Personal Narrative: My Oldest Fossils

The artifact represents personal objects and meaningful moments, person influence on our own life. This is one of the assignment in our program to share our artifacts toward our colleagues and professors. This will take in more about different culture, uniqueness, identity and values of our schoolmates and how they reflected in their life.

My grandmother Lynne Murphy is who I chose to interview for my heritage project. This summer at a family birthday party I was speaking short phrases in Spanish while joking around with my dad. My grandmother, sitting beside us, joined in the conversation and starting speaking fluent Spanish. I had no idea she could speak Spanish, so I asked her, “How can you speak Spanish?” Before answering my question she laughed. She went on to tell me that she lived in South America for many years as a teenager. I didn’t have the chance to learn anymore about her childhood until this project was assigned. When I learned we were to focus on a family member’s experience growing up, I immediately thought about my grandmother and the interesting life she seemed

My favorite writing project was in 8th grade. Everyone in my class had to pick one person who has changed the world in one way or another such as Ghandi or Nelson Mandela. I chose John Lennon. Each class period my class would go to the computer lab to do research and type our papers. We were supposed to write our paper in MLA format, we were not allowed to use contractions, and had to make sure that we cited our resources all the way down to the page number. There were 3 drafts we had to turn in starting with the outline of our ideas and organization of the information that we were going to write about. Then there was the rough draft without our sources cited and lastly, the finished copy. It was a lot of work, but I learned so much about John

In my earliest years, I can recall one of our projects with my 1st grade teacher. It was very memorable for me, because we went all out for it. The project like most of us in that class remember was to write a story. The story was Flat Stanley. I was mostly ahead of my game in my early years. Then, there came my 5th grade year, The teacher i had in that class always got on me, for not paying attention. I almost got held back that year because i couldn’t focus. That year onward, was a struggle for me.

I grew up in a Vietnamese family of four. My parents lived in Vietnam before I was born. They migrated over here because they knew that their lives would be much more stable, and in the long run it would benefit them. I was raised to respect my elders and those around me, to be kind and humble. I value my family and friendships, because they are the one who helps me and supports my decisions. Without my family and friends, I wouldn’t be who I am today. I believe that if people work hard enough they will become successful. My parents were given the opportunity to come to the U.S. They knew that coming to the U.S means that they had to start all over. Like learning a new language to be able to communicate with peoples. They knew that they had

Growing up with two different Heritages is like growing up in two different worlds, it was tough growing up being Native and Hispanic I would either get made fun of because I was Native or I was made fun of for being Hispanic. I guess you can say that I have somewhat of a different life, living with any Hispanic family but considering myself more Native, because just at home i just speak spanish, and eat amazing food made by my mother who isn’t even Hispanic who’s just Native American who didn’t consider herself Native American because she herself lived with my grandmother or she lived with a family friend who was Hispanic and showed her things about a culture that she didn’t know anything about.

During the months of June and July, I volunteered at the Gene Rodenberry Planetarium in El Paso, TX. Working as a Volunteer Leader during planetarium events (both indoor and on various locations in the El Paso region). I have actually volunteered at the Gene Rodenberry Planetarium for about 2 years, and every day I was able to learn something not only about the universe but also on how to improve myself as a leader.

Nautilus elementary, 5th grade. Probably the grade that every kid either had crazy times and bad experiences. At this time, I was not the greatest at reading. Reading was at the bottom of my list because I thought it was pointless. Avoiding all the reading assignments that my crazy teacher gave us to complete. She was ridiculous! Made us read a book a week and then test the book the following week. This test was called an a.r test, this test not only showed that we understood and read the book but it also calculated our reading level. Being at a grade and half lower reading level was not the greatest. Always failing all the test and my grade dropping lower and lower didn’t make my look like a good kid. A couple of months went by and I

After the initial shock and awe of finding out I was pregnant after 10 years of struggling and wondering if I would ever have the baby I had been dreaming of for so long, I began to plan every detail of my birth. I found a midwife and birth center when I was 8 weeks pregnant. I hired a doula at 12 weeks. My birth plan was written and finalized at 24 weeks. Every detail was planned-I had even planned the song that would be playing when my son would make his appearance. I'm a recovering control freak.

I knew that it was the perfect day to go out and explore an incredible place.

My earliest memory of being a student was when I attended school at Nolanville elementary (outside of Harker Heights). I remember every morning we would all gather around in a circle and the teacher would pick a student to help her teach the class, when she would choose a student to help her, the responsibility of that child would

But all have died and are on a sandy plateau, Floro, Giraffy , Rocks, Happy-face, Smoothy, Starlight, and Birthday by name,

The discovery of DNA has impacted so many of our lives today. When I read your post, I must admit I had an “AH” moment. You learn something new every day, or at least try too. Furthermore, I did not know someone’s lung could collapse without some sort of impact. Thanks to your knowledge, you were able to save your son by getting him to the hospital. In the moment of pressure, you reacted just as a parent should, my hat goes off to you for that. I have eczema, so my first son was born with it; I had to teach him how to take care of it in times of inflammation. Nevertheless, I look for signs in my other kids as well. I enjoyed learning from reading your post it was very informational for me. Thanks to the scientist who took the time to be curious,

I am from the sweet smell of I.F.F. To the sight of sunnyside up eggs and soft, greasy bacon. From a silver Charger in the garage; a silver Malibu parked in the driveway. I’m from driving to the store on a nice, great Saturday then driving at 80mph on the highway. I’m from paleontology and marine biology. I am from carnivorous dinosaurs

When I used to live in Trinidad, I can remember when I was six years old in elementary school. My teacher, Ms. Brown, told the class, “We are going on a fieldtrip." The class was filled with exhilaration we cheered aloud. I, on the other hand knows what that mean a beginning of my