Personal Narrative: The Statue Of Liberty

Despite the fact that the alarm is blaring at an earlier time than usual, I couldn’t be anymore ecstatic. I’d forgotten what it’s like to wake up in the City that never sleeps. Quickly getting dressed and running out the door, I look over my schedule. Still in disbelief

I looked down to the beautiful ocean. One morning I ate breakfast and took a nap then woke up to the crashing thunder. Everyone was screaming. No one in Germany has seen water for the past few years. I really wanted to dance in the rain but I know it was different. I was a big storm! I ran to my room and started to pack I know we had a few days until we saw the lady of liberty. I woke up to the sound of the horn from the time I got on the boat. I quickly checked to see if I forgot anything and ran out on the crowded deck. When the fog lifted all of the immigrants saw the lady of liberty. Everyone was surprised to see the copper lady of liberty. The first class finally got off of the boat and hurried off on to land. I was walking courasly to the large building. I was following the crowd. I got a number on my brown coat and sat down. It was a hard day. Yes! Finally! I finally touched the ground of the New York Harbor. I waited all my life to go into America. At first I didn’t know what to do so I walked around saying Sperancy douche (Do you speak German?) Finally someone tall looked at

This summer I went on a trip to pigeon forge tennessee and did a bunch of activities while I was there.Even though we did a lot of activities my favorite one was white water rafting which we did towards the end of the trip.It was the highlight of my trip

Ever since I was a little girl, New York City always seemed like a place that was magical. My family’s TV on Thanksgiving was always broadcasting the enormous balloons, extravagant floats, and millions of people lining the streets of the city for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. Freshman year, excited squeals and giggles erupted from my brother and I after our parents told us that we would be visiting New York City for the first time to witness the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. After several months of waiting and lots of turbulence, our plane hit the landing with a thunk at Laguardia airport and reality set in: we were in the city. Walking out of the airport was absolutely surreal. The sights, sounds, and smells surrounded my family and

It was the Spring of 1903, and I was part of a huge crowd of Immigrants packed onto one steamship. All I was hopeful for was to have a better life in America, as it was a land of hope where immigrants from all over the world came. However, my

We’re going to visit Washington D.C since my aunt and uncle moved there for their jobs last summer. We have to go on a plane and i’m so excited! I can’t stop thinking about all of the monuments and memorials i’ll see there. This is probably going to be the best 2 weeks of my life! I hope I have a great time.

“Give me Liberty or get me a Tent.” There have been better signs of course. But that was what my protest sign read for the first Occupy action I went to. I carried it proudly to a number of Occupy marches and rallies; for womens’ rights, for housing reforms, for improved prison conditions, and for a better educational system. But I made it for that first idealistic action: the Daylong Nonviolent Mass Occupation.

Today I arrived at Ms. Porter's house at 8:00am. We were supposed to go to Trenton to

The Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States from France. The man who designed it was

We continued like this until our shift ended, half asleep, yet still aware of our surroundings. Many more nights passed, some calm, some so stormy you couldn’t see your hand in front of your space. Turns out the delivery guys were right, somehow they managed to install the prop shaft on a floating ship, normally this is done in a dry dock, in less than a month. The captain stuck to his word and we continued onto New Orleans. When we got there we were treated like any normal boat, the dockworkers completely oblivious that we had spent 9 months in one of the most remote parts of the world. As we unloaded the cargo in the sweltering southern heat and the suffocating 90% humidity we gazed upon the ship more fondly than any before. She didn’t have the wind-worn masts or the huge white sails hanging from the masts, or the creaking timbers, but I felt more at home on it than any of uncountable amount of ships I sailed

On June 4th my life changed forever. My alarm went off at 6:30 normally it goes off at 8:30. Heart racing, I’m shaking; I hop out the bed and run into my parents room. “Mom, mom wake up do you know what day it is “I said. “ Ugh Bina it’s too

Worlds of Foot Pain “Beep, beep, beep,” my alarm clock went off at like five in the morning. That didn’t matter though, because today was the day I was going to Kansas City, Missouri for a few days, and we’d be going to Worlds of Fun first. I woke up when I realized today was the day. I woke my mom and sister up, and then started packing bags of clothes, toys, etc. My mom is always a bear in the morning, so she was grumpy for a little bit, and my sister was still that age where no matter what time of day it is, she’d always be hyper, which definitely wasn’t good for mom. “TURN YOUR CEILING LIGHT OFF,” she groaned at me, because she hates bright lights in the morning. I turned on my lamp instead, which wasn’t nearly as bright, but I was done

August 8, 2015 was the day of my graduation party, the memory stays vivid in my mind. After hours of creeping its way across the sky, the sun finally broke its way through my blinds and shined onto my face waking me up. Before I even opened my eyes to see what time it was I knew I had overslept. The night before I had promised my mom that I would get up early and help her to cook for the party. This was not the first time I had promised my mother that I would help her do something but only went on to let her down. Numerous times I had forgot to set an alarm or hit snooze one

As I walk up the stairs from New York Penn Station, all I remember thinking was “oh my god”. New York City is very heavily populated and it, without a doubt, makes for an interesting experience. Here I am; just a girl from Newton, Kansas, standing there in the heart of New York City.

Sure, the wait for a table was long, at least twenty minutes, but it was all worth it when, after another twenty minutes, the appetizers had reached our table. After leaving an empty plate of what I supposed was salad, the actual food we had ordered arrived, but I was too full to eat more than one-third of the plate of pasta. To try and build up another appetite, Annica and I played games on the little tablet they had connected to the table. We played a really fun trivia game on a level where we had to guess character names. After we left Olive Garden, we got ready for Moses. My mom wanted me to dress nice while I was gone, so I wore a black shirt with a tuxedo design and my ‘fancy’ watch.