well. I didn’t catch his name.…
After reviewing the topic about a child’s brain and how it is the most complex thing on earth. One thing immediately came to mind: Languages. I have been fascinated with how newborns and small children learn languages, and how they can master them just by listening and hearing. I have taught English as a second language for many years, and worked with children who speak multiple languages without diligence. At one point, I was so impressed seeing these children speak them fluently, but then I realized; I went through exactly the same thing.…
My Memoir I remember day that my parents told me I was going to have to move schools, it was a huge turning point in my life and it might not seem like a big deal but it was, and still is, to me. Both my parents are principals at Lincoln County schools so they switch schools periodically. This happened the summer of my first grade and I didn’t understand all of their duties and how the school systems work. It was around June or July at night almost time to go to bed, when my mom told me to stop playing and talk to her for a little bit.…
One of my top secrets in life is about the thing I have accomplished at my age. At the age of 15 I came to the united states of America with my widowed mother and brother trying to seek greener pastures. Back in my home country all the assumptions about a 15-year-old child is to go to school and play around, but my first three months in a foreign land as a 15-year-old boy was a little bit onerous because I was overwhelmed with school work and helping my widowed mother fend for the family. At the age of 16 I had already taken the Illinois CNA state board examination and I passed, I had already been CPR, OSHA, and First Aid Certified, I had done series of internships with the prestigious Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, I…
Last year, I took a chance and ran for vice president of my school’s Student Council. Unfortunately, I lost the election by five votes. Despite losing, it was a valuable experience and I learned a lot about myself in the process.…
Most of the time growing up as a kid I spent it with my oldest brothers. My favorite places I would love to be at as a kid was the alley. I can say that place made up my childhood. The place I enjoyed being at most of the day. It will always help me clear my mind.…
Growing as a child I must say I am grateful all of my needs were met. I Growing up in a small town were my parents had a small rice machine business , my mom use to sell rice whole sale, although we didn’t have a lot but what we had were enough to take care of us. I didn’t really have much problem when it comes to clothed and shelter because my grandmother was a designer and back in the days when you getting married your parents build your house for you, so before my mother got married her parent build her house. One of the struggle we when through was education in some city they didn’t have school for children so my parents has to send us out of the village to where someone else have to take care of use in other for us to get some education.…
I was 11 when I went to my first Halloween party. Fifth grade a major time of growing up for a young girl and I was beginning to know the world was changing for me. For years and years, my parents forced me to watch my little brother and hangout with our neighbors, but this year it was different. I can finally go off on my own with who I wanted to, and I finally get a little taste of freedom.…
At any age, moments of insecurity can reflect times of childhood uncertainty, the expression of identity I was portraying through my theme and blog is that in life when you are younger you wish to be older and sometimes when you're older you wish to be young again. However not in the most positive way, such as wanting to be older because by that time life it could be all figured out, also wanting to be younger to escape a situation where you feel uncertain wanting to be a child again because they most likely wouldn’t be put in that type of situation. “Like some days you might say something stupid, and that's the part of you that's still ten. Or maybe some days you might need to sit on your mama's lap because you're scared, and that's the part…