My long-term goal is to become a Hairdresser. First, to become a Hairdresser I need to do well in school. I want to work as hard as I can to get my diploma and to move on with my life. I want to focus on doing my schoolwork and my homework everyday. I want to […]
The first time I am called beautiful by someone outside of my family is in an elderly home. I’m eager to find a volunteer position, but as there are too many working in the local Sao Paulo orphanage, I reluctantly agree to spend two hours every Wednesday in a Brazilian elderly home. I don’t like […]
When I was four years old living in Russia I was molested, it caused me to have bad relationships with people still to this day. I do not interact well with others. One night, while I was sleeping, my father woke me up, put a hammer in my hands and told me to hit him […]
“Oh, and another thing is that you get to walk around naked anytime you want.” I half snorted, half laughed as I leaned back against my pillows, pressing the receiver to my ear. “Uh, awesome. What else?” “Well, it’s just nice getting to make your own choices. Whether they’re smart or not. You get to […]
I’m not an A+ scholar. However, I’m not a straight F scholar, both. I don’t drive a Mercedes Benz and I don’t spend a whole bunch of dollars procuring with my dad or mum’s bank cards. I’m lucky sufficient to go house and know there will probably be meals for dinner or that my brother […]
What does taking a risk mean? It means stepping out of your comfort zone, and at times doing new things even if it terrifies you. One of the greatest risks I have ever taken was auditioning for my high school’s fall play. Not only am I a person who has no performance experience, but I […]
Please inform us concerning the explicit life experiences, abilities, commitments, and/or pursuits you’ll carry to our campus that may enrich our group. First day of observe, a nervous junior, I really feel the glare of my senior teammates urgent onto the again of my head. “How did he make it?” one senior whispers to one […]
Cue stage lights: A man and woman are sitting on opposite sides of a table, his face hidden behind a newspaper and hers behind a book. They do not speak, but I am already running through the conversations they will soon have and the words that will be left hanging in the air. When the […]
A scenario that has had an affect on me: A supposed heart-wrenching break up on the age of twelve, some shallow mates and a house with one absentee guardian; this was all it took for me to be subjected to some of the traumatic experiences of my life: an Acute Porphyria assault. On the age […]
In 1984, at the end of second grade at the America School in Japan(ASIJ), my parents were told I couldn’t return to school because of my behavioral and learning difficulties. By 1995 my parents would read in the Stamford Advocate that I was a commended National Merit scholar. In fourth grade I could barely read; […]