Before junior year, I got up at 5:45 a.m. and took the train and bus to school. Getting my driver's license meant more freedom, more independence, and sleeping in later. For my parents, my license meant a free taxi company for my 3 younger sisters, but I didn’t know that my license would mean getting closer to my sister Ella. Before I started driving us to and from school, Ella and I didn’t talk much. We wouldn’t sit together on the train, and after school we would both do homework and go to our activities. On the weekends, I’d be at a basketball tournament, and she’d be at a dance competition. Driving with her was the first time we were alone together for an extended period of time. Last year, I often came out of school hunched over, not just from my backpack, but also from the weight of the stress of homework and tests. Yet, I knew the second I got in the car with Ella, I’d be able to clear …show more content…
We talked about friends, school, family, and life. I found myself becoming a good listener and more comfortable sharing my feelings and ideas, even offering advice. This summer, Ella was thinking about transferring to Lyons Township, the local public high school, because her friend group at Fenwick were “mean girls.” I told her the story of how I struggled at first with making friends at Fenwick. During lunch one day, my old friends and I got detention for throwing grapes at each other. Alone in a dreary room for an hour and ready to die of boredom, I realized that I needed to branch out, because I didn’t want to spend high school in an empty classroom with these goofballs. The next day at lunch I decided to sit with some guys from the soccer team, who don’t throw grapes at people, and ever since I have been friends with them. I told Ella that I was sure she could find a nice group of friends like I did. In the end, she decided to come back to Fenwick, and I couldn’t be more proud of
Everything for a year had been leading up to this point and here I was in the middle of the happiest place on earth in tears because my friends had abandoned me in the middle of Disney on the senior trip.
Congratulations on turning fifteen and a half years old! I bet you are excited as I was back when I was fifteen and a half. With earning my Driver’s License, I feel like a more independent (and less dependent) person than if I did not. Knowing this, I knew I had to endure a long tedious process to actually get my license. Obtaining my Driver’s License has provided me with three key components: the freedom, the responsibility, and the dedication.
In this article by Donna St. George, titled “Teens Are in No Rush to Drive,” she writes about teenagers who are waiting to get their driver’s license. Teenagers in this day of age are more busy and have more to do. Be transport from place to place since being a child, teens are use to their parents driving them. With phones, teens have an easy access to the internet which makes them want to get on social media. Along with smartphones and texting that teens don’t need to get into a car and visit friends. With new laws and requirements getting licenses is a lot more complicated and time-consuming. Sixty hours of practice and 300 to 600 dollars for private driving schools. With gas and insurance for the car, it makes driving too much to afford
Through out the years teenagers have been driving without a license. In this century teenagers are decreasing to get their license (Teens getting their driver license. (n.d.). Retrieved November 1, 2013, from ). Teenagers tend to think that just because they know how to pump gas press the brakes and rea...
It was okay to start a new chapter of my life and make new friends at Humboldt. On the first day of school, a seventh grade girl with brown, curly hair, named Haylie, came up to me in the gymnasium to ask me what my name was, and where I had moved from. I told her my name was Annalise, and that I had moved from Moran. Little did I know, this girl would be my best friend for the next six years of my middle and high school career. My new classmates also accepted me and made me feel welcomed. I realized these people would become my new family. Throughout middle school, I noticed that our class was different than the others. We were always the smallest and closest class. Everyone talked to everyone, and we made a lot of memories that I will never forget. This closeness is something I had hoped our class would carry on throughout our high school
Getting a driver’s license gives people the opportunity to spend time with friends or be with their families longer. It also can give them the freedom to get out of the house when they get bored or get angry with their parents or just need to get away for a while. Getting a license is a big deal in today’s society because they can go out to eat with friends from school or take people
Most parents think getting their teens their driver's license will lift a weight off of their backs when in reality it seems to only do the opposite once the facts of insurance and statistics come into play. The article “Teen Drivers” provides some statistic such as, “A driver’s licence is a ticket to freedom! At last, teens can drive themselves to school, work and recreational activities .”(“Teen Driving,” par 1) This is a fact of how this small piece of plastic placed in the hands on a teen can be seen as a ticket to freedom. Another thing the article states is, “Parents are thrilled because they do not have to chauffeur the kids around anymore.”(“Teen Driving, par 2) This statement reveals how parents get their freedom back as well teens are gaining their first taste of freedom. But also with this freedom most teens don't realize just how scary the road is and when their parents are no longer driving with them they become nervous and many not be as safe as they could be, which leads me to the thought of many they should choose to take certain steps to create safe driving
The monkey bars were hot from a long day in the sun, but my hands still grasped them with all my strength. It was finally Friday and that meant free time at the playground in Physical Education. All that could be seen were fifth graders swinging on the monkey bars, crawling under steps, climbing poles, and running here and there playing tag. Our jovialness could be sensed from a mile away with our broad smiles and loud laughs giving into how much we were enjoying ourselves.
Drugs! Alchohol! These two things prove to be very dangerous to the human person. My older brother was once addicted to both, but with the help from my parents, he is now back on the right track. This was only possible because my parents took huge steps in helping him get to rehab. They were heroes to me and my family because they had been so caring, loving, and forgiving to my brother. There has been so many wonderful things I have learned from them. My parents saved my brother's life and showed me what true love and hope can accomplish.
It was early September, and my grandma, Buzzy, had just died of cancer. I wasn’t really old enough to understand, but it was the first time in my life I had seen my dad cry. My parents had gone out to Chicago to see her, but everyone knew there was no other outcome. It was accepted she wasn’t going to get better. Thankfully, she passed away in her sleep, with her sons at her side.
Change. From the first breath inhaled to the last, we change hundreds, thousands, of millions of times throughout the entirety. These changes may not always be so obvious, whereas others are distinct. Change is inevitable, especially as the environment, technology, economy, and people develop. Us, human beings, are flexible, able to adapt and survive. However, as we adapt to these changes, we cannot let these changes compromise our beliefs and principles by which we abide and hold close to our hearts.
There is a lot of things in my life that I and other people in my family were treated unfairly, as well as we were not given an opportunity that we felt that we deserved. My family and I have suffered many times in our lives such as being unemployed due to jobs being cut off or medical problem, people acting rude to us, having to have been kicked out of house we rented before, not getting paid well at work, people around the neighborhood not doing my family or myself a favor because ‘they can’t at the moment’, and more than those.
Getting a driver’s license can be the most exciting part of a teens life. But what do teens have to do beforehand in order to obtain that license? For some, it's months of training and for others, they can complete everything within a few months. But does all that training make teens better drivers? The three main reasons why more drivers education for teens is not beneficial are: restrictions for teen drivers make it harder on parents, teens have to be able to get around without their parents, and not all teens need more drivers education.
Driving a car and obtaining a driver’s license does perhaps seem to provide people with a great sense of independence and freedom. Teenagers need to feel independent in order to learn to become successful on their own as well as realize how to handle life situations on their own, and having a license seems the perfect start and most effective way to do so. When teenagers feel this independence they tend to act more mature, knowing the responsibilities they must now carry on their own (More4Kids). Teenagers often look forward to the freedom that driving offers as well. Teenagers are able to take drives to escape from life’s many stressed, and leave any troubles at home behind without rebelling out against their loved ones.
Getting my drivers’ license was an intense feeling that I will never forget. Just knowing that I had a drivers’ license made me feel so free, as free as a bird flying in the open sky with no real place to go, just a desire to be free. I felt like I could do anything. I had new responsibilities like most adults, and I came to a realization that I had lived through one of the most important events in the process of growing up. This event opened up many possibilities for me such as interests in cars, driving skill improvement, and freedom.