Do Not Play Hide & Go Seek I was involved in a freak accident during a two-person game of hide & go seek. In the middle of my third-grade year at William Southern Elementary School, my parents told me and my siblings that we were moving to the Fort Osage School District. We were delighted to move because we hated the Independence School District. Fast forward to the summer after third grade, I signed up for summer school. I made it through the first week just fine, but it was the weekend that was a disaster. The accident that would happen to me this weekend would bring my happy, carefree, 9-year-old life to an overwhelmingly abrupt stop. That weekend, my mom was having a jewelry party, so, of course, the children were sent outside to play while the …show more content…
“I don’t mind,” Beth said, picking me up, carrying me through the house, and plopping me down in the back of my mom’s minivan. “You want a Twix bar?” Beth asked, pulling one out of her pocket. I snatched the Twix bar out of her hand. “Who wouldn’t want a Twix bar?” I said with utter sarcasm. “Ready to go?” my mom asked. “Yup,” I replied. We said our goodbyes and we were on our way to the ER. We made it to the ER, and we somehow got a room right away. The doctor came in with two nurses, and he told me what was gonna happen. Before he put the stitches in he had to clean out the wound and make sure that it did not go all the way through my eyelid. Turns out it did not go all the way through, and, before I knew it, he had already put the first stitch in. We were done in five minutes. Afterwards, the doctor let me shoot him with water with the syringe he used to clean out my wound. There were a few lessons learned that day. I need to be more careful. Nora needs to be more spatially aware. Something else that is interesting is: I have not played a single game of hide & go seek ever since this
The events of the past few months were twisted around my ankles and dragged around their weight wherever I went. My friends were enjoying the beginning of the school year without me, and the discouraging weakness that comes with
When I was in 8th grade, me and my friends decided to go on the Haunted Hayride. We all got in the tractor which took us to the top of a hill and dropped us off at the start of the maze. When we got out of the tractor we went to the maze entrance and me and all my friends were very scared. Through the whole maze me and my friends were screaming and holding onto each other. At the end of the maze we were all scared but laughing at the same time, but we wanted to go through it again.
"Prune." "What?" "It is like, the most offensive term in the book on offensive terms," Griffith responds. I laugh so hard that I have to gasp for air. "
Come on in". I had to sit still while the nice family was helping remove the bullet. The pain was brutal I could barely stand it. I was forced to sit still so all the terrible memories and thought from a couple of hours ago came rushing in. After, my bullet was removed my friend got a couple stitches for a deep cut and some bandaids.
A few hours later all of my stuff was tucked into my room, Mom and Sydney both started crying when they got ready to leave. Dad even had tears in his eyes, “I promise all of you, I’ll take good care of her. No Debbie downers allowed!” Sarah hugged mom and Sydney then Dad and Cade.
I had never felt so sick or so scared before. The nurses acted fast, administering an antidote to the Tylenol through an IV in my arm. As soon as my mom heard the news, she dropped everything and made the two-hour drive to the hospital, arriving after midnight. I felt ashamed that she had to see me in that state, and guilty for how much I must have worried her. I spent my first two days there hooked up to machines and too weak to stand up for longer than a couple minutes at a time, and she stayed by my side.
At 5:45 AM the alarm on my phone blared some generic default tone that I had never gotten around to changing. This was probably the earliest I’ve ever gotten up in my entire life. I groggily removed myself from the pile of blankets on the floor that I had been sleeping in and headed for the shower, brushed my teeth, washed my face and searched my near empty closet for something to wear on my first day of school. Although I was absolutely exhausted and there was yet to be any furniture in my room, I was thrilled to be transferring to Pattonville High School in midst of my junior year and living in a bigger house in a better community.
Boy you sure have a lot of friends… that are nice.” The school secretary called my mom and threw me an ice pack. Coincidentally, my mom was at my favorite restaurant eating with some of my friend’s moms. My mom picked me up and I ate a little bit over there. Right after my mom left the restaurant, she brought me to the doctor’s office.
I woke up early and put on the clothes that I had laid out from the night before. I went to the kitchen grabbed a Poptart and headed out the door to find the bus coming up my street. Walking onto the bus gave me a whiff of Expo Markers and and an overload of Axe cologne that I’m guessing an awkward teenage boy showered in. I sat on the hard, poorly cushioned seat next to a small girl with pigtails and a Doc Mcstuffins backpack. Man, this is my first day of being in the Middle School; first day of sixth grade, I thought to myself.
The lady then looked at the paper and realized it was wrong and started to laugh and said “ I am so sorry I wrote the wrong one down.” I knew that if I didn 't notice the papers they would have done surgery on my right knee instead of the left knee. I was moved to another room where other people were surrounded by nurses getting prepared for surgery. The moment I was stationed in my room I was surrounded by different nurses. There was the anesthetic nurse, the head nurse, the assistant nurses and even the nurses that are in training.
Introduction As quoted by the psychoanalyst D.W. Winnicott, “It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.” Hide-and-seek games involve temporary separations and reunions, and are thus games of relationships (Israelievitch, 2008). Peekaboo uses the fundamental structure of all good jokes - surprise, balanced with expectation. Stafford 2014 Hide-and-Seek According to Israelievitch (2008) the game of peekaboo played between mothers and infants is the earliest form of hide-and-seek.
But, a few weeks ago, my friends invited me to go to Haunted Hillside which is a hayride and a corn maze in the dark. There were creepy people following us around and chainsaws coming towards us, but I was proud of myself that I remained calm and enjoyed the
As Dr. Seuss once said, "You have BRAINS in your HEAD. You have FEET in your SHOES. You can steer yourself in any DIRECTION you CHOOSE". This quote applies to school in many ways. If you have ever used the statement, "They were doing it too" or "He made me do it" then you are wrong because as this quote says, you make your own decisions even if you are trying to impress your friends.
That day, she told me to take it one step at a time and not to be afraid to step out of my comfort zone and push my limits; this gave me the comfort to move on with my life. That next week, I was immediately enrolled in middle school in the United State. My schedule consisted of the same old boring, bland things, “get to my classes, and then go home.” I never made time for company, I didn’t socialize with anyone, nor did I join any activities or clubs.
After having been seated for quite a while the doctor came in and explained what would be going on. I was mortified to hear him explain how they would go about yanking out my teeth. And before I knew it was time for them to start. They leaned me back in the chair and began to talk among themselves. I was trying to mentally prepare myself for the pain.