“Whose footprints are these?” “What is this piece of paper that has baby footprints marked in ink with the name “Roopmathi” on the top?” My dad’s face froze, and my mom’s jaw dropped as they saw me holding the paper. I asked,“Who is Roopmathi and why do you have her footprints?” Waiting for their response, […]
I’ve been suspended over the rolling hills of Poland by nothing however paper-thin, see-through mesh netting. I’ve squeezed my method via Buddha’s nostril to carry luck and luck to my household. I’ve in contrast ice cream from eight completely different nations, and located that my favourite is hidden down a slim side-street in Vienna. Nonetheless, […]
The day started out like the rest in Ecuador. We woke up early, ate a rushed breakfast, packed medicine and raced to the buses before they left. Because of the steep mountainous terrain, it felt like we were riding through the rain forest in Jeeps. When we were near the clinic, kids lined up along […]
My father always said, “You can’t stop the rain from falling, but you can choose to use an umbrella.” I figured he got it from a book…maybe an e-mail or a fortune cookie. But I never got the meaning of it until I went to high school. From pre-school to eighth grade, I attended a […]
Rising up in a Latino family, I used to be taught each English and Spanish, and I used to be fluent in each. My mother and father would use English and Spanish in the identical sentence, and I developed an ear for thick accents and blended verbiage. After I entered my teen years, nevertheless, I […]
The Atlantic, what had beforehand been a predominately dormant ocean, erupted with a flurry of exercise throughout the latter portion of the 15th century C.E. with the first voyages of Christopher Columbus. With these got here an onslaught of intercontinental commerce, starting, clearly, with the Columbian change in the early 1500’s C.E. The expanse of […]
My head swirls as I look for Orion and his glowing sword. I try to take in all the flickering, little lights in the night sky. Millions of stars gleam with vitality. My eyes sift through the sparkling dots above me. One dot moves towards me. Just when I start to think a star is […]
I’ve the selection each morning to be blissful or prickly. This previous summer season I had a job handing out towels at an outside fountain. How laborious might it’s at hand out towels? When youngsters’s moms got here as much as me whereas I used to be working, they’d get irate with me if issues […]
As I peered down into the round body of the microscope, I discovered myself gazing nothing. Once more. My eye ached from squinting. Perhaps I wasn’t lower out for this kind of factor. Then, as I anxiously fiddled with the black knob, a blurry dot slowly shifted into focus. I had discovered it: a grayish […]
“When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God’s gift to the theater.” I understand how Morgan Freeman felt when he was doing theater. When you are on stage, everything else just fades away. It doesn’t matter if you’re the main lead or just a swaying tree in […]