Theme : Follow Your Dreams, And Never Give Up

The morning was foggy and I could see the front of my school through my window. It was a nice sight to see. I walked into the kitchen to make myself a bowl of cereal and there she was with her head down on the table. I could tell that she arrived a couple of hours ago because the tears hadn’t dried from her cheeks yet. I got myself ready gave her a kiss on her forehead and headed off to school. I had walked into class eager to see what my teacher Mrs. Padron had in store for today. Every single day there was something new to learn and there’s something about that infinite nature of learning that really appealed to me as a child. I cherished those 7 hours I spent in class the most I could and I dreaded the mere thought of having to go home where I would have to face the

The stench of death hit my nostrils as I opened the door to go inside, which is why I always hated going to the hospital. We waited the fifteen minute queue, until I heard my name from a nurse. I followed the nurse into a small, beige room. I sat down on the examining table, as my doctor walked in. I told him my symptoms, and he did a quick check up. His cold fingers pressed against my lower back. “Breathe in and out.” He said. I did as told. “Slower.” he exclaimed. At that moment, while I was slowly breathing in and out, I could hear a small click every time I inhaled. The doctor looked up and said, “Ahhh, you seem to have pneumonia.” He explained to my mom and I what that meant because we were clueless. After he finished, he told us that if I waited any longer to go to the hospital, he wouldn’t be speaking to me, which opened my mom’s eyes finally. He told me that I couldn’t go to school for at least another two weeks, gave me a school note and my prescription. We left the hospital. My mom dropped me off, and went to pick up the medication. As I lay in bed, I remember thinking about everything that has happened to me in the past two days, and what the doctor told me. Those thoughts were interrupted by the opening of my bedroom door as my mom walked in. She handed me the medication. I swallowed the pills, and fell asleep. The next morning my mom walks in with a stack of papers. She said, “It’s alright if you’re not able to attend class,

One day there were four kids playing the playstation. Their names were Korey, Javi, Cole, AJ and Lane. Then Korey’s mom called all of them for lunch. Then they went outside, but there was a really old house. We asked my mom and she said, “ yes but but careful”. Then we decided to go to the house at night. So we ate dinner, and then went into my room to get dressed in black spy clothes. At about 11:50 we started to drive down to the old house by riding my atv. It took us ten minutes to get there. We made sure that we had all the gear that we needed. So we went inside, and we saw a dusty dinner table, and we saw old silverware.It was only 12:00 we promised my mom we would be back by 6:00 Then we stuffed started to get strange we was tired so

I breathed in the after rain smell. It must have rained the night before but I hadn’t seen it so I wasn’t aware that it would be wet. As I strolled onto the sidewalk and began my route to school I stomped on the wet, fallen leaves. I walked about a half mile each day to get to Florence Nightingale High school , or as I liked to call it, my daily prison. It was a good high school but it was still a high school. The usual American high school is full of people who are unsure of themselves and because of their un-surety, they feel the need to others down. Now take those people and add in an over-confident deaf girl into the mix and that's my every day. I am extra isolated but that’s fine by me. I really don’t care what they say about me. It's not like I can hear it

With all of the cracks in the ceiling of your bedroom, you can see the stars at night and the sun in the morning. With all of the old rotted hardwood floors, you hope to stay in that room until the morning and not end up in the room below you. At night you start to stare around your room as you fall asleep, then you see a splatter of blood on the wall and you get up and check behind the door and see HELP written all in blood. And at the vent there’s tons of blood leading down it. Then you hear a noise come from the room below, and when you go and see whats making the noise, there’s a girl in a chair and shes all tied up. Then you realize, that girl in the chair is your daughter. Right after you untie her the window bursts wide open with

The morning was cold cause the Furnace did not work which probably the reason the houses pay requirement was so low to buy. I got but of course my parents were gone to work already so I though maybe to Facebook my friends in Florida but my father did not know how to start the wifi so i proceeded into the basement to hook the network up. As i slowly stepped down the steep old stairs i began to see an array of board games very amused I tried to grab one but then a very dark feeling came over me and I felt way too sick to move. I lie there on the floor crying praying for the moment to end. Just then I awoke in the car with all of the luggage on our way the our cozy new yorkers

One day in Michigan, we decided to go to Lake Michigan. We went to the beach. It was one of those it's-very-windy type of days. At the beach there was giant dunes the size of small mountains. So we decided to climb up the dunes. When we got to the top it looked like we could see the whole world. My mom and Justin decided to walk down the safe path.. Me on the other I decided to run down the sandy dune. So I ran as fast as I could jumping when you jump it feels like you jumped the the whole dune when I got to the middle I jumped again and when I landed the was a log in front of me I hit the log and tumbled the whole way down the dune. Once I stopped I realized how much I got hurt. I had cuts all over me and a giant scar that

One dark night Chad sent out a text to the youth group at his church. Chad is the pastor at his church. The text asked if Corbin and bob could meet him at the church. Chad's son was josh and he went to dolly wood with my sister Margaret. I went with tom and corbin. Tom is weird and bob is just bob, there is nothing cool about him. On the way to the church I was excited cause i was going to get to play piano. Almost there and suddenly we heard a boom and a crash. I looked over and heard everyone screaming, i thought it was all over. We were in a wreck! I was hurt. I twisted my ankle and couldn't walk. I had an x ray and it wasn't broken. I was so relieved. I didn't get to play piano but it was okey. After the wreck the whole church

