Personal Narrative: Boone

It was late one day in June, and the sky was as blue and clear as sparkling wine. I sat back in my hammock reading the book Unbroken enjoying myself, and my uncle came up and asked me if I wanted to play poker with him, 5$ buy in. I jumped at the idea finished my page and went inside the house. Poker is a pretty big thing in my family and I’ve grown up playing and my uncle was one of the best, so spending time with him playing poker is always one of my favorite things to do. We proceed to set up the table, “Texas Holdem“ he says, Jacks to open”. Nothing weird, so we get the game going and the pots getting pretty big when all of the sudden he drops his cards. I stare the cards dead in the eye and see that i'm going to surpass him! He looks

Have you ever been in a situation where you didn’t think you could do it? Well I have many times and I’m going to write about a time during Rodeo when I didn’t think I was going to be able to do well in goat tying.

“If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything“, is a favorite statement of my grandmother, Gloria Wheeler. Born in 1940 in Remus, Michigan, she was the youngest and the only girl in her family. My grandmother is a kind, active seventy-five year old with the heart of a lion. Even at an older age, she continues to sing and act in front of large groups and memorize large scripts. My grandma, better known as Gaga, has four children; one girl and three boys. Fortunately, my father is one of her children. My grandmother inspires me to work hard, do my best, and be selfless to everyone I meet.

I'm from Round Rock, or for those of you who don't know where that is, we'll just go with Austin. Round Rock is great and you can find activities to find on some occasion, but when I am in Austin I am never bored. I used to go downtown a lot when I was younger with my Mother, Father, and older sister, but as my parents became busy and my sister and I became more involved in school we make the 20-minute travel to Austin less and less. I grew up with my two sisters and mother in the safety and growing town of Round Rock, but when I was able to drive my friends and I would make the drive downtown to enjoy the ambiance of Austin. I was given more freedom than my older sister was given in high school, but I couldn't complain my mother trusted me

I grew up listening to country music since my mother loved it so much. It was her favorite thing to listen to when we would go on long road trips with my father and younger brother throughout the years. Unfortunately, since I listened to it so much, I starting disliking it when I became a teenager. I started believing that country music was only for “older” people. I also thought it was boring and wasn’t the “cool type of music” teenagers are supposed to listen to. I eventually grew out of that stage and started listening to country music again a few years later. The reason I started listening to it again was because of one amazing country artist. My best friend invited me to a Luke Bryan concert in Las Vegas in 2010. At first I was iffy about it since I wasn’t a huge country music fan like her, but then I watched some videos of Luke’s performances and he seemed like a very talented artist. I decided to give it a shot and go. What I thought was going to be an average concert, turned out to be the best concert of my life! Luke put on an amazing performance and touched my heart in so many ways. I pictured

Those words above were Christopher Hitchen’s last utterances from a life dedicated in pursuit of truth, a truly colorful life where he used words and cheekily naughty charm as his foremost weapons. These two words set me thinking as to what he might have been thinking on those waning moments of an exemplary life. So a fine June morning i set about on a quest to understand more about why he has come to grip my attention like no other person. And why I was feeling this unrivaled kinship with this cigarette chewing whisky loving Brit. I would not dare to call myself a very well read person though I read quite a lot. Most of my reading has been very random, on a wide variety of subjects since childhood. So the English language

It was my first time going to Knotts and I was with my classmates. Felipe, David, Eric, Leo, and I decided to be in a group. David and Eric were trying to convince Felipe and I to ride Supreme Scream. We were convinced and decided to go on the ride. We never saw how tall it was and when we did Felipe looked at me and asked, “Are you still going on it?” I chickened out because of how tall it was and decided to go on different rides.

Passing by the open window, he heard a loud muffled scream for help; Mr. Cassidy smiled and went on to the back yard where his hound, Claude was waiting. “They took care of another one. Are you ready for breakfast?” He asked, and went back in the house with Claude following him, wagging his tail, ready for his food.

One night 15 year old Christopher Boone finds his neighbour's dog dead in her front yard. Christopher wonders who killed it, and decides to write a book in which he tries to figure it out, like a murder mystery novel. Although it’s not directly stated, the narrator's text implies that he has an autism spectrum disorder called Asperger’s Syndrome. We can infer this because he displays traits of the disorder. For example, it’s difficult for him to understand social norms like body language and other forms of human interaction. He is, however, tremendously good at math and more logic-based skills. Christopher is an unreliable narrator because he has an extremely skewed and biased perspective cannot communicate properly and is only capable of extremely limited emotional interactions.

I have been at Saddleback for around seven years. I began riding in the beginner camp and am currently jumping and showing at 2’3”. Showing with everyone at the barn is always a blast we make it a great time. Ashley, Jessie, and Allie are great trainers , incredible teachers, and will do anything they can to help you. The people around the barn are very kind and helpful. The horses are absolutely amazing and extremely well trained. I've had a chance to ride almost all of the lesson horses and show a couple of them. I have enjoyed getting to ride all of them! The facilities and land are unbelievable! The stables are very clean, well kept, and organized. I also have the joy of working as the barn hand on Sunday afternoons. This is a great experience

My musical tastes is always constantly changing. When I was about twelve, my favorite genre was country. I would only listen to it unless I was with somebody else who controlled the radio. I knew the songs and the artist in the back of my hand at the time. When I entered in high school, my musical taste change, and I started to listen to pop music. I still like country, but I listen to more pop music also. My musical tastes continue with pop and country until my junior year of high school when I went back to only listening to country music. Country music has now started to change where it is not the same type of music I enjoyed listening to. Middle of my senior year, I started listening to K-Love (contemporary Christian), and I enjoyed it

Samantha Cielinski/More than happily I am excited that this weekend I have arrangements to just hang out around my house as well as to be with my family. I started my arrangements last night. Furthermore, last night my dad and I watched barrel racing in Little Falls. Extremely hungry dad and I decided that we should eat. Therefore, before we went to the arena we went to Sue’s Drive in for hamburgers with a dessert of ice cream. Having the most wonderful time, we were ready to be able to go to bed and sleep.

I have not always been myself; the person I am today is very different than who I used to be. I have seen myself sprout and bloom into a confident, young woman in a matter of three years. I remember arriving at my high school during freshman year a nervous wreck; I had very few friends despite being in the same school system my entire educational career. The previous year had left a stale taste in my mouth, and I longed for a fresh start. I remember walking through the wide hallways with countless bodies bustling around me. Seeing all those different people made me think. Who was I exactly?

It was a bright and sunny day in the big city of, Big City. Everyone in the city was full of joy and was very exuberant and upbeat. Dan was out and about like he normally was, he always had something to do, but today was different. He realized that he should start his day in the park. Everything was perfect for him he felt like he didn’t have a care in the world. He was seeing everything in a bright and shiny way. He heard the sound of birds chirping all around him. The atmosphere was filled with clean uncut and unpolluted air that felt like it tasted like something that just came from heaven. He felt that he was in heaven everything felt so unique and wonderful that he began to run around and touch everything. Everyone look at him like he

My heart was thumping heavily, as the bus took a turn towards the mountains. I didn’t know why I had agreed, but it was too late to turn back.