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I am alone, there is no one around but me and I haven’t seen any trace of any kind of human-like creature, since the beginning of my journey. I am traveling to a town in northern canada approximately 1,300 miles north of the canadian border. I began my expedition 392 days ago, a little over a year ago. From what I know about Yellowknife, it’s nothing special. Just another destination on the map. There is an urban area of Yellowknife, but the rest is all prairieland. This is honestly a great place though, it may not seem like much but it’s exactly what I’m looking for. Peaceful, quiet, rural, but also just a hop, skip and a jump away from an Urban area. I’m Matt and I used to attend Mountain Top View high school. I’m seventeen, and was considered …show more content…
Notice, I’m using past tense. The reason being I left all that behind, my family, friends, team, and basically my whole life. I was just really ready for a change, my life had become such a boring and routine series of events, I just wasn’t enjoying living. I felt this way for a long time, one day I just finally built up the willpower to up and leave. No one suspected my fleeing. One of my best qualities is that I can keep my feeling, emotions, and opinions to myself. This may sound really crappy of me to do, but how would you feel trapped in a society where you know you didn’t truly belong or enjoy whatsoever. I didn’t just disappear, I left a 10 page letter for my parents that told them where I was going and why. I told them where they could find me. They still haven’t gone looking. I know this because I installed a program on our computer, that trace my every step. They uninstalled the program the week after I left. So I am alone, no one cares about me, everyone knows I’m gone they don’t seem to care. Anyways, I went searching for a home, a new …show more content…
So what do I have to lose, I enter “the castillo.” As I walk in I feel as if multiple sets of eyes are watching me. I immediately feel as if I’m swallowing cotton balls. At the same time, during this time I feel warm, welcomed, and a strange comfort. I start exploring the castle and it’s immaculate. I’ve never been in a castle before, but this seems never ending. As I explore and get comfortable I hear a high pitched scream below me. As my stay at the castle proceeds these sort of things become a normality. I start to feel like I’m watched, I hear things, and I didn’t think anything of it until I meet Rosemary Anne. Rosemary is a seven year old girl with strawberry blond hair, gray eyes, and pale skin. On my 13 day at the castle I was sitting in front of a crackling fire. I am wrapped in a robe I found in the 7th floor bathroom when I hear it. I little girl’s voice saying “hello Matt”. I scream how does she know my name, who is she? She is attached to chains, and before I could say anything she is gone. This was just the beginning of a series of weird events. I continue to stay in the castle, and as I explore more I find clues on, whose name I didn’t know at the time, Rosemary’s
I remember the first time I came to America; I was 10 years old. Everything was exciting! From getting into an airplane, to viewing magnificent, huge buildings from a bird’s eye view in the plane. It was truly memorable. After staying few days at my mother’s house, my father and I wanted to see what Dallas looks like. But because my mother was working the whole day, it wasn’t convenient for her to show us the area except only on Sundays. Finally, we went out to the nearby mall with my mother. My father and I were astonished after looking at a variety of stores. But after looking at different stores, we were finally tired and hungry, so we went into McDonald’s. Not being familiar with fast food restaurants, we were curious to try American
Bonjour, la famille! I know that around this time that we are supposed to be moving to a different house, but I wanted to let you know that maybe it could be possible if we move to a different country. I know this sounds like a lot, and the answer is probably no, because there would be so much for us to have to get used to. But I was thinking… what if we moved to Canada? It would be closest to the United States, so we could get passports & come visit family and friends. Also, I learned about this thing in Civics called Gross Domestic Product (GPD). It is the calculation of the Market values. The Gross Domestic product for Canada is approximately $1.573 trillion (2015 est.). Wow! That’s a lot! The Gross Domestic Product, though, per capita,
We have lived with other families in their homes and as an effect, we have had to store our belongings in a storage. In 2010, we were unable to pay the monthly bill for the storage and our storage unit was sold in an auction; we lost all of our belongings. It had felt as if my parents and I had just immigrated to the United States – we had nothing to call ours. Instead of feeling sorry for myself, I saw this misfortune as a motivation to set long-term goals and I pledged to my parents that I would be college graduate to eschew living under the same circumstances during my
The exact nature of the encounters between Captain James Cook and the Polynesian natives of Hawaii as well as all interactions and exchanges between Europeans and native Polynesian peoples of the Pacific while Cook was exploring the islands of Hawaii and after has been investigated by anthropologists and historians for many years. Captain Cook died at the hand of Polynesian natives while he was at Hawaii in 1779. Marshall Sahlins stated that Cook was seen as the god Lono during the celebration of the Makahiki festival taking place at the time of Cook’s visit. Gananath Obeyesekere, in his noted work, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific, argues that Sahlins is incorrect in his conclusions about Cook and his myth models, which are defined as indigenous people not using rationality in the same way as Europeans. They underestimate the flexibility and pragmatism of indigenous cultures and cosmology. Obeyesekere argues that the Prospero myth and the Kurtz myth are evident in the works of Sahlins and other historians as well. The Prospero myth that is of the European explorer who brings forth peace and a "civilized" culture to the native peoples of the lands he or she explores. The name "Prospero" is taken from a character in Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest. The Kurtz myth is that of the explorer, who witnesses the raw nature and "uncivilized" culture and ideology of the native peoples and becomes himself "savage". The name "Kurtz" originated from Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness and is adopted in Francis Ford Coppola’s cinematic masterpiece Apocalypse Now. Obeyesekere’s ideas are prevalent in The Piano, a feature film involving a lov...