"Look! a river Wanna catch some fish?" Roberto said. I tried to say no because we need to get back to find mama and papa and our brothers and sisters but i was really hungry i didn't say a word i just started making a fire to cook the fish on. "So is that a yes?" Roberto said. "Yep" i replied, we spent about thirty minutes till we caught two fish we cooked them, we walked for about 2 hours till we made it to bonetti ranch. we have been gone for a day i wondered if mama and papa went looking for us me and Roberto started yelling for everyone then we turned to a corner and saw mama and papa and all of are siblings i was so happy that i started to cry after we hugged and cried we talked about what we were going to do. Papa only has a green card what are the rest of us going to do? I said. "Is America even safe anymore?" Roberto claimed. No we might have to move back to Mexico mama said with tears in her eyes. After talking we all decided Mexico would be safer for all of us. We all helped pack up and got in the carcachita and drove to the border. Our whole car had gloom around it we were all very upset that we had to leave but we still drove and drove and drove till we went to the border back to

I finally understood why my mom was nagging me to do all these things . The slight change in mindset would eventually completely change my school career. It wasn’t easy though, I struggled a lot at the beginning, but then sure enough, I was talking with my friend and I brought up the point I had just that I put together. After I told him he disagreed, he said that some people are smart and some aren't, but once I explained that if the stupidest most popular person in the world decided that instead of being popular decided they would be smart, If they worked hard they’d be just fine. Yet did I know that this would changed The way I thought about everything forever. And there we were sipping on our cans of ginger ale, the two of us would never think the same, but at the time we cared much more about what kind of bug just flew into one of our cans or why our teacher had not given back our assignments for a month. At first it felt like nothing but soon it began to trickle in our bodies that we had completely changed the complexion of our thinking, when me and my friend had finally understood how we could be smart and have other qualities and not be judged in school. From then on my me and him both got better grades and had what I’d say was a successful year. Everybody has a genius , it just depends on how you use it. Whatever life throws next, I’m

My beautiful glowing wife of 20 years. We --- well she --- had always planned to travel in her old age. She had banked on us travelling together. We had planned a lifetime together; we had built a family together. What would happen now? My eyes began to water and my nose stung as I thought of her living to the edge of her life without me to comfort her in times of grief and loneliness. The only cure I found for my pain was oblivion. This time however, instead of more peaceful, the room grew darker as I closed my eyes --- darker and so alone. That night I laid curled up under the sheets of my oh so comforting hospital bed, shivering. Life hits

February twenty-third 2010 was just a regular ordinary day. I was on my way to class on this cold February afternoon, when my phone rung. It was my cousin on the other end telling me to call my mom. I could not figure out what was wrong, so I quickly said okay and I hung up and called my mom. When my mom answered the phone I told her the message but I said I do not know what is wrong. My mom was at work and could not call right away, so I took the effort to call my cousin back to see what was going on. She told me that our uncle was in the hospital and that it did not look good. Starting to tear up I pull over in a fast food restaurant parking lot to listen to more to what my cousin had to say. She then tells me to tell my mom to get to

It was a warm and colorful fall day. I was a happy eight year old planning on enjoying this beautiful Saturday. I woke up to the smell of bacon, eggs, and pancakes cooking down stairs. I ran downstairs as fast I could. Not surprising, I saw my mom making fluffy pancakes I was starving and couldn’t wait to eat them. We started eating breakfast and the pancakes tasted as good as they looked. It was Saturday so I knew that after breakfast, I had chores to do. My first chore that I had to do was vacuum the stairs. “Oh, easy!” I said, when my mom told me. But then she said, “There’s still more to do after that, Alexa!” As I was vacuuming the stairs, my friend Vanessa called me. She said, “Hey Alexa! Do you and Liv want to come over later today?” I was so excited and I said “Yes! But I have to do some chores first!” I puttered over to my mom and told her that Vanessa had called asking if Olivia and I could come over later. She said that I could go, I just needed to get the rest of my chores done! So, I dusted the piano, washed the dog, and emptied the dishwasher.

School was like a nightmare. I was failing my classes. Somehow I could not keep up. I thought that maybe doing my homework now would make me feel better and take my mind off it, but it only made it worse. I was debacle. Those daunting notions continued. They were inexorable. I grasped my Chromebook from my bookbag and turned it on. I opened up the browser and started searching what I wanted to do. A tear started rolling down my cheek; I wipe it away. “I’m

It was finally 8 and my mom came in and told me to get dressed and eat breakfast before we get picked up to go to the meeting. I was at the meeting and we got our blood drawn by a nettle and given a number and told to go over with are age and line up in order with are numbers. I got to the 12 and I looked at my hand at my number I was lucky 810 hopefully. I saw 800 and 850 then I saw 809 then I said hello and stood behind a small girl. She looked at me and whispered I am really nervous I always have bad luck on getting what I want to get. I just smiled what sport do you want I asked nicely she said I really love doing swim. Attention please quiet down said a voice I did not know where it was coming from so I looked around trying to find what we call the government stage. Then I saw it was the lady that I gave me my bike when I turned 9 she was really scary looking. Her name was Gloria she said while let’s get started she started with new families like always she congratulate our neighbor who got a baby boy and then finally he congratulated my mom and thanked her for all her hard work Lucy was not the normal baby girl she weighs 1 pound when we got her and they told my mom that this was going to be a challenge. Gloria finished off by thanking the family that got a new family member. Finally Goria moved on to the 1 Lucy was the first one called my mom carried her up to get her swing and then she came back down. Then 2 3 4 5 6