Personal Narrative: My Hudson Valley Experience

New York is a state where there are big lights and lots of people and busy streets. I live in Brooklyn, New York and I was born here and I have lived here all my life. Personally, where I live I can walk to go get groceries that I need and everything is in walking distance. I take the public subway or the bus to get to school and there are many public schools here in Brooklyn, New York. There are delis and corner stores almost around every block. Here in Brooklyn, it is very noisy and busy. I am so used to the noise that I can sleep soundly even with all the noise that surrounds my house. Personally, I think that if I were not born here or was not a New Yorker, I would plan to move here when I get older.

Roughly four years ago I moved to Buffalo with my mom and two sisters, best move ever. Before then I had lived in Rochester, or to be more specific, Brockport. My childhood house was big and gray. It had a huge yard and very long driveway. However, my house in Brockport is not my home. I call home my green and white Tudor styled Kenmore house. It has a small green yard and a short driveway. It has been the best part of my life because of all the opportunities that were missed out on when you live so far away. Here in Buffalo I have the opportunity to go the high school where my mom, aunts, grandma, cousins, and sisters all graduated from. For now my job is going to that high school, but the second I turn sixteen, I will be working as a cashier at the dashes down the street from my home, a little family tradition. The reason I moved though, is hands down the most awful thing to happen to me or that can happen to a little kid, like I was at the time.

Last year was my first year as a college student. After much anticipation, I was finally starting my university career and studying what I wanted. Classes started and everything was okay, but deep down I knew I wanted to study away from home. When graduating high school I had decided to stay, thinking it was the smartest decision since going to college is not the easiest transition and adding going to another country would have been too much for me. But two weeks into my first semester I decided to start my research.

An experience that challenged me was when I was going to hit a jump with my dirt bike and came short and then hit it again and overdoing it and hitting it over and over until I finally made it. Nevertheless…

Hwy. 395, past a marker grandma green church of my childhood. Our post Ironman week was less than typical. Hence, we are home turning over flagging remnants of overgrown August herbs, a plethora of scarlet blistering shishito peppers, and multi colored bells, discovering another garden dinner in the doing. My mother often made stuffed bell peppers which began with blanched, whole peppers full of ground beef, bread crumbs, bacon, and raw Minute Rice which magically cooked the tiny white bits as they bathed in bubbling stewed tomatoes topped with American cheese. Sixty years later, my sister and I reminiscence about those delicious packages of meatloaf and buttery new

--4 steps of obstacle course for 10 rounds with other kids: Jumping on and off 4 steps triangular hilltops, walking backwards on the balance beam, jumping in 4 colored rings with feet apart and together alternately, and lacing jumbo beads to improve compliance, body awareness, orientation, activity tolerance, work behaviors, cognition, sensory input and gross, fine motor skills, sitting, and waiting between rounds.

I enjoyed this and found it to be a decent challenge. The course then continued on going against the mountain and made its way to one short trail up a small incline and came to the next obstacle that was a slanted wall with a rope called the “Atlas Wall”. With my Icebug Zeal's on, I love these slanted walls with a rope to help as most of the time they are a nice and easy obstacle and best of all, give me the chance to help other racers get up and over the walls by either helping or coaching them. Once up and over this obstacle the course continued down the mountain for a short distance and came to the next obstacle which was a fun water slide. The course continued on a short distance back up the mountain and then came to the next obstacle which also happened to be the second obstacle of the course, the black plastic tubes and this time racers crawled through the black tubes we had jumped over at the beginning of the course. A short sprint later was a crawl under another set of black half tubes that we also happened to do as an obstacle earlier in the course. At this point course now back near the festival area made its way through a gated fence section and came to a section of the Platinum Rig that was set up as a pretty high rope climb, I have

The course pretty much included obstacles I have seen before at my other BattleFrog races and including “60 Degrees” which did have one minor modification from last year, it now has square bar sections replacing the round ones. I have always been a big fan of this inverted bars obstacle and was happy to see it still in the obstacle arsenal. Other obstacles included “Confident Climb” which is a high cargo climb much like the obstacle of the same name used by several US special forces training courses. Platinum Rig # 1 and Platinum Rig # 2 where both on the course and played a major role in deciding both the male and female podiums.

On a day in which the sun was shining like a new fluorescent light bulb, I sat on a heated metal bench that was located in front of a large, stone fountain where a brace of ducks lingered, and I began to read Chasing Brooklyn.

I'm from Buffalo, NY however I'm living in Philadelphia this summer as I have an internship. I would attend Erie Community College located in Buffalo, NY online. I also have a college class I took in high school and have the transcript from the college I took it at. Attached is their course catalogue for summer online classes. Thank you for your help.

As a Christmas present one year, I got the most amazing gift from my mom, two tickets to a show to see Theresa Caputo, The Long Island Medium. The show was in Newark and we were both super stoked to go. The theater was extremely packed, making it a very unlikely chance we would hear from our loved ones. On the plus side, Theresa's husband sat next to us and my mom was freaking out the whole time, it was just embarrassing. When Theresa finally came out the whole crowd cheered while she walked out with her big, puffy blonde hair and cat claw nails. Before the show started, she gave the advice to everyone to "embrace life to the fullest extent." Those words hit me and I decided I would follow them. I mean, you only get one life so you might as

Comfortably nestled right at the intersection of Highway 79 and Interstate 45 is an easily passed over town, with just four stop lights, named Buffalo. To the thousands that mindlessly drive through every day, it may not seem like much, but between those four stoplights and down the countless backroads, is where I have learned many lessons, had many laughs, and ultimately become the person that I am today. The people of Buffalo, as well as my family are the reason I have been able to grow and excel and become successful throughout High School.

Challenges- The difficulties that will come along the way of one’s path. The Panama Canal and the Moai. What is the Panama Canal and the Moai, you might ask. These are two wonderful projects that faced many difficult challenges along the way of being made. Challenges are everywhere. They are in the Panama Canal, the Moai, and everything in general.

It’s the challenge itself that people learn from. There isn’t any point to making things a challenge for no good reason so it’s about taking on the right challenges and calculating risks to a point that justifies them when compared to the challenge that is faced to accomplish them. Truth be told, it was a challenged for me to take that risk and slide down the tube tunnel and I did not regret doing so because I know at that point thats what I wanted. If it hadn't been for that challenge, I wouldn't be able to see what I am capable of doing.

Physical challenges on adventures should not be too complicated because complicated challenges delay parties. They may disrupt the rising action and even frustrate the players in an out-of-character manner.