always striving towards adulthood, it can be hard to tell when it is actually happening. There are, however, those moments or achievements significant enough that you can feel the shift in yourself from childhood to adulthood. I experienced one of these moments when I went on a service trip to the Dominican Republic last summer. The service trip helped me to mature by pushing me outside my comfort zone through language barriers, demanding physical labor, and cultural differences. I had to…
patients rooms for them to borrow and enjoy. I was able to witness many happy moments, but I also saw a lot of sad families and heard heartbreaking conversations. One was a doctor informing a family that their child would die within the week. I can remember their faces as if they were standing in front of me today. Their tear stained faces and clothing…
The time when I was the happiest was when I became a Bronze medalist at the 2016 Cheerleading Worlds. All season we worked non-stop making things perfect and just putting the final touches on our routine. But it was also one of the saddest moments because I spent 10 years of my life into this sport and it all comes to an end in two weeks. Me and my team Super Seniors would practice every single day for 3-4 hours at a time till we left for Disney. Every time at practice our coach told us “Stop…
She defines her early childhood when she was at Captain Williams’s house as “the happiest period of my life: for I was too young to understand rightly my condition as a slave.” She was happy with her younger master, even she was a child, but her master treated her well. Other wise she would have described her childhood as a harsh moment of her life. Mr. Captain William is a good master. There were bad slave master where she got beaten and wiped by them. In an example…
High school, a place where you discover who you are. A time when you find out the endless possibilities of who you can become. I on the other hand, began my journey into adulthood looking through the opposite end of the spectrum. I began to feel like I was nothing more than a lost cause, like a bag floating endlessly in the wind. Freshman year was a rough time for me both intellectually and socially. I had struggled with trying to find new friends. Because of this, I also had struggled with…
sees the beauty in everything, and the best in everyone. In the time that we have been together as friends and more, there has never been a moment where I would want to be anywhere but by your side. When I am with you I feel complete, like I was meant to be here, meant to be with you. Like you were meant to make me smile till my mouth hurt, and hug you till my arms ached. I can remember the excitement that I felt when we first kissed. The rush and joy that came with it. I may not have…
I have thought of my purpose for as long as I can remember, because when I was a kid I faced many difficulties. I cannot remember a time when my parents were not fighting, or a time when my dad was there when I needed him. When I was a kid, my parents went through a messy divorce, and shortly after that, my dad disappeared from my life. He lived only twenty minutes away, but whenever I had had an event those twenty minutes may have been on another planet. My mom stayed at home for the first…
Since childhood, I waited all year for December to arrive, because I was free from school, and family would come over to my house. My aunts and mom would cook together and prepared the grandest dinner of the year. One bite of that Christmas meal filled me with joy. December 24th of 2010 was the last Christmas Eve dinner that I celebrated with my entire family in the Dominican Republic before I moved permanently to the United States. I remember it like it was today. The sweet and sour aroma from…
meant a brutal slaughter of families and the innocent. Our once-packed house was bargained empty just to ensure my sister and I had a better chance to a better life, a new beginning to our biased, unfair lives. We begged for them to come with…
Windsor. I had a very tough childhood because of problematic and alcoholic parents. My teen years weren’t so good either. I got kicked out of my parents’ house when I was sixteen years old. When my parents kicked me out of their house, I moved in with my boyfriend with whom I had a son named Emmanuel. In my early adulthood things started to change. I always knew I wanted to have an education, but I couldn’t because of my legal status. In 2012, president Obama, passed the Development, Relief, and…