I remember perfectly, the saddest day in my life, i was 22 years. My friends and I decide to leave the country looking for adventure and future stories to tell to our sons. But we never thought that it will be such a horrible trip and actually that trip left us a mark that we would never ever forget. This is the story of the trip, which it supposed to be a happy experience but actually turn into a nightmare.
It was June 22th, 1993, Luis, Rose, Suzy, John and me, decide to go E.E.U.U, it was the dream of us, finally we can practice our English, make some friends, knew new places, eat new food. As soon we just graduated, as soon we started the trip, we saw in a movie a group of friend road to the trip in a car, we thought it would be a great experience, listen music, talking, make some stops in the gas station. Those kind of thing that you can see in a typical American movie. It was, maybe like 7:00 pm when we have to make a stop in the nearest gas station, meanwhile John charging gas, we went to the bar which was next to the gas station. Rose thought it would be fun, you have to live the whole experience darling, she say. I wasn’t sure, actually I was afraid. I remember to see in a movie a bar like that one, and it was full of henchmen
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When we finally arrive to his home, we notice that the house smell a little bit weird, like if an animal would die and spend a lot of days there, he says that maybe is a rat or something but certainly is nothing to be worried. The house was big and it looks like a haunted house a big blue haunted house. We stayed in the living room talking and drinking, but suddenly I realize that all my friends except Robin are sleep, I start to feel sleepy and I just hear Robin´s voice saying: You should get some sleep, if not you certainly will scared, when my eyes slowly
Once we all had our food and we were all at the table we all agreed that the tacos they made that day were really nasty which kind of made some of us upset because we were actually hungry. After lunch, we all went and sat back in the classroom for the rest of the school day. Towards the end of the school day we all went to grab our luggage from the security room which had been checked by now and security took what we couldn’t have because it wasn’t safe. We then all took our luggage to this white van which was going to bring our stuff towards the dorm so we wouldn’t have to walk our entire stuff across the campus. Once we made it to the front we grabbed our things and they showed us to our rooms, after getting settled the rest of the day was nice we all met new faces and just had
I realized I would probably never see most of them again, especially the British counselors, many of whom had never been to America before that summer. Of course I could go back next summer if I wanted to, but it wouldn’t be the same. Everyone would be replaced with a whole new group of people that I would come to know and love then never see again. As these realizations hit me, I started to feel numb. After saying goodbye to everyone, fetching my luggage, and scrubbing off the mold that had started to grow on my shower basket, I slumped over to my mom’s good old gray Kia Sportage.
So, that day I stood in front of the class and gave my entire speech on why we should select Dollywood as our class trip destination, "... and for your benefit and mine, we should definitely agree to go to Dollywood. Dollywood consists of everything we would need to fulfill our longing for an amazing field trip. So, if we were going to pick an, out of this world trip, it would have to be Dollywood!" On our way to the land of wonder, we experience many bumps in the road. The travel wasn 't your typical highway drive.
I heard my mom talking to my dad. He tells her, “voy a ir para el norte(US) con un coyote(a person who brings people to the US illegally) que cobra barato,” I see her hugging him really tight. My dad comes to my sister and I and tells us that he will be back later, to not worry because he’s just going to see how “el norte” is, then might take us there later. My sister, my mom, and I understood why he wanted to go to The United States, he wants a better life for us.
At first when I was told I would be able to speak my mind as to what my thoughts would be on the effects of what happened and what Mr. Wilson should receive as a time to serve I knew exactly what to say, but when you begin putting pen to paper you get lost and all the fears and anxiety continue at a high level. Below are what continue to haunt me and my children on a daily basis. I still recall the time you woke up and looked over at me with this crazed look in your eyes. You kicked me so hard in my right jaw and right upper arm. I fell into the night stand, then onto the floor next to the bed.
As I boarded the plane to visit the last school on my college trip, I was tired. I had spent a week bouncing from motel to motel with my exhausted parents, and I didn’t think I’d find any more colleges that interested me. I thought that I’d seen it all. But seeing New Orleans on my way to campus revitalized me.
Suddenly the same words he told in his scary story were heard “Trouble, trouble, trouble…” Sam was so afraid he hid under his bed but he could still hear the soft dry whisper of what seemed like real ghosts. Sam thought Is Max right? Is my house really haunted? He sat in his bed for the rest of the night with tears slowly dripping down his face.
I was born on August 16, 1996. My mother has always told me that she knew I would be an impatient person: not only did I come a week early, there were only three hours between her water breaking and hearing my first cries. I was born into a somewhat poor family, but we always had enough to scrape by. A lot of people look back on their childhoods fondly, but I’m afraid I can’t say the same.
At the airport my friend Eduardo, since elementary school, and the coach from my college, picked me up at the airport. On the way to the college I was asking questions about the college to my friend because he knew better than I the college and the baseball team. I remember my first question that I ask Eduardo was that if the temperature became more heated because by that time the temperature was cold, and he said “Yeah, the temperature is going to get heated in a couple of weeks”, and I said “I hope so because I don’t like cold temperature”. We spend an hour to get to Clarendon College, finally I arrived and unpack my clothes and get everything really for my first day at College.
Candy wrappers were in the floor, old water bottles still in the cupholders, and jackets, basketballs, and bags piled in the back. It didn’t matter though because we were about to have the time of our lives. The first hour was boring as always. It was boring mostly because there was no new roads to drive or sights to see. It was along first hour, too.
I yelled "Mom, Dad, where are you?” When I went upstairs I saw all my mom’s books were gone. There was a note saying a leprechaun changed the house, and then there was another note from the leprechaun. The note said, “ If you want your house to be normal again go to your bedroom and find a clue.
The night of May 25, 2011, is a night that will vividly remain in the forefront of my memories. Myself, Junior, my husband and Mini Pearl our little Chihuahua, were living in Clarksville, on Rogers Avenue, in a spacious old brick home with our friend John “Doc” Strange, his daughter Kristen and his little dog Mischief. The brick house was built in the early 1900’s. Throughout the day and early evening threats of tornadic activity in our area was causing apprehension, trepidation and anxiety in our home.
As my friends, Bobo, Madison, and Ellie, and I are heading over to the great smoky mountains we decided to have some fun. We start by blasting music and speeding down the open highway, because after all the journey from Detroit 's is too long to be boring. We start by listening to some J Cole and then speeding down the highway in my Jeep wrangler. The sun shinning the roofless car became increasingly hot. As we all sunk into the story the lyrics told and talked about little things like the next big concerts we decided to pull off and grab some food at Culvers.
It was a cool breezy, spring night as we set off on our journey. The clocked showed 7pm and our destination was Clearwater Beach, Florida. We crammed into a van and set off on our journey. In the beginning, we shared some laughs. By the end of the journey, we shared even more laughs and fears for the future.
“Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this” (Andreae). I began to struggle with depression when I was in my second year of middle school. People always assume a major life event is what caused it, but nothing had changed: my dad moved out of state when I was in the fourth grade, I was friends with the same people I had been friends with the previous year, and I had never been very close with my step-father. But none of this was new to me, so what had caused this change in my mentality?