A Flight That Changed My Life

I grew up in a small town in the state of Michoacan, Mexico until a few weeks after my seventh birthday. In 2001, after six years since my father petitioned to have us come to the United States with him and finally he had received a letter from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that his request had been approved. Being of that age, I was my mother’s companion everywhere, however, all I could grasp from those conversations was that we were going to the United States. I don 't think any of us knew what this meant or to what extent this would change our lives, not even my parents whom I thought knew it all.

About a year and a half ago during the fall of my junior year of high school, I was diagnosed with an illness that has dramatically changed every aspect of my life. This illness has changed how I think, what I do in my spare time, how I feel both emotionally and physically, and has given me a more optimistic outlook on life. Any plans I had for my future were interrupted and thrown right out the window. Everything changed for me and not in a good way.

I had an experience that changed my life completely in just in a blink of an eye. Even though 19 is still a young age, it should never happen to anyone. I stop to think every day about that day and what had happened to me was a tragedy. Ever since then, I’ve seen how much I have changed and because of that I cherish life

Thirty years from today I left my native country, Romania with my family to come to America in the state of New York. I remember with perfect clarity, the day we arrived at John F. Kennedy airport. I was only nineteen years of age. I have to admit that my family and I were afraid of the unknown. We exited the airport, got into a van,drove for about 45 minutes , and checked into the Aberdeen Hotel. At that time Aberdeen Hostel was mostly for transit immigrants. To be precise, it was for political refugees. My parents received a United States visa after my mother ended her twenty-one days of hunger strike. During our stay in the hotel, we went job hunting. I was fortunate enough to find a job right across the street from the hotel. It was

Sometimes when we have experiences that change our lives we have trouble finding the words to describe what happened. The event that changed my life was one of those experiences. Earlier this year I went to Detroit with some friends for a festival called Movement. The festival is three days, Saturday to Monday, in downtown Detroit just across the lake from Canada. The artists that play there are legends of underground house music and other genres of electronic music. This music was created in Detroit, so the locals have a lot of pride in this scene. Even the mayor declared the week of the festival “Detroit Techno Week,” recognizing the tourism and the revenue that is generated in light of this event.

A lot of people have life lessons or events that have changed them somehow. I have a very petrifying experience that changed how I see things. I was about ten years old when this happens my family and I were going on a trip to Frostburg State University. It was a Friday after school, I had to pack the night before, so we could leave right after I got off the bus, I remember not being very excited about going nor were my brothers. My parents were very excited though because it was the college that they both graduated from. I had no desire in going because I was only ten at the time, so I did not need to be visiting colleges, or going to more school on my weekend. We were just doing this for my parents, this obviously meant a lot to them. I don’t have much recognition of the ride up because I slept the majority of the it.

In my life I have had many significant moments that have changed the way I think. One of these moments was when my dad had almost gotten his arm cut off. When this took place, I was just five or six years old, and then I did not recognize what was going on, but I did have an idea of what was going on. This impacted my life the hardest and taught me to appreciate my dad more. What caused my dad to almost lose his arm was a forklift which my uncle was driving and my dad fell in front of the wheel and his arm got cut. He then got rushed to the emergency room where they reattached the part of his arm that had been cut. Of course it would have taken him time to recuperate from such a traumatic experience. After some time had passed, he went back

Conclusion,It is how I am now. This event has changed me because I have become smarter. I became smarter because I could read a different language. I got more friends because I could understand them more. And finally because I became the best trumpet player. It taught me to work hard to achieve what I want. I am know I hard worker super smart and have friends because of this

A time that affected my outlook on life was when I was nominated as a Student of the Year Candidate for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. I was able to run a 7 week campaign against other students to raise money for blood cancer. I looked at this opportunity as a way to raise money for a horrible disease. I never realized how much it would impact me and that I had an opportunity to bring awareness to my community. Ultimately I was able to raise over $27,000.00 in just 7 weeks by bringing my community together, from working with the local baseball league, to fundraising at a popular pizza parlor, hosting events and including my high school classmates and staff. I have learned to speak publicly and be an active participant in my community. I

The life changing event, along with the acquiring of a life changing disease, namely my diagnosis of Myasthenia Gravis a month before my mother had passed, rightly made me improve my relations with loved ones towards the better,

One major event that have changed my life and help changed my viewpoint today is the death of my father, Abraham Kaba aka Blamah in 2002. The month of the tragedy is what I do not recall because I was between the age of 7 and 8 years old at the time.

One experience that has had a dramatic effect on me was when my grandfather had his stroke. This had a dramatic change in my life in many ways and my life will never be the same because of it. Not only has it taught me to take care of myself, but it has always taught me to not take anything for granted, especially time we get to spend with our family.

To say that my life has been filled with ups and downs would be a severe understatement. Throughout my life I was nearly killed by a Pitbull as a child, moved away from all my friends and family in Georgia, and even had my younger brother go missing for nearly a week. However, one instance changed me more than all the others, despite not seeming as dramatic as the others. The instance I speak of is the divorce between my mother and my father.

You hear individuals enlighten you concerning how some noteworthy occasion or person in their lives tagged along and changed everything. You know about some phenomenal disclosure sometimes up on the mountain, or a nearby experience with nature, even a brush with some crazy fiasco, conveying the individual to the doorstep of death. A great many people cite fantastic occasion that is one of a kind to them and catches the wind of how that something has come to significantly affect their lives, changing the way they see life and see it. You won't observe my story to be anything fantastic, but rather for me, it has been the one most uniquely astonishing occasion of my life. It was the day that I met my better half. He came into my life and influenced me in such a significant number of courses and for which I truly don't have words to portray. However, I will attempt my best to depict how his coming into my life transformed me and gave me a radically new world to take a gander at.

I will never forget the day when my life was changed forever. I was twenty-two years old and about to give birth to my first child. I was having a girl, who I was going to name Mia Alexandria. Up until this point in my life I was able to go and come as I pleased, but that was about to all change. I knew that having a child would change my life but did not know how much.