My life was fine until I was taken from my home in Africa. They took my whole family, including me, on a boat, to America. Speaking of family, my owners are selling me, moving me to a new home, and I will probably never see the again. It’s normal, you know. My mom, dad, everybody said this would happen. It’s a cruel world.
Let the stream begin. Some body, some things, life and me, communicated the idea to talk now, not to leave it, to stay, and face up to the past, the places, the people, the pain, the many reasons why I left my home and family, all those years ago, to become a drug addict, an alcoholic, a wanderer, move nomadically from house to house, year to year, to live inside a prison, real and imaginary. I met hell. I met the devil. I met them both inside my head. I found out the hard way that humans could easily imagine evil. The path forward comes from the push to write and to deal. Yes, I felt happy in between the miserable spaces. My family helped me to survive and still do now, even more so than before. Without them, I would not exist, for in the darkest moments I realised that they kept me breathing. I want the virtual picket fence, ideal partner, children and career. They may or may not eventuate. Now as I regroup, look upon me with sober, straight and clear eyes, I can have anything. I walk to a lake, to sense nature, to allow the anxiety to live on these pages, to take shape, and mould into a form that speaks atonement.
I remember the deep breath they took before spitting out the words that would leave a permanent scar implanted in my mind whenever the word move came up again.
Being the only immigrant child opens the door to a lot of name calling in your family. I have always thought of myself as an American. So it annoyed me a little bit when my my sister or brother called me an immigrant. But it’s ironic because aren't I actually an immigrant myself? The one who came to America from Sri Lanka at nine months old with no papers. Went through extra security in airports because I wasn't yet a citizen. Always had to not only remember my social security but my green card as well . So why do I get frustrated when people label me as an immigrant, when the true matter is that I literally am one. Throughout my life these thoughts continuously go through my head and is still a working progress in which I am trying to figure out what I want to be, and what I’m actually am.
I moved to Vancouver at the start of August, and apart from taking a gondola up a mountain, I hadn't really done anything adventurous. This was about to change when I booked a Tinggly zipline tour in Whistler, a popular mountainous area near Vancouver, for my boyfriend and myself. Tinggly is all about giving you a unique experience, and this is exactly what I wanted.
I did not want to leave. I had been here for ten days and I had established relationships and friendships with people from everywhere and all sorts of backgrounds. We all sat in the car, preparing to leave. Every single one of us, my parents, brother and me, sitting in silence. Wanting to cry, waiting for someone to say the first word?
Who I am today and my story all started to form from the day I sat on a plane to the Great White North back on September 16, 2001. My family’s journey to Canada was a rough trip. We were all alone in a new world ready to start all over, with no language skills fitted for the place or a place to stay. Back then it was only; baby me at the age of two, my bigger brother David who was just turning six and my two lovable parents. However, we made it, moving to Toronto, Ontario. We all managed to find our places in the world until we got suggested to move due to legal reasons a place called Saskatchewan, they told us Saskatoon would be a good place due to it being small and friendly, so we did as we were told. Saskatoon turned out to be just as good
Many of them succeeded and found the better future they were looking for. Many others found hardship and experienced the destruction of their hopes and dreams. All of them were transformed. Packing up and leaving one's home is one of the hardest things a person can experience. Unfortunately, there are many instances when people are forced to do so.
My heart was pounding as I boarded my flight leaving the Bangkok International Airport. A flight attendant in a grey dress with a red bow draped over her shoulder announced; “Welcome aboard flight AA350 to the United States.” My journey began that day.
Your breath quickens. You search desperately for an exit, a way to flee, a primal need to escape this place and return to a warm, safe home with people to comfort you. But even as the panic sets in, it begins to subside. And something even stronger than your fear compels you to move forward. You shiver, and even though you find yourself surrounded by a warm summer night you are cold to the touch. Your hands are white and clammy, your breath freezes in the air again, and yet still you wonder what has happened. A tug at your chest pulls you onward into the street, and like a dog on a leash you follow it. There are no objections on your lips, no thoughts of refusal in your mind. The pull forward is too strong and as the music grows louder you feel as if something wants you here. It wants you to see something that you’ve missed. This thing, this compulsion is beyond anything you've ever known. You wonder what would happen if you said no. If you followed you’re envisioning of safety and turned to never look
When I expressed my fears and anxiety about leaving Kentucky, no one seemed to really listen to what I was saying. They kept saying it would be alright. I was mature and almost an adult and the Western world with its great material temptations wouldn't corrupt me. But in my mind I felt isolated. I wanted them to sit and feel my anguish with me. But they wanted to pacify me, console me as though I were a baby. At that time I fel...