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 […]
The water appeared crystalline and ice-cold the first time I readied myself to jump off the high dive. I knew I wouldn’t die, yet an intangible force restrained me until I closed my eyes, bent my knees, propelled myself off the board, and cut through the surface. The no man’s land between the board and […]
“The feller whose verdict counts most in your life, is the guy staring back from the glass.” The Guy in the Glass, a poem by Dave Wimbrow, tells the most important life lesson; if you have cheated yourself, your life really does not mean anything. I had this poem read to me right before my […]
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; […]
“All women four×200 meter runners please report back to the monitor. All women working the four×2.” The final place I wished to report back to was the monitor. Actually, I assumed I used to be going to vomit. What am I doing? I’m not a monitor runner, and definitely not a four×200 meter runner. “Prepared, […]
Valedictorian A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. -Horace Mann Life is a learning process. We strive, we search, we interface and we relate the experiences that become of our endeavors to posterity, for better or for worse. Interactions between teacher […]
My year’s most exciting moments arrive in the mailbox with Girl’s Life magazine, embellished with a fresh “Dear Carol” column. Carol Weston, a Yale graduate, teens’ author, and family friend, has had an immeasurable influence on me. My parents and I have spent hours around the kitchen table deliberating over the questions agonizing “Boy Problems,” […]
Part 1: The Sky I look up. I am covered in a blanket of black licorice. The moon caresses my cheeks, tickling the tips of my ears and my nose. I lay on the teak deck of the SSV Tole Mour next to three girls, people whom I consider as close as family, close enough […]
Everyday I see someone with special needs. Somewhere, sometime…every day. Either at school, or walking down the sidewalk. When I see them, I think, who helps them? Who is the one that looks after them during the day? I want to be that person. My goal is to become a special education teacher. I want […]
Lots of issues can occur to a individual in a 12 months. Lots did occur to me final 12 months. My junior 12 months of highschool precipitated many trials and tribulations; nevertheless, I got here out of it a higher individual. To start with, throughout soccer I fractured my again on each side of the […]