Personal Narrative: My Trip To Peoria Illinois

It was a nice summer morning we I was all of a suden shoke like turbulence on a plane to wake up. It turns out I slept threw my alarm to wake up for the day. It was about 11:00 am and today we were heading to Florida and our flight takes off at 1:00 pm. You may think that we had time to make the airport in Milwaukee but, we had to drive all the way to Chicago, Illinois because there was no flight for Florida in Milwaukee. Luckily I had packed the day before with the rest of my family so all we had to do was wait for our aunt Lisa to take us to the aiport in Chicago. She showed up five minutes later with a mini van and there was about seven of us jammed in there. It was alright for me because in our family if you called “shot-gun” or “I

As our two senior captains closed the practice with their last words I will never forget Claire Basetti saying "Girls, this is my last year here at Wood, all I want right now is this team, my favorite team of sisters I've had at Wood, to win this State Championship". From that practice on, we played our hearts out for the person playing next to us. As we made it to the Giant Center once again in March of 2016, we ended up beating Villa with a lead of seventeen points. The feeling we all felt rushing onto the court as we won when the clock ran out to 00:00 was one of the best feelings I will never forget. That season really taught me that when things don't feel right the way they are going, that talking the problems or feelings out with others definitely helps. If our coach didn't have that one practice dedicated for us I highly doubt we wouldn't have won that game. Winning the State Championship is definitely one of the best moments I'll remember for the rest of my life, and especially the sisterhood I made with my best

I have written many essays since I was in middle school yet most of my writing was not that important besides for a grade. Yet there is one piece of writing I wrote that change my life and felt that it had an important impact to The City of Chicago. My teacher during that time wanted the class to enter in a citywide competition, which is called “Do The Write Thing”. It is a way for students to voice their opinions on how to stop the violence in Chicago. I wanted to help reduce the violence in Chicago since many youths are being killed in the streets every single day. In my paper, I mainly focused on three body paragraphs. The first one was why the violence in the city was increasing. The second one was some type of violence that I have witness in my own personal life. The final paragraph

In 2016, more than ever, the team was committed to and had one goal of winning. One of our biggest rivals was St. John’s College High School (SJCHS). My doubles partner and I played the last match of the WCAC championships against SJCHS. During the season, SJCHS was one of the hardest competitors we faced but walking onto the court on the final day of championships, my partner and I knew we would fight and win. After 45 minutes, I hit an ace and we won the match that put us in the lead to win the championships. October 30, 2016 was the single most exciting and overwhelming day for the team all season. Everyone’s hard work paid off.

I witnessed my cousins boyfriend corpse lying on my neighbors lawn. It was a humid summer night around 3:30 when I peeked through my window and saw my devastated cousin sobbing uncontrollably on my decaying porch. Being from East chicago, Indiana has transformed me into the person I am today.

We won we are going to state! In May 2015 my high school baseball team finally beat St. Thomas Moore in the regional championship to go play in the state tournament in Sioux Falls, that was something that the Winner/Colome baseball team has not done since 2009. So on May 30th 2015 we headed to the State tournament in Sioux Falls, and in the first game we played Dell Rapids. We ended up having to play 13 innings in about 95 degree weather we ended up winning to go to the championship where we would play West Central the team that was favored to win the championship. I am going to tell you a little about the plans, the expectations and what really happened to our baseball team last spring.

It was 7:00 in the morning when we arrived at the Johnston City High School. Once everyone arrived at the high school, we got on the bus and headed off to Benton. As we stepped foot on the bus, we all sat there quietly, nervous about the results of this game. This was the game that determined whether or not we went on to state. Coach Simon and Coach Shane gave us one of their what we like to call "before the game warm-up talks". We were all nervous of course, but we were all determined to win this game. We had been looking forwards to winning regionals and going to state the whole season and that day was the day that we gave us the opportunity to go to state. After the thirty minute bus ride, we finally got to Benton and once we got there,

there was nothing to do. all they have is a bar, (yes a bar, not 2 but 1) and I'm not a big

The city of Chicago has been displayed as a dangerous city in which all residents are affiliated with drugs, gangs, and misconduct of firearms. Whether someone fits into this stereotype or not, is normally based on their surroundings and their interactions with others. Growing up in Gage Park, named one of the worst neighborhoods, falling into this stereotype and becoming affiliated with drugs, guns, and gangs, would not be too hard for someone to do. However, I have lived in Gage Park my whole life and have not fallen into the status quo. I have had family members and friends fall into this realm of unpleasantness and watching them become another wrong kind of statistic is upsetting. I have been faced with the decision of continuing to have

Everyone started to have a positive attitude and started having fun again. We made an incredible comeback in the last inning to improve us to 2-0. With us having one of the best records we played a team from the losers bracket later on that day. It was an easy victory and put our record at 3-0. After our amazing day we celabrated like we just won the World Series even though we haven’t played our final game. The following day ,which is the last day of the tournament, we only need to win one game to make it to the championship. As we prepare for our first game of the day bad news struck. One of our best pitchers has suffered a lower ankle injury and isn’t able to play for the rest of the tournament. You could see the look on all of our faces that it was just a terrible moment for our team , but like before when things get harder leaders have to step up. I pulled the team together and told them how we haven’t came this far and worked this hard for nothing. We played like we have never played before , we came out and completely took over. Being the youngest team in the tournament and making it to the championship is a huge achievement , but the tournament isn’t over

With all this going on we ended up making Forestburg Volleyball history. Making it the farthest the team has ever gotten in playoffs, the Regional Tournament. We sadly lost our first game there, but when the rest of the team was down from making simple mistakes, I kept my head up, and did my best to try and cheer them up, and that was our toughest loss of the season. I am proud of my team though, we played absolutely amazing this year, and made history! I can’t wait to come back and watch the girls play

We had an outstanding record of 26-3 winning the Region and District. That year we was the first to ever travel down to Chicago, Illinois and play for the National Championship. The players that were selected for the team was handpicked by the coach because he knew what the players were capable of doing. Every player had their own role on the team which made us so good. There was this one game when we played UConn Avery Point and it was a close game the whole time. The society was so different because there was gym was packed to the max with fans and specters. Going into that game we wasn’t prepared for that type of environment with students yelling our name, and making noise while we was at the free throw. As a team we stuck together and kept giving each other positive feedback and won the game. In the text there is a web that shows the

During the Game I was able to get a quotes from the people Ashley Simpson said “I love coming to the Magic City Classic every

It was a buffet style restaurant and was by far the best place to go eat at Cedar Point. You get anything you wanted! From fresh, crispy, salads to gooey mashed potatoes or spicy chinese food. The restaurant had everything! They even had Coke Freestyle Machines which let you make your own pop flavors. It’d been awhile since I had pop, so the taste of an ice cold coca-cola was extremely refreshing. After lunch we went and went on more roller coasters. Both of us were excited to go on the new ride called the Valravn but the wait was over 2 hours long. We decided to go on it despite the long wait in a crowd of loud, sweaty people. The wait surprisingly went by fairly quickly because we were able to keep ourselves entertained by playing games and cracking jokes. Finally the 2 hour wait was over, our feet were throbbing and we were anxious to experience the new amazing ride. We got buckled up and the ride blasted off. We felt the cool breeze in our face and heard the screams of our fellow riders. The adrenaline was rushing through my veins and I never wanted this feeling to stop. I was so happy to be here with my amazing girlfriend celebrating our 5 months

We got to the field and I said “See you later!” to my mom as she dropped me off and went to look for a parking spot. I went to my teammates who were nervous and excited. When our coach got there, we went on the field to start warmups.