Catch Me If You Can

As a child, I was always surrounded by encouraging words from family members, close friends, and church members. They always ensured me "You can be anything that at you want to be." But now that I'm a senior in highschool,I’ve come to realize that the statement comes with terms of conditions attached. People don't actually believe this to be true; they loosely throw around the statement without actually reading first. It wasn't until my High School career that I read the terms of conditions. By…

We finally got to the road, It was an old trail that was nothing but sharp lava rocks. The only way you can access this place is if you have a lifted truck with four wheel drive. My friend josiah looked at me and asked “ wat you tink goin’ make um? “ I told looked at him and nodded my head saying “ guarantee we goin make um “. When driving on that type of terrain your vehicle tends to slip and lose its traction…

“Who are you and what are you doing here?” Rainsford stutters. “My name is Wilus and my twin brother, General Zaroff locked me in this cell years ago, he's always hated me because our dad always said I was the better hunter.” Says Wilus “But who are you?” I’m Rainsford, and I hate to break it to you but I killed your brother in “The Game”. “Figures, I knew this game would catch up to him one day,” says Wilus “Now that he's gone please let me out.” “How do I know I can trust you when I let you…

“Runners to your marks”. I take two strides forward along with all the other runners that will be trying to outrun me, as I am trying to do the same. Standing out in the hot baking sun my heart pounds violently in my chest, my breath becomes deeper to calm my nerves that flood my brain, beads of sweat run down my sun baked face and plummet to the ground. Walking up to the waterfall line, I hear nothing but my heart pounding in my ears like two timpani’s in an instrumental band. Then the race…

dad, grandpa, Kevin, Buck, and his son. The ride was terrible, but when we got there it was worth it. On the way there we decided to make bets. There was the biggest fish and most unique catch and the winner got ten dollars. The cabins were green and yellow and it felt like home, but we had to lock are trash cans because there are a lot of bears at the campsite so we had to lock them for our safety. I couldn’t wait to go fishing. We first had to unpack then put my grandpa’s boat in the water and…

distract me, and the second thing that distracts me is I don 't really understand what the professor is saying. The third thing is my family. I 'm easily distracted by small things. I promise myself every time that I will turn off my phone while I’m studying or trying to do my homework, but I turn around and look at my phone and and my messages. The second reason why I 'm easily distracted is I don 't understand what the teacher is talking about when she teach she goes really fast and I can 't…

YOU ARE NOT ALONE A grown man or woman being torn to pieces over a relationship gone bad, yes that happens all the time. Only you know the reasons why your relationship has hit the skids, but I know it is especially painful when it is something that you may have done to help cause the break up. How can this be happening to me? I can’t eat, I can’t sleep and I am unable to concentrate at work. When will this ever end? I would rather have someone break one of my legs because at least I know…

big lesson that stuck out to me from the story was that in life, race, weight, gender, or anything “different” about a person shouldn’t cause them to be exiled from a community or a group. This stuck with me because I have been discriminated against throughout my life on numerous occasions. In the book, The Sneetches the group that is exiled is the Plain-Belly Sneetches. This is like when you get into High School, everyone has been…

Cultural Identity Do you celebrate any holidays almost the same way each year? In my case, I celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas day the same way once a year. It is a time that I get to see and spend time with many members of my family that I do not usually get to see any other time of the year. I really enjoy Christmas Eve and Christmas day for this reason. It is my favorite time of the year and to top it off, in my opinion, waking up to snow covering the ground on Christmas is the best…

our time to depart to a day with the fish. It all happens like clockwork. There are many aspects of my time in Port Mansfield that I love dearly. One that tops many is the initial trip out to the water. In this moment, it is solely me, the boat, and the water below me. Every time that I am aboard the Shallow Sport heading to the first fishing spot of the day there is a moment where all the problems that I face on land are washed into oblivion and I become engrossed in God’s creation and the…