Happy Birthday to You

situations in my past I wish I could forget too, but I cannot. The worst events in my childhood I have determined to forgive, otherwise, I could not live on. I remember my early childhood just as it was yesterday. It is engraved in my mind. I believe my birthday was the start of a miraculous life. There was the beginning of difficult experiences but God was always with me. I learned I was born on Saturday, and this was…

teenager who lived in the 80s. Her style does not change until a few days later, when she clearly understands what had happened to her lately. The film also uses the playlist of old time music such as Thriller, Love is a Battlefield or Crazy for You as the film’s soundtracks. Those songs are used not only because they were the favorite ones in that decade, but also because of their lyrics, whose meanings are similar to the situations of the film; they enhance the atmosphere and set the theme…

As if the more work you can balance the better person you are. I am guilty of this, I try exceedingly hard to be involved in everything. In highschool I bragged about all the extra work I had on my shoulders. I was a highly involved student, participating in ten extra curricular activities…

I’m an avid reader of Meg Kimball Advice Avengers series and I was so happy when my friend got it for me as my birthday present.Andi make a Wish! by Meg Kimball will be the 5th installment inside the Advice Avengers line. The other four parts were published as the novel Forever twelve. Since I loved Forever Twelve, the new entry in this kind of Young Adult line caught my attention.From the first page to the last page, I was not surprised because I knew that I would enjoy the journey, getting to…

really long week. Daniela had insisted on throwing me a huge birthday party, which I told her I didn't need, but she went ahead and did it anyway. It was a really nice party, the best one I've been to in years, but it was very stressful to put together. There were too many people to invite, too many plans to make, and too much food to order. Now, luckily, all of that was over and we could get back to our normal work. "Hey…

Making up more 13% of the entire population of the United States, African Americans therefore, play a significant role in shaping the American life style. Although the days of slavery and racism against black people is considered history, African Americans are still experiencing some type of discrimination against them. The most important type to discuss here is the overrepresentation of African Americans students in special education classes as a result of faulty assessment (Roseberry-McKibbin,…

Physical labor is not my forté. I’m the embodiment of the stereotypical female - in no way am I even remotely strong or capable of manual labor. So you can imagine how useful I was going to be on a weeklong mission trip in Kentucky fixing a house. An actual, real-life house. There was no way I was going to be any help at all, but I wanted to try...sort of. Part of me wanted to go but another part of me really, really did not. I do not enjoy working, nor do I like traveling outside of…

playing an intense soccer match with my cousins and neighbors, while playing I see the whole neighborhood, having fun, hearing a baby next door cry while smelling the vomit that was on the floor with a smirk on my face. I take a shot on the goal and all you hear echo is BOOM!! The neighborhood and I started celebrating because of how good that shot was, but I decided to get bottles of water for my friends because they looked thirsty while dripping in sweat. I run on the rough gravel feeling the…

family for the first time this weekend for his 25th birthday. He had never talked much about them, I would ask and he would tell me as little as possible then change the subject. He seemed to hate, not the hate like I want them to die or anything just like he resented them for making him do something he never wanted to do. He always told me “you don’t need to worry about meeting them Ivy they mean nothing to me so they shouldn 't mean anything to you.” All I really knew about them was they were…

things for my birthday. Third grade with Ms. Dyn, now Mrs. Markoski, trying to get a jar full of marbles for a fun pizza party. In Fourth grade, with Mrs. Venker, all her tricks for teaching us all 50 states. In Fifth grade with Mrs. Oberkirsch, learning about Mesopotamia, with her lovely…