When I was about 12, I was really into riding snowmobile. My brother Cody, who was 9, and I rode together all the time. One crisp, winter day, my niece, Brittany, 6, was over, and we decided it would be fun for us all to go ride our really old, beat up, yet fun snowmobile. […]
Some people think high school students should take a year to work or travel before going at university. Some people believe that students should work or travel for a year before going at university,in my opinion I totally agree. Experiencing the world of work expands the mind. The experience will help us to see how […]
Over 50 miles from the nearest gas station and a five-day paddle from any sort of infrastructure, I stepped out of the canoe, waved good-bye to my fellow “leaders in training” and entered the unknown. Armed with my pocket knife, a tarp, 20 feet of rope, a fishing rod, a Bible, a journal, my sleeping […]
“For it is in giving that we receive.”-St. Francis of Assisi The overwhelming feeling of God’s presence is not something that is simple to write about. It is a feeling that you must experience in your own time. It is an emotion that is so hard to describe that words seem trivial. I will try […]
“Something you need to know about me to survive: When I want to speak my mind, I usually speak my mind; no one is safe from my brutality. Some people take it personally, but they shouldn’t because I even do it to my own parents. I’m a very apathetic person sometimes and some people can’t […]
My life has been considerably like a mosaic. As a baby, I’ve been raised in a proud Taiwan tradition (proud each in phrases of its Chinese language language heritage and custom). But I’ve a household who drastically values unbiased thought and thus uncovered me to a myriad of environments and various cultures. I spent the […]
When I came to the United States, I was a foreigner. I didn’t know English and I didn’t dress like everybody else. I could still remember my first day in third grade – arriving with my mom and having nothing in which to carry my books home. Kids my age stared at me like I […]
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 […]
Obsession, denotatively described as the domination of ones thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire. Now we all have this controlling factor in our life, and the worst part… it never goes away. Life is built upon and thrived around obsession. From when a five year old boy is obsessed with his favorite […]
The summer before freshman year was a difficult one as I watched friends plan for their first days at a new school, knowing I wouldn’t be joining them. They had been allowed to choose their high school and decided on one that was close by and full of average kids like me. More than half […]