Personal Narrative: My Experience At PLT Camp

The long 172 days had finally passed, and the day I had been waiting for, for months, had finally come. We were in Chicago for my One Direction concert, the day couldn’t have come faster. The agonizingly slow hours that passed that day was too much to bear. Before arriving at Soldier Field, I was highly anticipating meeting one of my closest friends, Jessica, for the first time. It’s actually rather incredible to me, we first were introduced on social media, we didn’t know each other at all, all we knew was that we both loved the same band, and we were both going to the same concert. Prior to meeting for the first time, we were restricted to Skyping each other almost every other day and texting every day.

On 01-25-17 I responded to the above address. Upon arrival I observed an officer talking to Ciro Castro who was speaking through a brocken window in the door and he refused to come outside. I also saw Christine Young sitting on the ground in the neighbors yard talking to Ofc Matthews.

We had been walking back from the Jorgensen general store when Jimmy saw a kid his age and they started playing catch. We had been sitting there for hours and my wife had been talking to his wife and they invited us to their wagon train because I had told told them how we don't have one yet. Leaving independence, Missouri tomorrow March 8th.

When I was nine, I went away to sleepaway camp in Maine for the first time. Camp Winnebago would be my home for seven and a half weeks, and I was only going to see my parents for one day in the middle for Visiting Day. As excited as I was for camp, I was really, really nervous to leave home for the first time for that long.

Growing up the daughter of an Army Basic Training failure was an embarrassment for quite some time. My father went to Army Basic Training straight out of high school, and came back shortly after leaving. He was discharged for injuries of his knees; he was weak. One would not assume a child of someone who failed Basic Training would be eager to go, however I knew it was my time as soon as I received a call from a recruiter asking me to come in. It was my chance to show my dad the person I am without him, as well as fight for my country. I conquered Basic Training the summer in between the summer of my junior and senior year at the age of seventeen. There are four easy steps to Basic Training: two flights, reception, training,

Every person has had a time in their life that changed their perspective on the way he or she lives or that changed their way of thinking, but there are not many people that have had a time in their life that changed who he or she is. There are only so many things that can change a person. One of the only things that can change a person is Camp Lambec. Camp Lambec sits peacefully on the beach of Lake Erie. It has cabins everywhere by number and a veil that splits it in half. There is a trail that goes all the way around it and a chapel that has brought joy to thousands of people. In other words, it’s the greatest place on Earth. Anyone who has gone there comes back as a new person and for me the week I spent there this year changed who I

I was born in February in Nineteen Ninety-Nine. As a little kid all I would do is whine. I played on a soccer team with my friends. We would always hang out on the weekends. I went to a small, private elementary school.

I live in Ancient Greece in the year 612. Most kids at the age of 12 are in military camp but i’m being taught by Plato, he is my tutor. My dad is in the military and i probably won’t see him until he is 60 years old or something like that, I miss him even though he can be strict but mother says the reason that he is so strict is because I am special and plus he is in the military so people are strict over there. I usually spend most of my days reading books or at the academy in athens with my tutor Plato learning something called philosophy which I have never heard of. My mom is always supporting me when it comes to that type of stuff. I kinda wonder what it is like in military camp because I never get to talk to other kids my age, but I

With no vision or plan to enter the civilian life and no idea what to do with my life, I still had severe scars of the year in Iraq. There wasn’t a priority or a drive, but however, I did have some responsibility I had a wife and three children. In a desperate move, I attempted to return to the State where I was born as I think about it this may have been some comfort zone. I would send my two new children back home to their state while I attempted to land a job. My first interview would be in Cincinnati as a Retail Manager in a large company. Confident that I had some stability, I couldn’t avoid the heavy drinking or my violent outbursts I would eventually succumb to leaving my wife and two children to find myself in this lost world, which later I regretted. My focus was to leave everything behind and start a new life this would

I joined the Marine Corps looking for a challenge. I wanted to open doors for a new career and longed to have a positive impact on the world around me. Looking back five years later, I realize I found all that I originally sought, but I’ve also found something profoundly satisfying and meaningful that I never knew I was missing.

Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night (p. 389) in 1889. For this piece of artwork van Gogh used oil paint on a 29" X 36 1/4" canvas. In this painting van Gogh painted a dark village with a giant Cypress tree placed along with a small spiral church which draws the viewer 's attention towards the sky that is depicted with stars and swirls upon the dark village. Van Gogh placed an emphasis on the Cypress tree by painting it large, long, and pointing towards the sky. He also did this with the spiral church as it 's spiral stands very straight and tall aiming towards the sky.

When things aren’t going as planned and there is no way to move forward I tend not worry about the things that I cannot control. I explore every option, I will seek out the help of others who have been in my position before see if they have any advice, and once all options have been exhausted I will take a step back and try to focus on another step that can be handled while things get worked out. I also pride myself in making sure that I hold myself accountable when things aren’t right. When I was the summer camp director at a daycare center we had a no nut facility, so any lunch brought from home had to be check by the team leaders. One day a team leader missed a lunch with nuts in it, the kids told their parents that another kid had was

March 2006, I made the best decision in my life, and that was to join the U.S. Navy. I left for the boot camp two months later. I have no idea what is going to be in stores for me when I hit boot camp. What I can tell was that my hands felt clammy and I was very nervous and anxious at the same time. I knew the moment that I arrive to Great Lakes, Illinois, and my life would change forever. I knew physically that I would change but how about mentally?

George Orwell’s 1984 is a dystopian novel about the life of Winston Smith in his home Oceania. He goes through the struggles of living in a place with a totalitarianism government run by Big Brother. 1984 conforms to the conventions of a dystopian novel by presenting the characteristics of the initial presentation of a utopia, citizens plagued by oppression and fear, and limited free expression. Orwell chooses this genre as a warning to prosperity about what can happen to a society when a government becomes totalitarian.

Something that is definite when considering the University of Minnesota is it's fundamental focus on diversity. Its distinct community of student scholars provides students with an environment adequate for great learning opportunities. Growing up in a small town of nearly 7,000 people in Southern Minnesota, I found myself often thinking I was limited when it came to fully experiencing everything society has to offer. Being on a diverse college campus, like the University of Minnesota's, where there is a mix of people with different backgrounds and different interests, will educate me and grant me the opportunity of meeting a variety of people that I have not yet had the opportunity to be exposed to as I was growing up. In addition, a less homogenous