Waiting for the Weekend

car! Let me ride the four-wheeler!” I exclaimed as I slammed the door. I jumped on the four-wheeler and headed out to seek solitude in my moment of stress and jealousy. Erin had just graduated from high school, and we were at our dad’s for the weekend celebrating her recent success. The year was 2001, and it was the beginning of May. Erin is my older sister who is the most spoiled. I just didn’t think it was fair for her (owning a car) to go and ride the four-wheeler. She could go driving…

friends, and in the end, live happily ever after. In the movie, Charlie McMillan is an unhappily married bank manager in a supermarket who reunites with his old high school friend and FBI agent Max Kessler at a high school reunion. They spend a weekend…

Anaya Moore 1,152 words 9100 St. Charles Rock Road St. Louis, MO 63114 (314) 493-6100 moorea374@ritenourschools.org A Struggle That Shaped Her Character by Anaya Moore Alanna who had been struggling with her mom since her parents had split was going into high school as a senior. Also, she was second at the top of her class and it was her fourth year of volleyball. She was doing great,…

race/ethnicity fell under the category of a minority (Black/African American, Latino(a)/American) seem to have more meaningful conversations than other races/ethnicities. It was difficult to analyze each conversation because there was usually a long line waiting to get inside Oliver Hall, but the Sodexo workers either smiled or took extra time with students they knew/had a conversation before. Being Latina and actually knowing the Sodexo workers, I noticed that they did this for me…

The memory still lingers in my mind of when I walked into the enormous unfamiliar halls of my new high school for the first time. So many useless things had been said by everyone with regards to Freshman year, most of which were what seemed like cliche over exaggerated horror stories. Typical upperclassmen pranks played out on the incoming freshmen. As bogus as it may sound, I have been so gullible that I believed every word of every story anybody would tell me. It was to be expected that I…

Soldiers spend twelve months wearing pounds of gear and treating their weapons like it is an extension of themselves. They trade items in their Meals Ready to Eat (MRE) amongst each other. They pass the time playing cards, talking for hours and waiting in long lines to call home or use a computer. At some point they will have fire their weapons and live with the decision they will have to make. Because of past military conflicts, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and physical…

It was so amazing I couldn't even believe it. My friend Lucas had just called me telling me he received two tickets for the Guns n Roses concert this weekend and that he wanted me to go with him. I was shocked, it was one of my favorite bands and they had come back together for one last tour after their retirement. Since I was in New York by myself and the concert was in Newark which is not so close and at the same time one of the most dangerous places in the area I had to call my mom and dad to…

We pass by so many people every day. We see a man in a suit with hair gelled back buying flowers and assume they're for his wife. But they're actually for his dying mother. We come in contact with clerks at the grocery store, telemarketers asking for money, a woman rushing past you in the airport, but you have no clue who they are, what they do. They all have their own stories, their own lives, and we only get a 5-second glance into those stories. Take into consideration that there are 86,400…

“Wow I can’t believe someone’s trying to close this restaurant,” I thought to myself as I was eating at Cracker Barrel. I enjoy going to your restaurant I go there often with my family on the weekends. The restaurant brings me and my family closer together. Your food is delicious and savory. I have read that your mission statement is to please your customers, every time I eat at our restaurant I am beyond pleased. And so is my family. I find your southern style really fascinating and unique most…

About 9 years after opening Amor Cubano in November 2007, lines still crawl around the block to get in the restaurant. Founders Julio Quevdo, Mario Zarate and the young couple Dailyn Santos and Jorge Davis brings the Hispanic culture back to the corner of 111th street and 3rd Avenue in Spanish Harlem. Amor Cubano is located at this location so far, and Vivian Baquero (associated with the owner) states, “the idea of starting the company was Julio’s and so he got his friends to work with him to…