Sleepover

“Can I go forward when my heart is here?” (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet). I would have been perfectly content to stay at home for the next 180 days. Waiting for the rusty yellow bus to swing around the corner, my brown hair is getting in my blue eyes. The air is crisp and so are the withered leaves I’m standing on. “Bye honey! Have a great day! Go get em’! Love you!”s travel through the air. I remember reading somewhere that the reason you get so paranoid and exaggerate sometimes is because…

I got up and headed for the kitchen. It was a gray rainy day outside and nothing was stirring. Emunah smiled as she strided in the kitchen after waking up my brother Dean. We were on vacation with my mom and all of my other siblings were at a sleepover with their best friends. “Today is going to be great” Emunah says as we sit down to eat. We all say good morning to Mom but she says nothing back. “Mom?” Dean says “Are you okay?” “It’s just that I have caught a cold in this weather. Go ahead…

As a child, Jason could not handle receiving anything less than what he desired. From wanting sleepovers with Dilsey to being in charge, Jason would cry or tattle if he did not get what he wanted. In “That Evening Sun,” Jason “cried. He cried until mother said he couldn’t have any dessert for three days if he didn’t stop. Then Jason said he would stop…

Becoming a successful author can be quite difficult, but forty-one-year-old Sara Shepard has done just that, and more. I am writing this report to introduce you to Sara Shepard, telling you about her life, and talk about some of her most successful literary works. I chose Sara Shepard because I have read all sixteen novels of her Pretty Little Liars series, along with her three companion novels. The Pretty Little Liars series was developed into a television program on what used to be ABC…

We have made countless memories together, from the endless sleepovers playing round after round of survival on MW3, and our amazing trip to Washington DC, to our crazy adventures at comic con. You have supported me in ways you can not imagine. You’ve defended my insecurities, given me hope in my times of desperation…

My whole life I have questioned why my parents got a divorce. It wasn’t because of lack of money or because they got married young. It was to make my life better. How could divorce ever make a child’s life better? Never having to listen to my parents fight and argue, or see the heartache of the divorce was a huge advantage I had growing up. I have had to deal with a lot of obstacles with this divorce. Such as not knowing who my mother was until I was ten or my mom getting remarried 4 times…

There are few things I know for certain in this world. The sky is blue, everybody dies eventually, and I am gay. My parents were way more accepting of it than I expected. After spending nearly half my life in the closet, I let it slip out one night. Bowling, of all things. You have to understand— I’m the world’s worst bowler. I can’t throw the ball down the middle of the lane to save my life. And so, after yet another toss into the gutter, I turned around and announced to my parents that…

Many people all over the world homeschool their children. Some states are so serious about homeschooling that they are willing to pay you to homeschool your children. I had gone to school up until the first grade. When my mother decided to school us at home, I was overjoyed. It was wonderful from the start to the end. Through the years we learned what worked best for our family and what didn’t work quite as well. Homeschooling is one of the best ways to get an education because it provides fun…

Aside from the adjustment that she had to make when participating in extracurricular activities while maintaining her academic performance, there were a few things that she did when doing her work, that was different than the way we (mainstream American students) interacted with it. I will never forget her mini laptop looking translator! She used it a lot, especially in classes like biology and English, when a lot of the words that were being taught were not words frequently used amongst she and…

Familiarity Familiarity: the security of knowing; close acquaintance with or understanding of something or someone; the quality of being known; the comfort in that which you have already experienced, places you have already been, conversations you have already had; a face you have seen walk by already; movies with known endings; songs that have play over and over so many times that you can turn the song off and still hear it playing in your head. Familiarity has its perks. It’s like home…