“You will not get anywhere in life, if you keep following the steps you have taken until now" Words from my grandfather that changed my life forever. My family has always worked very hard looking for ways to improving their business. Fresh new ideas in a stale and dusty Uyuni. When I was growing up I considered my family as very influential people and I aspired to be just like them. When my brother, Chrisito, had seizures out of the blue and we discovered he had an incurable genetic disorder
I still couldn't make a harmonious sound. One Friday night changed my perspective; I was actually wrong. Four years ago, during a youth night at church, my friends and I had to choose an instrument to play. The choices ranged from the keyboard, guitar, drums, to bass. Little did I know that my choice to play the keyboard would lead to great successes not only in music, but also in social interactions that would contribute to my leadership skills. After being mentored by one of the
young l had always dreamt of playing professionally in whatever sport I was currently in whether it was football, basketball, or baseball. I played these sports for the first 9 years of my life than my dad had meet a friend whose kids played hockey and my life was never the same. After some years of trying to convince my parents to let me play I was off sorta of. Hockey is a unique sport ,due to the fact; that you need to know to skate before you can start to improve any of your other skills. After having
surveyed my new and diverse classmates. I had high hopes for the school year. However, it seemed that even before a week had passed, the norm I was so used to had changed; something strange was happening. I didn’t understand the insults at first. They did not register, as I had never before encountered them, let alone any other type of gibe. “C**** chick!” “Chinese f***!” What did these mean? I did not know at the time. The former, being the most abundant, especially confused my mind
awoke quickly frantically out of a deep four-hour sleep. My mind kept playing over and over like a tape that would never end last night. This was a day unlike any other. A day that I was both in anticipation for and dreaded all at the same time. A day that would change my life and also for these three beautiful people that were my everything. This day I had waited for seemed like an eternity, but realistically was about one year. I slammed my alarm off that was next to the bed and crawled out of bed
that changed my family’s life forever. I was asleep on a pull out mattress at 4:25 a.m. at my grandma's house. I had been in a deep sleep, dreaming. A jolt of energy burst through me. My grandma and brother, Ryan, were quietly yelling, and shaking me from my shoulders. Crazily trying to wake me up from my sleep coma. I finally woke up. I jumped up anxiously, trying to focus on what they had been trying to say to me and why they tried to wake me up the way they did. I then found out that my baby
rest of your life. Teenage pregnancy. When I was in middle school I became pregnant. It wasn’t something I set out to do. Suddenly I was faced with a decision that ultimately would change my life. When I discovered my pregnancy I was given a few choices, One was to keep the baby and bring it up myself, another was to give birth and put the baby up for adoption or foster care, and the other was a termination and abort the baby. I chose to keep my baby for several reasons. First my personal values
seriously taken into consideration. As far as I was ever concerned, photographs were simply memories for my parents to look back on and reminisce. Pictures taken were always about the firsts, the first day of school, first haircut, first dance, first play date, first tooth, and a million other life events happening for the first time. I'm sixteen years old now, and my thoughts on photographs have changed a little bit. Photos aren't taken just to be taken, we take pictures for a reason, to freeze moments
effect on my life. This decision I made includes a big transition from playing intercity soccer and completely switching to house league basketball. As well as completely changing sports, I did however manage to a job out of it. It was in 2009 when I first inquired my mother about playing on an actual team. Every day in the summer, my brother, my sister and I would invite our neighbors over who were relatively our age and we would play soccer until the sun
important to me is when I lost about thirty pounds as a freshman in high school. I am most proud about my determination to do what was best for myself. I had always been overweight since I was a young girl. Throughout my elementary and middle school days, I went through a lot due to all the teasing about my weight. As a freshman, I became part of the junior varsity softball team and that is where my journey to lose weight began. I would exercise at our practices and although I later was not part of