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Have you ever went on a vacation, birthday, special event, or somewhere fun? Well I have! I had a blast at South Carolina. We go on a vacation almost every summer and we always have a blast, but last summer we went to South Carolina. Me (Alexis) and my sister (Kinzey) went with my Dad (Aaron) and his girlfriend (Kristen) and it was fun. All of us went to the beach a lot and one girl that was there got stung by a jellyfish and I touched a jellyfish that was lying on the ground ! We swam a lot

Every family has their own way of celebrating Thanksgiving and giving thanks. Today, this holiday is a time for reunions, watching and playing football, but most importantly, food. Not only is this a day for eating, but it also gives a pass on our diets and stuffing our faces. For millions of people all across America, this is a day where cooking, eating, and spending time with the important people in one’s life comes to play. This is the time of year where everyone is bundled up in cozy sweaters

and my cousin Abby ran down to the lifeguard and ask what I should do. Ten minutes later, my cousin returned and she said,” Put it in hot water the hottest I can stand.” I got stung by a stingray and the only way I could get the venom out was by putting my foot in hot water. So my great dad grabbed a beach chair, and I put my foot over the bathtub wall into the blazing, steaming, hot water. I sat in that chair all day on my phone thinking about I was glad that was me and not my little cousins. I was

my eyes as the breeze pushed it back and forth. Annoyed, I ran my hand through the wet mop atop my head, pushing it back to make it appear somewhat kempt. “You need a haircut.” My cousin threw me a warm, white towel. With the skill of a professional football player, I dropped it into the pool. I glanced over to my cousin, praying that he did not see my pitiful attempt at a catch. Relieved that his head was turned, I fetched the soaked towel and stood up. I quickly made

someone in daily basis and that’s the reality, sometimes people are having a conflict with their family and sometimes with their friends. One particular event that I remember from my life is when my whole family was sitting together with my uncle’s and cousins. My dad started a conversation about education and how todays kids are not doing what they are supposed to or they are not working as hard as they supposed to which lead to a much greater conversation. Everyone had their own personal approach to

of my cousins, aunts and uncles talking about how they kayak “around the glades” and after hearing so many stories about it, I didn’t have a clear idea of what it meant. By the time I was around 10, I came to realize it meant kayaking 4.5 miles from the beach, around a peninsula known as “The Glades” by the Minot community, or “first cliff”. As I walked in struggling to lug a heavy cooler into the cottage, a baby blue wooden house my family has had since my dad was a baby, I heard my cousin Kayla

how my day began. It was a sunny day in Mexico, and the sun’s rays were making me melt. I decided to go for a ride on the bikes with my cousins. My grandmother was in charge of me and my uncle was our neighbor. My uncle Joaquin was like a second father to me so I knew he was going to let her daughter Alondra go out for a ride on the bikes. Alondra was my cousin; she was a funny looking 6 year old girl because she had about 5 ugly horse teeth. I was 8 years old with both of my front teeth missing

“Son! Son? Can you get down here and help me with this!” my dad bellowed followed by a piercing“Pccccchhht”. Only four in the morning, mid-June 2014 and I’ve just awakened to the booming voice of my dad. “Coming! Alright. I know! I know! I know!” I parroted as I carelessly stumbled over my bed sheet. As I carefully scaled down the stairs, ... I could only spot my Dad’s white shirt in a sea of boxes and travel bags. As I pushed through the boxes I found him offhandedly wrapping the cardboard boxes

i’ve ever seen. He stands at the end with the happiest grin on his face. “Hurry up, dad!” I say as he is loading the trunk. After a few seconds, he shuts the trunk. He then gets in the car and buckles up. Today my sister, dad, and I are headed to my cousin, Jeremy’s wedding. He lives in Des Moines. The car ride is 3 hours long, so we need something to do. Melissa, my sister, and I watched movies and brought coloring books. We start to watch a movie, but we fall asleep instead. Our dad wakes us up and

The Summer of Sixteen It was the summer of my sixteenth birthday. That summer the sky was always blue, the birds were singing, and for the first time in my life I had some freedom. Since I was now sixteen I could get my driver’s license, which usually signifies newfound freedom for teenagers, and my mom finally stopped treating me like her darling little baby that I had been thought of until that point. That summer I had made many new friends and done new things and saw different people's perspective