closest friends Don, Miz, and Ahmed. This trip was special for all of us. We all were excited to go, and we did make reservation for the house and the car a month before the trip We had a rental car and heading to Tennessee. We had snakes in the road as usual, and we took the road after midnight. However, the trip almost took us eleven hours, and when we arrived around twelve at noon, we were so exhausted. The first thing we did is falling to sleep, we woke up at six p.m. then we started to cook…
and loneliness due to missing their family, friends, and home country, they reported higher levels of homesickness than their U.S. counterparts and that homesickness was likely to increase their adjustment problems in the new environment” (Baba and Hosoda). The whole point of traveling to a new country for the first year of college is to experience different cultures and when international students are faced with homesickness they tend to shy away from others. By being able to explore their…
The most important lesson high school teaches females is how to decipher between the useful types of friends you associate with and the piggybackers that do not genuinely care about you. In every clique of gossiping teenagers holds a general variety of friends. Although the individuals themselves are unique, the concept of their friendship is basic and is in every circle of friends. Surprisingly common kinds of friends are true-blue, moochers, episodic, and party girls. Every high school girl…
Reality of High School As you go through life, people in this world make many mistakes but also learn tons of lessons. Some don’t mature fast enough to know they’ve made mistakes and some are taught a lesson but have never actually learned it. Luckily, I had a major reality check in February of last year causing me to realize that the importance of high school is figuring out the type of person you want to be. Every girl knows the story or the movie of the popular girl in school that every…
day, I woke up, got ready for school, ate breakfast and left to meet my best friends Jamie and Christine so we can walk to school together. What I didn’t know is in a split second my life would change my life forever. The memories of that day are still a little fuzzy, it feels like mini clips from a movie. I remember it was cloudy and drizzling on that day. I was walking along talking to my friends. Then stopping at a busy intersection waiting for the light to change. I remember my friend…
brave girl who is extremely observant, who has great compassion for others and is also very loyal. These traits help her juggle the events that unfold around her and her friends on Halloween one year. People might notice that something is out of place but not say anything, disregard…
The people we surround ourselves with help mold us into the people we will become; these people are called friends. They bring a lifetime of irreplaceable laughter and sadness that one could not live without. The situational comedy, Friends, gave viewers in the 1990s an image of “true” friendship. Set in New York, Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Joey (Matt Leblanc), Chandler (Matthew Perry), Ross (David Schwimmer), and Monica (Courteney Cox Arquette) are a group of six friends…
As a leader is it important to know and own up to your strengths and weaknesses. Armed with this information one can build up their strengths and work towards eliminating their weaknesses. For myself, I asked friends to verify what my strengths and weaknesses are. This is what we agreed upon: my strengths include being personable and friendly, and a good listener; for my weaknesses I do not know when to say no, and my use of sarcasm may offend people who do not know me well. There are a few…
Our parents tell us constantly that the people with the biggest impact on us is our friends. High school is split into different groups of people; you have the jocks, the brainiacs, and the kids who don’t care about anything. Who are we kidding, there are none of those kinds of people in Alpena High School, everyone here loves school! If we have all these different groups of people to choose from, how do we know which groups are the right ones? The people that you spend a majority of your time…
us try to remember that our school is a family, and if one of us is struggling, then we are all struggling. TM Landry is filled with young kids talking about what colleges they want to attend when they grow up. Seeing how such young kids have high goals makes me want to help them achieve theirs like my instructors are helping me achieve mine. My work ethic has improved tremendously since I began at TM Landry. Attending TM Landry has made me realize that working hard now may guarantee you…