Personal Narrative: Brian Ross

Most people are all grown up when they finally figure out what they want to do with their life. I was 4. I realized what I wanted to be when I attended my very first Rodeo. Even though it was so long ago I can remember that day like it was yesturday. That day got me on the path to my future.

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

Alan Brito is a friend of mine from childhood. When we were young, he and I, along with a bunch of other kids from my neighborhood, used to play tops, marbles and “twenty-one”. We had a top contest in which those who could spin the top in the air with the string, pull it back and place it on top of the palm of their hand, was the winner. At the risk of sounding pretentious, I was almost always the winner. For that reason, they nicknamed me “Toppy”. Two of my other friends, Gilly and Billy were rivals. They were very good at playing “twenty-one.” They were unbeatable. Every time we played together they beat me. I was always afraid of playing against them, because I was quite sure that by the end of the game, I would be left with no money in my pockets. In time, Gilly and Billy got married and left the country. They moved to Saint Maurice, a small paradisiac island in the Pacific Ocean.

On April 4th, 2001, a young man named Ryan Judge was born in a hospital in Munster, Indiana. I haven’t always lived in Lowell, in fact for the first year of my life, I lived in Cedar Lake. When I turned about one year old, my family moved to lowell. I can’t remember anything really important in the years before school, being that I was so young. When I started school, it was quite weird actually. Going to a place to learn, for seven hours a day. I started to notice how small I was when I saw the other kids. For some reason, they were all taller than me. Most people would think that I was bullied for this reason, but I never was. It has never really become an issue in my life, because of one thing. Even when I was younger, I loved to make people laugh. It

I believe that everyone lives life in a different ways. There isn’t a certain way to follow in life. You have to make life fun and live it to the fullest. Whether it be by yourself or with somebody you love. To me I don’t think anyone should be individual their whole life. Everyone should have somebody male/ female that they can be happy with. Life is full of surprises and it throws new things at us every day.

-According to the recording this has been going on for some time now – Coulson tells Thor as soon as the recording has ended.

The next morning, Mr. Cassidy woke up early, dressed and was ready for the hearing, he was anxious to save his home. Since he wasn’t familiar with the streets, he left the house in plenty of time to find the office in Charleston. When he arrived, he found the building, but he needed to find the parking structure. At last, he saw it on the opposite side of the street and went across to it. While looking for an empty space, he saw one and parked beside a new BMW. When he got out of the truck and straightened his clothes, he noticed Louise Anderson, The President of the Women’s Club getting out of the BMW.

While growing up economically disadvantaged isn’t necessarily desirable, I believe that it has allowed me to develop important traits and life skills that I might not have otherwise developed. Horatio Alger Award winner Johnny Cash would likely say the same about himself. Johnny Cash was if anything a hard worker. He came from very little and was able to develop and hone his talents and make a name for himself that will last generations. While the success I have attained thus far is minimal compared to that of Cash, throughout my life, I have dedicated myself to my schooling and extracurricular activities in order to make my own name for myself. I have been able to attain knowledge that has allowed me to maintain a high GPA as well as win multiple

For my educational interview I wanted to talk to the teacher that that inspired me to go into education. Chris Wells has been teaching at Cottage Grove High School in Cottage Grove Oregon for 13 years. Wells received his bachelor's in Philosophy University of Oregon as well as his Masters in Education and his Masters in Science from the University of Oregon.

There is one person in my life who I have always looked up to, his name is Austin Thompson. Several years ago at a little peoria convention known as Anime Zap, I took part in a cosplay skit competition, my first ever infact. My rival/ opponent, was no other than Austin. This is the day that we met, he cosplayed as Marshall Lee from “Adventure Time” and I was Yuuki Cross from “Vampire Knight”. We instantly became great friends, as do most people at conventions, but this made the competition much harder. I was performing a color guard staff routine to the theme song of my show and he was doing a comedy skit. Low and behold, the newbie who had never been to a convention like this, won the skit competition. This is when Austin made a huge decision.

Today was a good day; believe it or not there was not a time that I did my worst thinking. My thinking was rather clear today and I was able to get all of what I needed to accomplish done. I took a group of students on a field trip to a food show to sample different foods for them to choose from for their lunches next year. They were able to vote on what they liked and did not like. But also my thoughts were directed on a 12 year old boy that attended our school that was shot in the head last weekend when someone broke in their house. My thoughts were how can we help the family in their time of need. So I (we) did a fundraiser called “$1.00 for Devin day” and the student brought a dollar for him. The teachers contributed also, and the art teacher

I woke up on a beautiful summer morning in late October of freshman year. I stretched my arms, rubbed my eyes, and looked at my phone like I always do before I lazily get out of bed and prepare for school. I noticed I had received several text messages from friends whom I had not spoken to in ages. As I started to read them, one after another, they all said the same thing, “sorry for your loss”. I started to worry, I texted back to a couple of friends wondering what had happened. It was then when I received the news that Tommy Quinn, one of my best friends, had taken his own life.

My collaboration with James Evans consisted of one song called Breathe Me. First of all I struggled to write to his classic rock style but I eventually overcame it. I felt this collaboration held good development skills for me as it helped me learn about writing to different genres and styles. To further my development writing to different genres I could sign up to websites (such as http://www.unfinishedsongs.info) to find backing tracks to write lyrics to for all different styles.

Garold starts off in a pub talking to people about how he doesn't know magic. All of them are just dumbfounded he can’t do simple magic. They don’t know he is just a human not a mage or a mythical being from this world. Maybe he will learn one day on how to do magic. Garold feels bad so he runs away back to his safe spot. The bridge that divides both worlds, the one that gets him home all the time.

The big day had finally arrived after nearly ten months of preparation. It was the day of my very first dance recital! I had practiced my routine in dance class and at home constantly with the watchful eye of my mother helping me. My costume was ready and so was I.