How I Spent My Summer Vacation Essay

When most people find out that my mom grew up in Papua New Guinea, an Oceanian country above Australia, they look confused. I imagine a thought similar to a famous Mean Girls quote pops into their head: “If your mom’s from Papua New Guinea, why is she white?” But of course, you can’t just ask people why they’re white. So, to lessen their confusion, I immediately explain how my grandpa, Robert “Robin” Thurman, and his wife, Ruth, moved to PNG with their two daughters to work as missionaries.…

Matter I was born to father working in electronics company and a mother working in local insurance company. I have hard time recalling my early days of my life. But I do remember that my parents loved to take pictures. Even to this day I see numerous pictures my mother had taken. I do not have a clear memory when I was an infant but I do remember where our family went. One place I remember is local public park. This park had lots of flowers during spring so my mother enjoyed to take my picture…

As a junior in high school I created my own pet service business, Pennies For Puppies, in which I provide services such as dog walking, pet sitting while owners are on vacation, and letting dogs out or entertaining them while owners are at work; I donated all the money I earned to the Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley animal shelter, the only no-kill animal shelter in my area, after falling in love with the animals there. I originally created the business to fulfill the requirements of a…

Through out the years, I have been through many memorable moments with my family, one particularly memorable was our trip to Vietnam during the summer holidays. Not too long ago, I went to Vietnam for a month long trip. Since I had been to Vietnam once before as a child, I did not expect much. Rather, I expected the worst. The weather on my first day there did nothing to bolster my spirits, but instead, cast a gloomy shadow. Due to the inclement weather, the flight was delayed by almost an hour.…

Hearing my mother’s voice waking me up at 5 o’clock in the morning during my summer vacation was not always my cup of tea. This was supposed to be my time to sleep in and enjoy not going to school. However, my mother insisted that I was not allowed to stay at the house--no matter how much I begged and pleaded. During the summer my mother had to go off to work everyday while my father would work around the farm. Every summer I spent the entirety of my time helping my father out on the farm. He…

source being Dr. Matthew Lynch. The use of the ethos, that is the use of information from a doctor within this field, is particularly effective to show why the year-round calendar has its advantages including “preventing summer learning loss” and kids “don 't have enough to do in the summer”. The…

mountains, surrounded by looming trees and deafening insects—this was how I spent a week of my life. I spent a moment of my 2014 summer in Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains with my family. The best part of the trip was the cabin with all its flaws and excitements. Homesickness was absent due to the coziness of our cabin called City Bear. From the moment we arrived, the design of the cabin, with its gadgets and the view all around us, took my breath away. Our car bumped along the gravel road up to the…

will do in June, July, and August. S. Gershenson from the American University decided to do some research on time use of grade school aged children with sub-groups of household income, and parental education level. Gershenson wrote the article Do Summer Time-Use Gaps vary by Socioeconomic Status in the American Educational Research Journal in 2013 outlining the prior research on similar subjects, his research and methods, and his conclusions and results of his findings. Gershenson did a lot of…

throughout elementary school, I always knew my parents would eventually get a divorce. I had always known my parents were going to get a divorce. When the day came at the beginning of sixth grade, my parents sat me down and told me that they were getting a divorce. At the time, I didn’t really know what to expect, but I didn’t let it bother me. Going throughout middle school and high school, having divorced parents disrupted my plans, gave me 2 homes, and I went down a path that I would have not…

Mid-summer 2014, my family and I spent two weeks in Costa Rica. It was a vacation filled with many unforgettable memories, and was without a doubt the highlight of my break. We did so much that trip, I can’t even recall all of the places we went and things we did. However, there was one event I could never forget, no matter how much I try. Costa was exhilarating from the start despite all of the plane rides we had to take to get there. In only a matter of days, we had gone surfing, snorkeling,…