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coached from the previous basketball season. Terry was always a friendly and outgoing kind of person. Midway through the season, Terry started showing up late and even missing some practices. When he did show up to practices, to me, something seemed a bit off. Terry became less talkative and distant from his teammates. It was very uncharacteristic of him. I tried asking him how he was doing and if anything was bothering him. He denied anything was wrong. A couple weeks later Terry showed up to…

throat and start stating facts about me. It was extremely awkward at first because I’m telling random & personal things about myself to this boy who I spilled my tea earlier I barely know, but then he made it less unwieldy. I slowly opened up to him bit by bit – His voice and accent was just so comforting & shockingly amusing at the same time. Plus, he was so into my story about the most embarrassing moment at my high school in Grand Rapids. So this is basically what happened: Last year,…

winter cold or summer heat is a smart decision for anyone serious about running. But, which treadmill should the serious runner buy? A non folding treadmill will be the best bet for anybody who regularly runs. While a folding treadmill can save a bit of space, it is of no help to be continually pulling it out every day to run, in addition to its clear deficiencies to a non folding treadmill. A non folding treadmill will naturally have a sturdier deck and frame, along with a longer and wider…

Shining Library Book Me and classmates were told that we had to do something nice for the school. It wasn’t just our grade, it was the whole middle school who had to something. There were tons of jobs to be done just inside the building. When it was nice out, some of the 8th graders would go out and do the things outside, while the rest of us stayed inside. My job was organizing the bookshelf in the library. Unless it was a short week or you were gone most of it, everyone had to do their job…

However, her make-up seemed to be a little bit on the extreme side, but I do not believe this to be a major issue looking at the bigger picture. Third, how the candidate measured up to the others. We have interviewed around 100 candidates and in the end we decided that three were worth…

Traveling the world at a young age can be an exciting thing, but also be very nerve wracking. Imagine the teenage men in the 1960’s, sitting on a cargo plane with a bunch of others, some they knew and some they did not. They traveled across oceans to risk their lives and fight for their country. The entire plane remained silent because the only thing going through people’s minds was if they would be going home again or not. This is how Brucie Potter felt when he was on his way to Vietnam to…

A Night To Remember This was less of a night to remember, and more of a night that is etched into my brain, a night that I try so hard to forget. It never evades my memory, no matter how badly I wish it would. It caused me great pain and worry, but I will always remember it, because it was a sign that I wanted to get better. It was a sign that there was something more inside of me than just those terrible, awful things. This day was a priceless crystal vase slipping out of somebody 's clumsy,…

James Lenze’s speech was good; he seemed to adhere to most of the instructions. His verbal stance wasn’t all that great, he sounded a little like a robot for most of the speech. He could really improve on his non-verbal stance too, because he doesn’t really seem to engage with the audience or move around much. He seemed to be organized at least with the speech though; he has just a little struggle reciting everything back to his audience. The speech seemed to be a longer speech and felt like it…

The explorer conditioning technique (ECT): Treat a new task as a quest for new discoveries. To be able to perform at your peak, you have to love what you are doing. Whether it’s acting, bartending or washing dishes, you have to learn to love what you do. One way to achieve this is to technically act like any explorer would, which is to be thrilled by something new every day (or treat everything as such even when it’s not new). It should be as if each task you were making were coming…

Out of all the trips I’ve been on, the Disney Cruise trip was the absolute best. The ship was Halloween themed so there were bright orange pumpkins everywhere, the characters from Disney were even dressed up and they also played spooky Halloween music. My family and I went at the beginning in October of 2016. We stayed at Cocoa Beach for a night, Disney Cruise and then went to Sea World for a day. We went straight to Seaworld after we got off the ship. The prices were pretty reasonably good for…