It was a brisk and chilly morning the birds were chirping I woke up and thought it was going to be a great day and it was until it happened. About 7:00 in the morning just getting up and putting some clothes on and going to eat breakfast. After that i got all of my stuff together put in the back of Tyler's truck then we head out. Then Tyler asked me if i wanted to go to walmart and look at some stuff I said sure let's go so we did when we got there we went to the fishing ile we were walking back and forth up and down the ile. We got our stuff…
“Here we are,” I thought to myself as my parents and I pulled up to a big oak tree in our old, puke colored Subaru. The massive tree overlooked the Boston Harbor and the enormous cruise boats on it. Under the oak stood an assortment of kids and instructors from all over the world. No a one of them knowing what they were about to get their self into.…
In 2011 my family and I took a trip out West in an RV. My family consists of my parents, older brother Patrick ( now a sophomore at Madison), younger brother Declan ( now a sophomore at MUHS), and my younger sister Nora ( now in 8th grade). We were all there for this trip just younger. On our trip one of the main attractions we stopped at for a few days was at the Grand Teton National Park in Jackson Hole Wyoming. The Tetons are a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming.…
On a small island in the caribbean. There is a man. A man that is evil in every way. His prey is others. His name is General Zaroff.…
As I peered down the bluff, I saw the magnificent black-and-white beasts breach the water of the Salish Sea. The L-pod resident orcas were gliding past Henry Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. This sight reminded me why I was in the San Juans in the first place: to appreciate nature and do my part to protect it. I finally got to experience these natural beauties that I had heard oh-so-much about from the locals. The sea breeze flowed onto my face, and I appreciated the wonder of it all.…
The cold air slammed into my face as I exited the long forgotten warmth of the helicopter. I hugged myself in an effort to stay warm, but the Alaskan weather had another idea. Small flurries of snow began to float around me and delicately placed themselves in my hair. I'm finally here... Shadow Moses Island.…
The next day, my legs were tired but that didn’t prevent me from having an enjoyable day. First we went to the Staten Island Ferry where we rode a ferry past the Statue of Liberty. The ferry was full of people but there were three floors to fit everyone on. It also moved surprisingly fast for such a sizeable boat. The next site on the agenda was to visit Grand Central Station, a rapidly fast train station that carries people from all over the country to and from New York.…
The Hatch Marcy and I were leaving to go to the movies. I grabbed my warmest coat from my closet and we got on our way. Marcy was talking about the movie when we pulled into our apartment parking lot. We saw when we pulled in that our door was wide open like all the way. This startled us because we were both positive we closed it.…
I moved myself out to South Bass Island in the middle of Lake Erie. For six months out of the year South Bass Island is a major tourist spot. I hadn’t intended to work there, I had gone to take time to myself to be able to write, but was quickly recruited. Those bartending skills I mentioned before? Yeah...…
In the first few weeks of my father’s senior year in high school he was called into the principal’s office and he was told, “Mr. Bragdon, if you don’t start showing up for school I am going to expel you.” See at the time, dad’s single mother of four was struggling to pay the bills, which meant he needed to do whatever he could to supply the family with an additional income. So he went lobstering. In response to the principal, the very next day dad walked into his office and set down on his desk a stack of books and his check from that week. He then looked at the principal and said “Sir, I believe I just made more in one week than you will in the next two months.…
As I said “goodbye” to Johns Creek, I began venturing on a new journey. I would have slept on the long 8-hour expedition if not for the spectacular books that we had brought on the trip. As I grabbed the first book, it was like winning the best of the best. The book could keep someone busy for an entire 3 hours. The experience was as if the book was talking to me.…
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.…
Sitting under dark blue sky getting the whiff of freshly mowed grass was enchanting looking back trying to figure out where I went wrong ‘Why did he do this to me? How could I be so naive? He knew from the beginning that all I ever wanted was the truth’. My palace under the stars was almost like I could reach up and grab them, it hypnotized me. I was talking to one of my really good friends, Miriam, late at night just sitting on the queen size bed in my room.…
Previous to this he had heard three gunshots in the distance and makes the decision to swim in that general direction. Soon he discovers land on what is presumed by the reader to be “Ship Trap Island”. He begins to explore the unknown island in search of civilization. After a brief search he locates a large gothic mansion. He enters the mansion under consent of General Zaroff, a cossack general.…
“I am a United States Sailor.” Upon reflection, I have realized what this truly means: not only in a general sense, but for me personally as well. Ultimately, it translates to mean that I belong to the most distinguished and respected military power in the history of the world. This is not to be taken lightly.…