Dodgeball

“Are you alright, Aarushi?” My mom questioned, she was mortified when she saw me limping across the pale floor, crying to get to her. She briskly ran towards me, along with my dad trying to help me get to the nearest bench. I was crying, my right foot felt like hot, gushing lava, burning from the inside out, constructing everything to feel like a third degree burn. Suddenly, everything in the world turned black. It was five fifty in the evening, cautiously waiting for it to turn six, afterwards…

The active activity is almost always crafting and the active activity is usually some form of dodgeball or capture the flag. From the 20 hours I’ve served, I’ve only seen one boy participate in the passive activity. The youth is limited in what they can do. Larson argues that exploring one’s interests is developmentally beneficial. It shows initiative…

What to do after high school is one of the biggest choices a person will make in their life. This one decision will affect many different aspects of life. For me, I have decided that I want to spend my years after high school going to college to hopefully one day become a doctor. This process will be very long but I am dedicated to accomplishing my goals. Picking the right college for me is essential in me accomplishing these goals. I have narrowed it down to three colleges to choose from:…

Novia was feeling sick to her stomach with such boiling rage and self pity, she was different from everyone else at school and she didn’t need reminded about it. It was a problem she faced every day but back at her old home there was people who accepted it, but now she has to go through the whole process again! Mr and Mrs Stevenson decided to move to Ohio from New York with their three kids Novia, Braxton and their newborn Piper. Novia thought living in New York was hard already especially…

members of the after school program clean up. Following game time, which usually ended in me losing Connect Four or being jumped on, the leader of the program, Mr. Dave, provides the children with three to four options for the day (to go outside time/dodgeball, watch a movie, computer lab, or arts/crafts). However, on occasion there is a group, usually from the college, to teach the kids fun interactive games, while learning about animals or another subject matter. For example, one day an…

Informational Privacy Privacy is an elaborate concept that cannot easily be defined because it entails many categories such as physical privacy, communication privacy, psychological privacy and informational privacy (Castaldo, Premazzi & Grosso, 2013, p.4). Informational privacy’s correlation to social media is the increasing amount of information available to online marketing companies and the continued “dissemination of personal awareness” users face (Castaldo et al., 2013, p.4). Thus, the…

My grandma always said I was the Pied Piper of Sunflower Dr. I would come down fresh off the bus or bright and early in the morning. Riding down on my Mongoose bike to go meet my friends off the bus. I would come riding down and before I could get a word out they would be crawling out and begin to follow me around for the day of playing. Grandma’s house is always a great place to go. You can get food and have a great time. But you can be there too much, especially when you live only a…

To become an Eagle Scout I had to plan and build a community service project, I built a storage shed/shelter in my local dog park, this project, combined with all my previous years in Boy Scouts have taught me the importance of serving one’s community in any way possible. That is part of the reason that I decided to join the Shelburne Volunteer Fire Department and use it as my Graduation Challenge, I wanted to learn skills that would help my community and that would serve me later in life if I…

I dreadfully await my coming fate as we pull into the parking lot, rain droplets violently beating down onto the windshield. I anxiously tap my foot as I wipe my clammy hands onto my nice, sheer, performance dress. “You nervous?” Olivia asked. “Ha,” I scoff sarcastically. “Nervous is an understatement.” “You’ll be fine,” she smiled. “I hope so…” I said lowly. Taking a deep breath, and abruptly opening the car door, we sprint under the overhang and into the building;…

As a member of Hilltop Leaders, I recently took the Gallup Report Strength Finder to find out my signature themes which represent the five most dominant themes of talent I have. In ranking of order, first I am an achiever. An, “achiever describes a constant need for achievement.” My second is learner because, “The subject matter that interests you most will be determined by your other themes and experiences, but whatever the subject, you will always be drawn to the process of learning.” My third…