The Lockers

Living in Two Cities Nearly 40 - 50% of all marriages end in divorce, of those divorces with children only 10% of parents share physical joint custody (Emery). I fit into the 10% category, living in two different households in two different cities, forty minutes away from each other. My parents have been divorced since I was six. I have faced many challenges with having to commute about an hour everyday from the two different households. Instead of letting these challenges break me, I learned…

Ossineke, Alpena, Michigan. If you use your right hand palm as a map of Michigan, it’s located in the point finger. It has been 2 months away from my arrival, time flew so quickly. The first time I came here, I figured out that I have been pronouncing my city name in the wrong way. The right one is Ossineke(Os-san-nek) ,not like my awkward Indonesia pronunciation with palembangnesse accent. My host family name is Maggie, she is very kind and friendly.Everywhere we go to places in the city;…

Constantly consumed by my own thoughts, I had felt a flurry of emotions, struggling to differentiate my feelings of excitement from my feelings of angst as I first attended tryouts for the cheerleading squad. Never had I been forced to say chants or perform dances to multiple eight counts. It was not commonplace for me to be found along the sidelines, cheering for others. Rather, I was the student who was on the court, reacting instinctively to the movement of the ball, but after enduring such…

disguise it—say, ‘How much would you like to die, Fart?’ (Chapter 5 Paragraph 29)” That was just the start of it. Those words shook Bart because he took Tyro seriously. When there wasn’t a single soul in the hallways of Bailywell and Bart was by his locker, Tyro had a group of two jump Bart from behind, hitting him in the back and then stuffing him in Bart’s own…

There are many schools in the U.S. and they could be better. Many students think having no work to do is what makes a school better and sometimes I agree. But, there are also other details that contribute to a well made school. Many different people have different opionions on what the right school has or is. Mabey it is an honor code or well developed classrooms, here is my opinion. A well made school has athletics, a nice campus, and not a difficault workload. The first attribute that makes a…

“This is your year son,” my father says while glancing at me above his newspaper. It is open to the local sports section and a picture of me in my football uniform is dominating the first page. I get an uneasy feeling as soon as I see it. My stomach turns as if someone had just punched me in it. After everything that happened this summer, seeing me portrayed as a heroic figure made me nauseous. I bite into an apple, trying to conceal my discontent from my father. Between bites I murmur, “The…

was not here. There was a lot of students just staring at what they did to me. All the bystanders did not help me because they were all scared of Bree’s squad. One day I heard something I was not supposed to hear. Brees locker is the row next to mine. I went up to my locker to get my stuff for my next class which is creative communication. I am short so you can’t see me from the other row, on the other hand Bree is tall you can see her clearly. She did not now that I was there. She was…

Luckily, Roge was good at fighting, dealing considerable damage to their foes. Unluckily, Roge could only manage this for five seconds before he was overrun, letting seven of Cuthe's friends get past him in hot pursuit of James. ------------ - - - - - - - - - - - James bolted down the hallway at his fastest speed looking for any way to escape his pursuers. Colored fliers melted into a blur around him as his arms pumped,…

class. Today is volleyball tryouts! After school I have to go in the locker room and get ready, I am so excited! I have been practicing all day and night for this and I feel that I am finally ready to get the spot on this team. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Mountain View has won the regional state championship 5 years in a row! Finally, it’s the end of 8th period and I can finally go to tryouts. I walk into the locker room and there I see standing there is Alexa Macias and her two other…

As you walk out of the football locker room the air is bursting with the fresh smell of popcorn and hot dogs. You can feel the butterflies start to swarm in your stomach as you step foot onto the field. You look all around you and all you can see are your brothers, your teammates. You can feel the field move as your team the mighty lions take the field. You look left and see your opponents staring you down and you can see in there eyes that they want to beat you so bad on your own turf. In your…