I Know What You Did Last Summer

School was letting out for summer and there was pure excitement in the air, or at least that’s what I thought. I was 15 years old and I had a huge summer in store since I got my first car and I could drive anywhere I wanted. I always had a great relationship with my grandfather ‘Pop’ and since he lived in town we did a lot of stuff together. He was 79 years old, but you couldn’t tell it because of his energy and health. I knew ‘Pop’ had been sick but I never thought twice about it, because he had

I believe that doing something differently than others doesn’t mean that what you are doing is wrong. What the others are doing isn’t always right. I know this seems like a very obvious belief, but sometimes it can get tricky. You’re probably thinking, “how?” Well, I’ve faced this issue of doing my own thing before, and I didn’t realize that what the other people were doing was wrong until recently. As summer is right around the corner, and schools are getting out all over the country, everyone is

I have a secret. A gigantic one. One that if I told, I 'd be committing social suicide. So I haven 't told any one of my friends. Not even my best friend, Ana. I thought no one would have to find out. Because, I mean, it’s only one school year. How hard is it to keep a secret for that long? Just like any school morning, my alarm started blaring, reading 6:00. So, just like any school morning, I hit snooze, ‘cause who actually gets up when their alarm goes off? An hour later, I finally forced myself

What I Did During the Summer - Queenie Tu Note: I just read my journal entry about what I want to do during summer break and I just realized that I did everything in that list other than the only thing that was productive in there. *Sigh* Summers come and go and this one is no different. This summer was filled with me being completely unproductive, but I do have some fun memories that I created with my friends and family. To kick off summer break, I remembered going to the teen zone at the library

challenge I had to face since I was in grade school. No one was there to tell me that the lack of success could change you and affect you in the future. I never knew a hardship such as failure could wake me up from my fantasy and bring the light of reality to me. Unfulfillment can be your wake up call to reality and it can impact you later on in life. Every morning my mother would come into my room around 6am and project her voice “ yall get up it's 6 o'clock, get up and get ready for school.” I was

childhood to adulthood was the job I held in the summer going into my senior year. I was a lifeguard and a swim instructor within my community. Being the first-born child in all of my family, I have been surrounded by people that are younger than me and have always been a natural leader. I would be described by my family and friends as a planner, well-organized, and responsible. When I found out I got the job to be a swim lesson instructor, I felt prepared. Little did I know that it would change me for

I remember it as if it was yesterday, maybe because it was yesterday. No, I’m merely kidding. It was this summer. Not this coming summer, the last summer. And not the summer of the year 2016, the one from this year, 2017. What happened that summer night? Numerous things. It was any other typical summer day for me in the ole’ Fritz household. I was getting bored doing things with Hallie, the dog, or by myself. I thought of a brilliant idea, “I’ll invite Kennedy over, it’s been forever since I’ve

Have you ever been betrayed by someone that you trusted? “The Summer People”, a fairy tale short story written by the author Kelly Link, portrayed the characters in a way that be can be greatly related. Throughout the story, she often used several literary elements, such as symbols, setting, allusions, etc., to help the readers to understand the moral of the story. The main character, Fran, was bonded with the faith to be the caretaker of the summer people, and there is no possible way that she can

She wrote many books like I know what you did last

The Giant Pink Ball Are you obsessed with a giant pink ball? Probably not, but I am. By giant pink ball I mean 7,000 stickers all stuck together into a spherical shape. It all started in the summer of 2016. I watched a YouTube video where someone was sent 100 or so boxes from the post office, and I thought “I wanna’ do that”. So I searched online. A week later I had two rolls of stickers. I soon learned what to do, and what not to do with them. The stickers say “Caution Heavy 35 lbs. and over,”