Stanhope Day Narrative

Today I am talking about how my best friend and I met. My best friend’s name is Sydney Rott. The story of how we met is a cliché but I am going to explain it anyway. We didn't know each other up until my Sophomore year and her Junior year. I decided I wanted to go out for the tennis team, even though I have never really played before, I still decided to join. Sydney was the number one player for the Harrisburg Tennis Team. I thought that she was a brat when I first met her, but as time went on I started to like her.

Savannah was the dorky girl with multi-colored hair, big glasses, and a Harry Potter backpack. I was the “not too weird, but not popular either” average high school student just keeping to myself. We had two classes together aat Woodrow Wilson Classical High School, English 1-2 with Mrs. Majdali and Geometry with Mrs. Sternin. The classes were back to back so we would always walk the same way to and from our classes. It was the proximity, always being around her, that really started our relationship (O’Hair, Wiemann, Mullin & Tevin, 2015). A relationship that is still going strong even though she now is going to LSU and lives in Louisiana.

Whether it was during lunch time or during class. We always had a lot to talk about. During our conversation at lunch one day, I learned so much more about her other than she likes sports. I asked Briana what her favorite foods were. She told me pizza and hot dogs. I couldn’t believe that we even liked the same type of foods. “That’s my favorite too”, I told Briana. Then I asked her what does she like on her hot dogs. She said; “only ketchup”. I told her, “I like ketchup, mustard and relish on my hotdog and my favorite pizza is pepperoni pizza”. Briana said, she couldn’t believe how much we were alike. I told her neither could I and that we were so much alike, we could pass for twins. We both just

It was the last last few days of summer before I started my Sophomore year of high school. My freshman year I applied and ran to be Sophomore class president, and I won. Before the start of school SGA (Student Government Association) had the responsibility to welcome and show new students around the school. While showing and bonding with new students I meet two new sophomores students named Ethan and Olivia. Ethan was a very attractive young man who was six feet and had nice dark hair, that was swooped to the right. Olivia on the other hand was a very short and pale girl who had orange hair that was very thin. Olivia and I both found Ethan to be attractive, Olivia made it known to me that she liked Ethan. It was the first day of school and

After my friends/colleagues arrive, we all head outside to where the After School program kids are being fed by the YMCA volunteers. On the first day of arriving to Vista College Prep, all the kids asked me what my name was and I told them. As soon as I told them, they went crazy with excitement since one of the children had the same as me, Zion. As soon as this happened, they were tugging on my shirt and I felt this establishment of comfortability the kids would have with me. I had never met someone with the same name as me and it felt like looking in the mirror. This kid, Zion, actually looks similar to me. The YMCA volunteers, Shai and Francis, did not talk to me at first, as I saw them more frequently, I started talking to them. Now, we serve the children together along with some laughs. After the kids are done eating, we switch to activities, which are outside and are usually sports, specifically basketball and soccer. When it is time to transition into to the next part of the day, all of the children line up at the

The long 172 days had finally passed, and the day I had been waiting for, for months, had finally come. We were in Chicago for my One Direction concert, the day couldn’t have come faster. The agonizingly slow hours that passed that day was too much to bear. Before arriving at Soldier Field, I was highly anticipating meeting one of my closest friends, Jessica, for the first time. It’s actually rather incredible to me, we first were introduced on social media, we didn’t know each other at all, all we knew was that we both loved the same band, and we were both going to the same concert. Prior to meeting for the first time, we were restricted to Skyping each other almost every other day and texting every day.

On our way to the zoo i asked her a couple questions about her life such as, “ what do you like to do on your free time?” She replied, “ read read read, i love reading.” I've always wished i liked reading as much as other people, but i just can't get into a book unless it's worth reading. Shannon felt the same way she said, “ I didn't like reading till i was in college.” “ The trick is to picture yourself as the main character in the book and go from there.” As we approached the zoo we met the fellow classmates of mine, her husband, and her son. Walking over to meet them was nerve wracking, it was scary enough meeting shannon now i have to meet her husband and son. All the nervousness was in my head of course, when i met her husband Adam, he immediately made me feel like i was more than a stranger he just met. Cole, her 3 year old son who just started talking was shy, but as we started to walk around he began to lighten up. At the beginning he hid behind his moms leg, and now he was trying to talk to me, ask me to go play with him, and asked if i was gonna come with them to the

When I was a kid, a girl lived next door to me. She was beautiful, graceful, and overall a kind person. Her name was Riley. I remember the times where I hung out with her. She was a cool girl who didn’t mind a boy hanging around with her. We often spent our time swinging on a rope in the park and playing tag. In time, I felt… attached to her. I wanted to tell her this. However, something happened.

