Friends to Go

Title A buzz word in society in more recent years has been “community.” We’ve been told that a healthy lifestyle involves community and requires relationship. The television show, Friends points to society’s hunger for this. The show is centered around a group of friends who all live together and share life with each other, on every level. Initially none of the guys or the girls in the group are dating each other, but that quickly changes with the emerging love story of Ross and Rachel and…

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 things that I can do to learn to say no, and to reduce my sarcasm when it comes to new people. When talking to two of my friends I asked them separately what my…

beginning of Baumer 's desensitization to death and loss. Kemmerich, Baumer 's Friend, was wounded and had an amputated leg, he had no chance of survival. Kemmerich was in the hospital when Baumer came to visit him, a couple words were exchanged but Baumer didn’t know what to say, how to console his friend. Although Baumer knew Kemmerich wasn 't going to make it, he couldn 't face the fact that he 'd be losing his friend for good. Baumer didn’t want to diminish all hope that Kemmerich had left,…

unpacking my stuffs from my packages. Kathy, the only friend that I had in the US that time, called me. “Hey Lynn, do you want to join my birthday party this weekend?”, she asked. At that time, I did not neither go to work nor go to school. When she asked me, I unhesitantly agreed because I was feeling bored at home. After hanging the phone up, I was really excited to attend that birthday party because I thought that I would have chance to make more friends and learn more about American culture.…

June 4, 2010, is a day that I will remember forever; it’s a day that taught me to never take life, family, or friends for granted because you never know when something unexpected, bad or good, will happen and impact your life forever. The day started just like every day has for the past month. We started practicing basketball early that morning, with the same routine as always: stretching, running, layups, and splitting up into two teams and playing against each other. Our coach, Coach Joey, was…

Yay… I get to school around 7:45am the time my best friend, who I wish was my girlfriend, Mirabella tries to get here every day but fails miserably. I cannot help but laugh at her disheveled state as she comes off the bus. “Hey Mirabella!” I yell trying to get her attention through the crowd of people.…

I was walking with my friend to class when it happen. Before it happened, I noticed that I had seen no teachers or adults for that matter in the halls. When it happened, there was the sound of a large crash and the whole building shook like there was huge earthquake just under Badger. What happened? At first, I had no idea what happened until I looked out the window then I saw it. A huge glass dome had covered the entire school. Floods of students like moths to light ran outside to see what had…

idea of making a cross for a dead teenager really bothered my dad, but he knew how much it would mean to my friends, Kelly’s family, and me. My dad put the finishing touches on the cross with tears in his eyes and looked at me with pure sympathy. He held up the cross and said, “I hope this will work for now”. When we pounded the cross into the soft ground, my father didn’t even want to go see it. It was the only project he wasn’t proud…

some old friend’s house first and that was the worst part of the trip for me. When we were 20 minutes away my father said “We are going to Rick’s house first to visit them for the meantime, and then we’re going to the buffet restaurant to meet old friends for dinner.” When we arrived, my parents talked to them about the last years they hadn't seen each other and all that kind…

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…