Personal Narrative: Running Water

Dustin Vaughan had a terrible game on Sunday night. He didn’t look comfortable in the pocket threw picks & just was all over the place with the ball. Showers showed poised while being very calm while in the pocket. When moving outside of the pocket he always kept his eyes downfield to look for open wide-receivers. The fact that Showers can play special teams and make tackles he wouldn’t be a waste to use for the 46 game day roster if coaches decide to use him. I also considered that the Cowboys could go back to keeping two quarterbacks and hoping they could land Showers on practice squad.

On September 1, 2012, I walked into my fifth grade teacher’s classroom for the first time in my life. Mrs.Cullen was standing in the front of the door with open arms ready to welcome her new fifth grade students. As I made my way to my desk and sat down next to Charlie Schutt and Quin Timmerman, I got the feeling that middle school would be a time of talking to some of my best friends and cruising through classes. As the school year progressed, and classroom seats changed, my thought of how Middle school would be changed as well. On the first day Mrs.Cullen explained our schedule, Homework detentions, and demerits. After about fifty questions, she sent us off to our first class, and the first step of our Middle School journey. The fifth grade

Growing up in the city of Flint, Michigan shaped me into the person I am today. Just recently my community was faced with another crisis. Occurring just a few weeks ago was the “Flint Water Crisis”; it was and will forever be remembered as a community wide tragedy. I got the feeling that I needed to do something to help those who were victims to this. I did my best to volunteer at as many places that were giving out free fresh water, such as with the Upward Bound Program on the Mott Community College campus.

In the early months of 2016, I learned of the water crisis taking place in Flint, Michigan. When I heard the first reports of what had taken place, I was in disbelief. I could not believe that a city in America had citizens who could not obtain clean drinking water. I assumed everyone had a right to clean water. I was personally challenged and moved by the sufferings of the people in Flint, I wondered how I could help.

The first thing I ever felt was intense wind and somehow I knew that when I opened my eyes alI I would see is blue. Light pale grey blue. Blue so light that the horizon can’t tell where the grey water ends and the sky begins. Blue that promises rain and storms and chaos. I was sitting on something. Something with scales and muscles pumping, up and down, up and down and I could only grin because I knew. When I finally opened my eyes and looked at the dragon on whose back I sat, all I could feel was peace. Peace in the air with the slate skies. The dragon pushed harder, flapping it’s wings faster. Up up up up. I thought the farther up we went, the less air there would be, but no. There was more. I felt it in my blood. It flowed in constant wind, sending us through the layers and layers of atmosphere.

I was invited to Save Tacoma Water (STW) Meeting this morning at 9 a.m. When I received an invitation for the meeting from a member of STW, the meeting supposed to be held at Tully’s. But it didn’t include the address. I sent a text message to the member requesting the address a 7:40 a.m. The member didn’t reply. Since I met some STW members last Wednesday, I assumed Tully’s at 24 N. Tacoma Ave. I live in Browns Point area so it takes me about 22 miles round trip. I arrived at 9:03 but I couldn’t see anyone from STW. I called the member to find the address. The member send me text that he/she was in the meeting. But all I want was just address so I can be at the meeting. Why couldn’t he/she send me the address instead of texting me “I’ll call

In America, there are many crisis that affects us as citizens of our country. Whether or not these crisis affect us financially, mentally or physically, these are still important events that go on within our country that needs more attention. Immediate actions should be taken when such crisis occur or are ongoing, so other crisis can be dealt with. Especially with the amount of crisis going on in America one has to be controlled for another possible crisis to be taken care of. Three crisis I will be talking about are hunger in america, the opioid crisis, and the Flint Michigan water crisis.

When I got back, my tub water was almost all over the place. I turn my water off and took off all my school clothes and put them on the counter. Then I put my phone right next to my bath even though it might not be smart. I put my bath salts in the water, then I grab the bath bomb and put my foot in there to check the temperature. Its a tad bit too hot. Both of my feet went in the water and eventually my whole body did. I drop my bath bomb and watch it dissolve which made my bath water turn to a pale pink color. As soon as I lean back, my phone rings. It's my Aunt Jane.

I have live in East Orange for the past nine years. During my stay in East Orange I have moved four times. I currently live on South Harrison in an apartment complex. In my time of living in the United States of America, I had not wondered of where my water came from. This fact that I know everything can kill me. How I die makes no difference. When posed the question of where my water came from I became intrigued. I was not sure where to locate this data an asked Dr. Daniel Van Abs , he told me to look at the Consumer Confidence report for my city. This then directed me to the EPA website. In my research, I found that because I live in South Harrison, East Orange New Jersey, my tap water is directed by the East Orange Water Commission (EOWC).

I was with my family and the stop and not a lot of gasoline day but we found a small country that almost abandoned I did not find people and I felt as if someone was watching us and I thought that i was going to give but It was wrong me and my family are looking to see if there people to give us water and we could not find anybody but we realized that they are hiding they think that we are bad because I already had a lot of people who do not stop in the small country and I told them that we are not bad that we did not come to buy water and person come out and asked them if they sell waters and the person said they are grabbing here they got lost and I answered we did not run out of water the person said yes and we said thank you we were thirsty

I went into your store on Friday 7-8-2016 and bought a 23.7 oz. bottle of Smart Water. The store was very busy at the time and the lines where long. I did not realize at the time but the cashier over charged me for the water. However I did pay with my debt card and just swiped without really listening to the cashier.

Hi I'm Jiji the water drop. I started out in lake Success I floated all day and night in the ocean. Until one day I became part of the water cycle. First thing that comes in the water cycle is evaporation that is where you float up into the sky it was so fun it is like you are flying without wings. That is only the first step to the water cycle. To be evaporated you have to be in a puddle, or any body of water got it so go get in a body of water and come back.

After my challenge of 8 glasses of water a day for 8 weeks; I think my personal behavior has changed, I am not as moody anymore, I don’t have a huge issue about being perfect, I’ve learned that I become much more focused on schoolwork while drinking water. My overall health has improved, my bowel movements are much smoother, my skin isn’t dry all the time, however I have realized I’ve been feeling more colder since the challenge but that also could be because of the current weather and finally I think my pain tolerance has increased (when I wax my legs it doesn’t hurt as much). I choose to do this behavior because I personally believe that soon Canada will be having the same water issues as America and I want to take advantage

After waiting an entire week, my broke down car is finally running. I decided to fix it instead of paying somebody else. I called a few mechanics, so that they could inspect my car. They figured out what the problem was, but the price was not a price that I wanted to hear. The reason the car broke down is because of the old worn out water pump. The price for the water pump is only forty dollars, but the price for labor is what makes it expensive. All together to replace the water pump was going to cost me, three hundred and fifty dollars. I don’t have that kind of money, instead I told the mechanic that as soon as I get the money that I would call him. I immediately surfed online to find tutorial video, luckily I found one. The video explained

In this story Salva was an 11 year old boy who lived In Sudan and was living with his family. One day when he went to look at the list he was finally on it to be able to leave and go to New York and have a new home and family. He eventually got enough money to be able to build a water well for the people in Sudan because they never had enough clean water or any water at all. Salva worked super hard so that he would be able to build this well for is friends and family so they will all have fresh and healthy water to drink. Before, one of their biggest problems was not having enough water that clean or not having any water at all. While they were all drinking mud and dirt water many people were dying from germs or any kind of bad water drinking