One of my nicest friends when I moved from Azores, Portugal to Minot, North Dakota in 2005 was Nicole Hamm. Nicole and I met at the CDC in Minot Air Force Base, in September of 2005. Ever since we met each other we have became unseperatable, until she moved to Florida in the summer of 2015 but we still talk. When we first met she was kind, and caring. There was never a day where she didn't make me laugh so hard that I was crying. When I first met her, we played 20 questions. My first question was what is your favorite color? Yet, her answer was neon purple ( not purple it had to be neon purple). As we kept playing I found that she likes to play Legos, and Minecraft with her younger brother and that she loves to watch Monster High and My

My story begins when my mom and I moved from Crafton, near Pittsburgh, to my grandparents’ house in Schwenksville at the beginning of first grade. In Crafton, there were not a lot children in my neighborhood; therefore, my wonderful mother and heart rending loneliness were my only friends. Fortunately, in my grandparent’s huge neighborhood, there were three amazing girls that became my best friends. However, those girls were not enough to combat my loneliness. At times these girls were mean to me, but my caring mother was there to lift my spirits. My mother was understanding and always knew what to say when I was lonely. As the story continues my life will hit an unexpected turn when I accepted a last minute invitation from a friend to attend

SJ and I were polar opposites. Two young girls forced into an unforgiving world and left to sink or swim. SJ's life lived on a tight rope balanced between the sweet devout Christian girl who loved her family and the sexually promiscuos girl who experimented with drugs and sneaking out to meet up with the boy toy of the week. Her two parent, two story home protected her for only so long as she stepped off her tight rope and went head first into a world that she never was supposed to belong to, the world that I belonged in. I met SJ in my third high school in as many years. That day she left her two story home to come to my one-half parent, two bedroom apartment.

Delaney loves to talk so much that when she came late to practice every day, she would see that there was ten people in one lane and four in the other and still continue to hop in the lane with ten people. Annie, being the kind soul she is, would take one for the team and move to the other lane. Even though we all got frustrated at Delaney for doing this, we all knew it was because she wanted to be with her friends. She smiles all the time and doesn’t meet a stranger. She is one of the nicest people I have ever known. A few months ago she drove all the way out to Oakland, with a Sonic blast, to see me after all of my seizures. Before that Delaney and Pepita came to the walk in memory of Rachel to support me. All of these moments are just a few of the thousands we have together. Not only will I miss her in the pool, I will miss her at school and going to her house to see Lucy and her loving family. Delaney, Isabel, and I call ourselves the trio and now it will be just be a

By the end of the week I had gained more than one hundred new friends, that I didn’t want to leave. I am fortunate enough to live nearby some of them, but others live over thousands of miles away. The first person that I connected with was Haley from Elmore City. She also won this trip from the same co-op that I did. We bonded throughout the whole trip, and we still talk to each other to this day. We support each other at sporting events and plan to meet up in the future. After only knowing her for one week, I could already tell we were going to get along just

It was an ordinary Wednesday night at youth group at church. The group decided to for snow cones at Tropical Sno. My friend, Sara McGuigan, parents would never allow her to ride in the car with any teenage driver. Sara convinced her mom to let her ride with me to Tropical Sno and I would take her home before nine p.m. We were on the way to her house on Jeff road and I turned off of Wall Triana onto Harbin Road.

About two months earlier had signed up for a Camp in Indiana called YMCA Camp Potawotami. My neighbor who is a year younger than me went to camp with me. We got to our summer camp on the Sunday before. I had a lot of fun, but my part of this event, is when the girls in my cabin and I became true friends.