I come from a housewife mother and a businessman father. I am the first among my parents, grandparents and siblings to earn a bachelor's degree and attend graduate school. Even though my parents are not educated, they tried to teach me and my sister the value of education. They were trying to find the resources and motivation to make education a priority in our life. Being born in Iran and moving to the United States of America at the age of 26, my goal always has been and will always be to educate
We had to leave our house for the high school around 8:45 to get in there before 9 which is when the bus leaves for Clarkston. When the bus got to Clarkston the first thing that we did is got all our stuff off the bus and put it on tarps under a tree. Then when the coaches had finished their meeting. Then we went and walked around the course. As we went people who had run the course before or one of the couches gave advice on what to do when running the course. It was a good cross country course
Ice skating is a beautiful sport to watch, but how hard is it to actually do? I decided to try it with one of my friends, who had also never been ice skating before. After an hour of skating I realized learning to ice skate is not necessarily hard but it is not exactly easy either. I went to the Cary Ice House and found out that I would rather skate on a pond in my backyard than skate there again. The service there was not that great and neither were the prices, and although there was not many people
It was the winter of 2014 in northern Ohio. I was in a ski resort called Boston Mills with my friends James Joe and Garrett. We were on the lift going to the park, and we all decided that we're going to learn a new trick so that I was going to do backside boardslide. After that we went downhill. Started with some 50-50's on the handrail to warm up the then with some backside or slide since they were somewhat different. Back at the top of the trail I had decided to try it on a rail. I approached properly
When I got home I looked in the mirror unable to recognize the girl standing in front of me, she was too pretty, too perfect. She wasn’t me. I wore old ripped tattered jeans and worn out shoes and old hand-me-down shirts and a high ponytail because I was too lazy to do my hair in the morning, this girl was wearing pretty pink skirt, a bright white shirt, and heels that ached her feet, her hair was done in tight curls that were just like my friend Jane’s and her makeup, I couldn’t tell if it was
Ever since I was little, I had always been warned about the dangers of the cold. Whenever winter had come rolling around, I was bundled from head to toe with layers of warm clothing. Since I was always covered with bright, neon fabrics, I felt invincible to the cold. Everytime I stood outside at my bus stop in the icy month of February, I felt nothing, believing it was all my doing. In reality, I felt nothing because of my parent’s careful practices and warnings. The icy touch of the winds would
Lost in the Woods The spring of 2010 had been difficult for my entire family, especially for my mom. What with everything changing so quickly and so dramatically, it was understandable that she had been itching to get away from the house. That’s also why it didn’t come as a surprise when my mom announced that we would be going somewhere for spring break. I was surprised, however, when she said we’d be going out of state to Ohio, and without the boys. Grace, my sister who was two years older than
“What are you doing?! Stop that Emma!” said I, suffering from nightmare. When I called Emma, she never replied to my words in the dream and in a moment, she took off her necklace, and threw it towards the Mountain Dragon. If Emma was an ORDINARY person, then there would’ve been no problem; the thing is that Emma would die within three days if she takes out her necklace. Panicking, I woke up. Phew, good that it was just a dream… it would have been so frustrating if it was real. …!? With worry and
I was, am always interested in technology. One day, in Florida, I got to see it in action. I'm not talking about an IPhone, we saw a rocket launch. It was a warm summers day at coach beach (only a few miles form Cape Conaveral). The launch was delayed a few day due to weather, because of that we stayed a day later than anticipated, just to see the launch. A man beside us had a radio and it was tuned to the launch count down. "T minus 10..." My heart was acking with anticipation "9..." Talking around
Waking up to a new day is just like any other new day since I first came into this world in 1994. The rush of anticipation, trepidation (words that) first spurned my moral foundation of today and then, built being on this ship between good and evil. It is a dull ship to ride because it is my own path. An endless path sprinkled with many possibilities and different! It only was the beginning, the path that was manifested got much further as my years flew by. Most importantly, it wasn’t really about