
Have you ever experienced something that you still don’t think is real? Something you’ve thought about constantly, remembering each detail specifically and you still don’t understand why or how it happened? I’ve spent the past months replaying the moments in my mind like songs on repeat, torn between it being a dream or just awful reality. June 23rd was one of the warmest, most gorgeous days of summer, and a very memorable one, too. My best friend, Kelsey, and I had just consumed our whole Saturday…
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I'm in class, waiting for the bell to ring as I drum my fingers on the desk. "Miss Whitmore!" said my math teacher, jolting me back to class. "I know you can't wait to get out of here and do whatever it is you teens do these days, "she said, trying to hide her anger " but can you please pay attention to the task at hand?" I smile apologetically and focus on the board. Numbers upon numbers, with a few signs thrown here and there. God, I hate math. I hate everything that has to do with it. Whoever…
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When I was a child, I was a real menace. I knew how to get my way and I used my powers well. My mother told me my behavior could clear out a playground. Obviously changes have happened since my playground days. Prior to my metamorphosis, I had a babysitter come almost every day to watch my siblings and me during the summer. One day, I had the brilliant idea of locking my babysitter out of the house. At that time, my babysitter was a young high school girl, around the age of sixteen. Her name was…
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When I got out of the car, I was really excited. It was quiet we walked to up to the house and we knocked on the door and there they were my cousins I finally met them it was fun with them we played games went in there mini car and played on their playground. After a couple of days we went to Disney Land it took like 45 min to get there, the entrance was really big and there was no people in line so we thought that was good about the place it smelled like food. We gave the woman in the entrance…
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I can’t explain what it’s like to be lost in your own body. Im Jessica an ordinary 16 year old high schooler and this is where my story begins. On September 24 I met Zach The guy that had a big impact on my life. I met Zach at one of my soccer games. He came up to me and tapped me on the shoulder and put out his fist. At first I was creeped out but I proceed to give him a fist bump. Nearly a week later he direct messages me on instagram and says “weren't you the girl at the soccer game”. I honestly…
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Full grown lemon trees stood up carrying the juiciest lemons while my brother and I ate the sweetest kent mangos on the alluring lawn that I was so proud to call mine. I remembered my impeccable life before I thought that coming to the United States was going to be a great idea but one is capable of doing anything to be with the people you love the most, even if it means leaving your friends, the big house that you had known all your life, all to become the awkward foreign girl that can’t speak English…
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One year shortly after I had gotten my driver's license I chose to make a poor choice. It had started at my friends beach house party. They were twins and were having an extra special party. It started with hanging out and going into the water. We came back later and made some food. After that we came back inside to hang out. We were talking and blasting music. The decision I chose that made it a memorable night was when I decided to leave. I was having lots of fun and decided to stretch my time…
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Being scared of something can lead you down the wrong path. If something you want to do scares you because you think you’ll do bad or you think people will judge you for it, you should go for it anyway. Eleanor Roosevelt once said “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” I think that is important because if you want to do something go out and do it no one is stopping you but yourself. You just have to keep your head up and be optimistic about it. I remember when I was about eight I…
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It was early in the morning and I was listening to this old ticking clock in my room and then suddenly mom rushed into my room and told me to hurry up and get down here right now. I was confused by what was going on but I was too scared to ask. So I hurried up and ran downstairs and was surprised to see the police at the door. Then I saw my mom crying and the police men were beating around the bush. Then I noticed Jack wasn’t barking so I asked my mom where was he. She told me that the police have…
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Imagine feeling excited or scared on your first day of trying something. Well, it happened to me. One early, sleepy morning, my brother and I woke up to my dad excitedly saying that we were going on a vacation. First I didn’t know where we would go on our vacation, but I was really excited. When my dad said that, me and my brother went and change. While we were changing, my mom was packing foods for the trip. My dad went out to start the car. When we got there I was happy because it was long trip…
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