Best Day of My Life Essay

It was a hot day. I was about to go to recess and I knew I was going to sweat. I didn’t have a sweater just in case I got cold because I doubted I would, plus, it’s the beginning of Fall, it’s not the time of year to wear jeans, long-sleeve shirts, and sweaters.

Not long ago, I was walking toward our local park with my two friends. It was the afternoon on the great sunny Friday, my favorite day of the week. It was rush hour, around 6'o clock in the evening to be exact, the time when people are just getting off from work.This occurrence was very unforgettable to me because, I learned a very important lesson at the end of my stressful situation that happened during the middle of my experience which is to be a bigger person for difficult situations.

Projeto Tamar was an incredible life time moment, getting to do extraordinary things you don't do everyday like going zip lining, seeing turtles and most of all going on a trip with your friends and schoolmates without your parents.

Imagine being choked and striving for oxygen but you’re helpless. Your heart is pounding out of your chest and you can hear it. You want to scream but your tongue is twirled, speech is slurred, so you can only tremble. Your limbs are useless, you can’t function and thoughts are racing. Hands bent right into the wrists and fingers stuck out like princes or claws. You are suffocating, scared and horrified. All you can feel is an intense amount of pain all over your body, pins and needle every inch of your skin. Shaking uncontrollably. Emotionally and physically debilitating, you tell yourself “I need to escape, get out and run because if I don’t, I might die”.

One hot and sunny day my parents, little brother, and I wanted to get out of the house. So we decided to got to the park and play on the playground. It was so hot outside that we were sweating just from standing but it was a great day. Not only was it was a great day but it was also a great day because it was the day I was going to ask my parents if we could get a dog. I was so excited to ask that I was getting goosebumps. I began to walk towards my parents and when I reached them I asked the question.” Can we get a dog please?” Both my mama and dad looked at each other and said one day we will be able to. It wasn’t a yes but it wasn’t a no, so I knew that there was a chance that I could get one.

My family and I, went for leisure to New York for a period of 5 days, in July of 2016. I had never been in New York before, but the day we arrived, on a warm afternoon, I found it beautiful, fulfilling and diverse. I had never seen a place so unique as this one before.

A warm bead of sweat rolled down my brow in such a slow manner I thought that I had received a cut on my head and I was bleeding from whacking my head on the door panel when I exited out of the cruiser. I wiped it away as I leaned back against the hood of the car, sweating up a storm in the white polo that was supposed to be a uniform.

The long awaited day of this year in my life, first day of university, was quite exciting and somewhat surprising. I have always been an introvert my whole teenage years which made the idea of having to make new friends and fitting in a whole different environment intimidate me. But I believe that university years should be the best years of anyone’s lives, and the years of learning new things through experiences. That day, I met new people who are now my closest friends whom I genuinely enjoy being around. Surprisingly, trying to adapt to a new surrounding was not as awkward as I speculated it to be. This whole time, it was all just in my head. I guess Steve Maraboli was right, “Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”. Ever since then, I told myself that I needed to start seeing things in a different perspective in order to maximize my potential in university, socially as well as academically.

Sweat covered my face. My legs felt like they would give out every second we ran and my feet felt loose in my shoes. I was exhausted.

I followed her advice and found that I was covered by a thick blanket covering me, pulling it over my shoulders. It was difficult, but eventually Mina reached

My life began when I was born unto two people who loved me but could not keep me. About three months after my birth, I was found by a policeman in the middle of a large park in Nanchang, Jiangxi and brought to a local orphanage that is still supporting orphans to this day. As sad as the beginning of my life sounds, I was one of the lucky ones. Many unwanted children are discarded in ways that ensure their deaths, bumped around to different temporary homes, or brought up through orphanages until adulthood when they are sent to live on the streets. I was placed in two different foster home, both sets of foster parents loved me and looked out for my health. 16 months later I was adopted by wonderful American family and brought to live in Eugene,

Oh, I'm so cold because I don't have any clothes on. I thought to myself, like it was the most obvious thing in the

Sweat was pouring down my forehead. My palms were sticky. They were slowly creeping closer. I had to think quickly!

Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The most difficult paths often lead to the most beautiful destinations”. (Emerson, 2007, p.213) The happiest, most memorable day of my life was also the hardest day of my life. That day started with a regular doctor’s appointment, then the Labor and Delivery Ward, and finishing with a happy and healthy baby boy. A regular day, a regular appointment nothing out of the ordinary; but some how, out of what had become a weekly routine, an unimaginable nightmare happened. Then a hospital, the Labor and Delivery Ward, becomes a prison that I couldn’t escape. Finally, through it all a happy and healthy baby gets to go home. From the beginning to the end, this is a memory that I love but can send a shiver down my spine, a reminder that no matter how hard a person can try, no one has complete control.