The Best Years

chair with an “I’m the best” look on his face. I really do not like Arnold. Arnold looked alot like the boy from the Magic School Bus. I try just as hard as he does, maybe even harder and he always ends up with the best overall grade in the class. The last day of every year in elementary school, the students were handed their yearly report cards. My grades did not interest me at all as a 2nd grader. What mattered to me most was not my grades, but my reading level. Every year all of the students…

colors which converts into beautiful customs, calypso and steel pan music, different forms of dancing, foods, and Caribbean style arts that fascinates thousands of people from many different parts of the world. Trinidad and Tobago carnival is a once a year event with a combination of many different activities. The main purpose of the carnival is to reveal their culture and way of life by bringing everyone together. Trinidad and Tobago is a dual island, which is found on the southern frontier of…

The month of December is fast approaching. Now is the time to plan for the year end celebrations. We tempt you to look beyond the same old ambience and party scene and bid adieu to the current year and celebrate the New Year in one of the world's hottest party destinations. From riotous street parties and fireworks extravaganzas, to marching bands and torchlight processions, here are some of the best New Year's Eve parties from around the world. Bali, Indonesia Bali has been celebrated as the…

Every year, thousands of students throughout the world spent their last year of high school applying for college to decide what will be the right choice in furthering their education. While a wide variety of students decide to proceed straight into college others would prefer to have a gap year. A gap year is when students take a year off away from the school. Students, who graduate from high school, should take a year off before starting a new chapter in life, therefore the gap year can allow…

Seventh grade, my second year now at what I thought to be the worst school in the world. On back to school night I met a man who would change my perspective on life completely, that man being Brandon Lilly. Henry Adams once said “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” At a mere five-foot four he appeared to be a kid minus the burly lumberjack beard that he possessed. I remember being skeptical at first because I had never had a male teacher before. All of my…

what I wanted to be in the future. I had also owned a journal entry where I would scribble down random thoughts and ideas, write all different kinds of stories and even poems. My first year of kindergarten came and like all kindergartner 's they look at that year has being full of fun, naps, and food. That is the year when children start learning all the basics of their reading and writing skills. Then first grade came, then second grade, third grade, fourth grade, fifith grade, and finally…

Venezuela, the place where I was born, where I grew up. It has valuable minerals, being the number one pioneer of the biggest reserve of oil, and Nicolas Maduro was now commanding one of the happiest countries in the world. Ever since he became president, political and economic issues have tormented the country. After Maduro became president in 2013, the Venezuelan people did not have any food in cabinets. When despair came into families and hungry consumed them. That is when queues started…

I have been conforming towards other people since the day I understood the concepts of how to be your own person; in other words, having your own style. I have two older siblings; a brother and a sister, and my sister is only a year older than I am. This tempted me to want to be just like her, which she did not enjoy as much as I did. I would try to be friends with her friends and of course at younger ages, we did not get along, so she would tend to push me out of her life. This…

headbands were the same type one of my classmates had. One day I decided to wear one of the headbands to school. When I got to school, the day was going great but when it came to lunch something happened all too quickly. I was running around with one of my best friends on this hill by a swing set, then suddenly the classmate that had the same headbands as me ran and ripped my headband off my head! She ripped it off my head, threw it down the hill and it broke in half. Once she threw it down the…

After almost one-hundred and eighty days, the 2015-2016 school year is approaching an end. So far, I have concluded that middle school is basically like building a house. Before middle school started, in fifth grade, the house only had the boards and the main skeleton of the whole structure. All of the basics are learned in elementary school: learning how to read, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, fractions, the founding of America,, etcetera, but by the time students reach sixth…