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My parents always taught me to follow rules and to mind teachers at all times. I usually did what I was told; I came home with good grades and good conduct. In high school, I never got into trouble. There was this one time in elementary school where the school had to call my parents. I had been sent to the office. This was the first and last time that I was sent to the office. Of all the bad things I could have done, I was sent to the office because I wrote on a bathroom wall. The story begins with me in the first grade. I was attending school at Hollis Hand Elementary. I had a friend named Jackie in kindergarten, but she was not in the same class as me in first grade. I came to the conclusion that I had to make a new friend. After a while, I made a new friend, and her name was Rachel. She became my best friend, and we would always play on the playground together and have sleepovers. At that age, you do not really think about a friend lying or deceiving you. I trusted Rachel, and I never really thought twice about what she told me. Rachel had a crush on this boy in our class; his name was John. Everyone knew that Rachel and John liked each other. I teased her about him like everyone else did. I did not see teasing her as a big deal, but I guess she did. At Hollis Hand, the bathroom doors were …show more content…
If you did not know, it is really embarrassing walking back into a classroom after you just got into trouble. After walking in, I took my seat. As soon as I sat down, I looked to my right and saw Rachel. She sat two seats down from me. I look at her and she looks back; I give her a dirty look and look away. Class proceeded as usual until the end of school. My grandmother would pick me up from school instead of my parents. I was so happy to see her instead of one of them because she did not know. I knew my dad would have gotten in touch with my mom by then, and she would
I walked in and my stomach made a flip-flop like riding “The Scream” at Six Flags. Everyone was staring at me! With their curios eyes and anxious to know who I was. I froze like ice and felt the heat rise through my face. My parents talked to my teacher, Ms.Piansky. Then my mom whispered “It’s ti...
2. A time that I was punished harshly was when I wasn't getting my priorities straight. I sat down with my dad and we had a talk about if what I was doing was benefitting me for the long run. I was working every single day after school because I need to get paid to pay for my monthly truck fee. I have two jobs, one is working for Marylyn Johnson and the other is working at the Ackley Vet Center. I would work at Marylyn's three times a week and the vet three times a week. That would leave me Sunday to work with my cows. I also didn't leave that much time in my schedule to do my housework. I didn't think it was a big deal because I didn't have any shows coming up for awhile. However, it was a big deal for my parents. They yelled at me and told me I coudn't leave the house for the whole weekend. I also had to start doing my own laundry. I didn't understand my punishment because it's not like I was hanging out with friends
Along with other time like when spray painted a bunch of random stuff to a back wall of the car lot’s main building. I did a lot of dumb thing, but I was so young and careless. This eventually led me to always obey my parents by the time I grew up a little
I was a typical 6th grader with a love for social time and hatred towards pointless homework. As I was tapping my foot on my creaking wooden desk with my book opened pretending to read, Mr. Daniels was watching over me like a bird that just gave birth to chicken eggs. I had a feeling she was going to ask me a question about what I was reading. I realized from that point on to always trust my instincts. Mrs. Daniels tall toothpick shaped body leaned over and asked me to summarize the first chapter in front of the whole class. Due to not even beginning to read the first page I told her I did not even know where to begin. Since I was not prepared for class, not participating, and being rude about my task at hand I received a punishment. My punishment was every week I had to write a summary in my own words about the chapter I had read. My eyes rolled in the back of my head so far I didn't know if they would ever go back to normal. I knew my life was over at this
Being a senior, we had to drive the underclassmen to practice and on these drives were nothing but laughs. I had to drive James and Danny every single day, and the two of those kids together were nothing less than hysterical. Danny was a tall, lanky kid who was very nice and polite. James on the other hand was a short, stocky, loud, and a complete slob. I was always two seconds away from leaving him, but without fail he would come running out of the school with no shoes on, a loosened tie, and an unbutton shirt. No matter what the circumstances, James always had a very interesting, to say the least, way of explaining why he was late. It was anything from I fell down the stairs to my teacher wouldn’t let me leave because she was having a mental breakdown. One memory in particular was when James was talking about getting a McFlurry all day, we finally got him one and then when we showed up to the field he dropped it and spilled it all over. It was just the little things that makes me appreciate every single second of that
Throughout my high school experience, I've been able to obtain knowledge that I can use to better my life. Some of the classes I've taken have been a blessing in disguise. For example, I never expected to learn as much as I did about writing and literature by just simply reading. Many of my teachers have pushed me to my limits and inspired me to think differently from my peers. In general my best English experience was reading "MacBeth" by William Shakespeare in Mr. Elwell's class, where I also realized I had many English skills to improve on.
At the end of my 8th grade one of my aunts from Chicago offered me a room in her apartment. I accepted and traveled back to Chicago. I started freshman year in Steinmetz college prep. My English was bad because I never used it back in Mexico and it had been more than six years. My freshman year they put me in ESL classes, but by the end of that year I had improved so much that they took me out of ESL and offered me a place in the IB program. I was starting to like it, but something horrible happened. My grandpa died, and my aunt went back to Mexico and decided to take care of my grandma. I was almost going to go back to Mexico, but luckily one of my aunts that lived in Arkansas, offered me a place in her house. So I left Chicago and all my new friends and school and went to the south. Being the new kid in school is the worst. You don't know anybody and you don't have friends. The school was called Springdale High-school. I made no friends and pretty much sat by myself at lunch the whole year I was there. At the end of that year my aunt told me that my cousin, that was sharing his room with me, told her that he didn't have “privacy” anymore and that I had to
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The sun gleamed vibrantly on August 5, 2008, but I did not sense the warmth as my thoughts were elsewhere. I was only six years old at the time and preparing to begin first grade in less than one month. As I crossed the threshold into the home of my best friend, I had a sensation everything would change. At such a young age, I was having to tell my best friend goodbye. Blake Basgall had leukemia and would not be around when I returned from vacation, according to my mom. That day, I had spent hours coloring a picture in his favorite color, blue, so I could give it to him prior to heading to my grandma’s for the week. Blake was my first real friend. He had a thoughtful and daring heart through all of his surgeries and medication treatments. Blake Lee Basgall would become an inspiration
The first day of school started and Kandy was in 10th grade. Her new clothes got her a lot of attention, everyone complimented her about how they loved what she was wearing. That was the only thing she was confident about, her clothes. She knew that her style was awesome. Her best friend, Ang, was in two of her classes. Kandy thought that this would be the best year of school because she never had any friends in any of her classes before. Turns out they both had the same lunch. They would talk up by the road, on the sidewalk, to Speedway everyday for lunch. For some reason people would always honk at them and one day a girl yelled out the window and called them sluts. Obviously because she was jealous. The first few days of school went by fast, then kept getting slower and slower.
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It is amazing how many things we take for granted. We make plans for the day, and don't think twice about how those plans can be taken away in the blink of an eye. I never thought much about it myself, until I was faced with the shock, and undeniable truth of my cousin's death. I don't think anyone really thinks about tragedy until they are actually faced with shocking news.
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