The moment I stepped off the plane I knew I wasn’t in “Kansas” anymore. I wasn’t even in North America. I was stepping out of my well known world onto foreign soil, actually an airport tarmac. I was eleven at the time, naive and green, white and horribly American. I was now to live in […]
The candy’s smooth wrapper crinkles as I trace its edges with my fingertips, imagining its contents. The wrapper tears like a fine fabric, revealing a corner of dark chocolate. I break off a piece and take pleasure in its creamy essence. I have always had a sweet tooth, but it is not just sugary snacks […]
Morning – high school students with glazed eyes stand under a streetlight; one stands apart, gazing at the stars. I am that dreamer. Every morning, I look toward the heavens, basking in the glow of the Greek and Roman gods. Orion watches as I get on the bus, Venus waves me off to a new […]
“Wait a second! Is that our quantity?” Jackson nodded and we high-fived one another. My first ballroom dance competitors was the first time I spotted that I used to be actually pretty much as good as I mentioned I used to be. I discovered that the most vital factor in dancing was to be assured, […]
Swoosh. Splash. The frigid water closes over my head. Sinking into the deep blue-green of Flathead Lake, slowly I turn over and gaze up at the wind-whipped waves that make the sunlight dance on the lake floor. Slowly, I let my breath out and return to the surface. The cold, fresh air hits my face […]
Heavy respiration. Locked eyes. Pounding footsteps. I watched the quickest runner in all of Arrowhead Excessive College’s historical past. He broke the document…Then once more. This was the vivid day when my mindset of the whole world remodeled. Work ethic was in my blood since a younger age, primarily based upon spiritual values and household […]
Having breakfast every morning is more important than having a personal relationship with God. This is the way I used to think. My first two years of high school I would make sure I had time to eat breakfast every morning, but I never made time for God. I never prayed, read the bible or […]
A Chinese football player. A Bulgarian sumo wrestler. A Ghanaian skier. An Indian ballerina. All of the above can be broadly classified as contradictions. While the general public recognizes the Chinese for their superb intelligence and talent in classical music, American football isn’t usually considered a forte. Most would assume that the Bulgarian sumo wrestler […]
When my life was shortly falling out of my arms and actuality wasn’t inside attain, I felt helpless. I wanted to discover a method out by some means, somebody or one thing to affect me in a greater method by serving to me out of the most important gap I had dug myself into. All […]
Final summer season in Cancun, I used to be bored so I satisfied my household that we should always go to Tulum. Tulum with its lovely days and tropical climate all yr spherical, the place the solar is sort of all the time out, the place the ocean is turquoise blue, and the place the […]