SLINKER ENGL 101
Writing assignment #2 Personal Reflection
On September 21, 2012 there was an away football game. I was at an away volleyball tournament and got back at around 4:30-5, and my boyfriend Jordan was going to wait for me but his little brother needed his inhaler and he played at 5:30 so Jordan headed out early and told me he loved me and he would see me at the football game little did I know that’s the last thing id hear from him. Jordan and Kyle, one of my best friends were in a fatal car accident. Jordan passed away at the scene. Kyle was life flighted to a nearby hospital. I was at my house getting ready at the time of the accident, so my mom called and told me not to leave, which I didn’t, so I waited in the kitchen for my mom to get home. When she did, I have never seen my mom with such a helpless look on her face, she told me about the wreck, but the paramedics did not bother identifying which survived and which was being life flighted to the hospital. Within ten minutes, Jim, Kyle’s grandpa called my mom and broke the news; Jordan had passed away in the wreck. I was broken, I dint know how to react, I pushed all my friends away and I pushed all my family members away. All expect for Kirsten, she was there since freshman year and this incident happened my junior year, it was almost two weeks before she contacted my mom and asked if I was okay and what she could do to
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Yes she and I still argue maybe once every few months, but she and I learned allot about each other when this happened. We both learned how to help each other instead of just slamming doors and walking away. We talk things out and we even sometimes joke about some things most mothers and daughters dot even talk about, she’s my best friend and I don’t know what id do without her in my
“I’m so sorry. He died at the scene of the wreck. The Truck landed on him and killed him instantly.” I laid there in silence and began crying. He then took my hand and said, “I’m so sorry for your loss.
They came and went in shifts that final week, everyone exhausted and mute with sadness,” to explain the grief that Jerry experienced (Cormier 58). Another example of a pessimistic mood occurs after explaining the death of Jerry’s mother, the author shows the toll it took on Jerry and his father’s
My family was murdered and, I became lonely. My father works a lot, so I never get to see him unless it’s a special occasion.” “You must talk about this a lot.” “What makes you say that? I’ve never talked about this before.”
.On any given day there will be a group of students working on their associates degrees that have been there long before I started to attend Wayne County Community College. They are a little older than I am, most being around the age of 23. They spend their time playing video games while I stand mind going to class. I consider this group to be friends but I am scared this is what my future will be like if I remain at this institution.
Assignment Submitted By Yours Name here Submitted To Yours Instructor Name here To Meet the Needs of the Course Nov., 2015. Over my first year of college, I think I have truly built up my writing aptitudes.
Kyle’s day started off poorly, he was late to his first class as he couldn’t find his way around the school. During lunch he sat by himself, making his day even worse. Kyle was really starting to miss his old friends back in Wyoming. He and his friends used to do everything together; they played basketball, did homework, and attended church together every Sunday. But by the end of the day Kyle was in a better mood.
It was Saturday morning, a great day at Televisa I had been ecstatic knowing I was going to interview a famous individual. I had no clue of who I would be interviewing today all I knew was that person was famous. Previously I had interviewed many Mexican famous people and I was always fond of doing so. I came upon many great people with great heartfelt stories; it was like vividly picturing their life as my own.
and I learned to speak up. I became someone who doesn’t let people walk all over her anymore and I became determined to prove everyone wrong about
One challenge that i have faced and that impacted me in a drastically manner was my cousins death. Many people overcome a death in a few weeks, but it took me a while to face the fact that I was no longer going to see him. His death really effected me because he was the only one who supported my dreams in going to the army . I guess it was because he was in the army at that time. I would always get put down because my dreams where not for a girl
When I was in the second grade of school, my grandmother made fried chicken. I got so sick that my stomach was in prodigious amounts of pain and I was vomiting. My grandmother called my mother to let her know I was being taken to the hospital and why. My mom and I informed her she was over reacting; also, the pain and vomiting was probably just the stomach flu or food poisoning.
That is to say we fought many times. Since we are both too stubborn to admit the other was right, there were many fights to be honest. It was pretty bad until one day changed my entire outlook. My grandma had a rare blood cancer that caused her body to reject her blood which meant that she had to go to the hospital every week for a blood transfusion. I remember seeing her after a transfusion and noticing the dark bruises that would form at the spot where the needle was injected.
I was sitting next to my mother and father on our couch when he had to deliver the news I had hoped would only manifest itself as a worst case scenario in the deepest parts of the back of my mind. Not only had my mother finally been diagnosed with a dementia that will leave her inept and unable to speak towards the end of her life, she had been fired from her job- my three person family’s main source of income- , and had also lost the ability to drive. This was in 2013. Throughout my life, I have had to be strong in circumstances that most people would never even give a thought of happening to them. In the early stages of her mental illness, I was very small and my family didn’t know that anything was wrong; but I did.
But, she and I were best friends, just like us. And after she and I were over, I realized that after she moved, ‘Oh shit, I lost a best friend’. And I was wounded. I CANNOT lose another best friend. I refuse to.
My journey in this English 3001 course during the past ten weeks, and over the course of taking is English class I have grown and learned more that I thought it is necessary for me to know as a student. I have improved in my overall writing skills because if you look at my second in-class essay and the rest of my essay you will see that I have made progress and improvement compare to my diagnostic essay and the first in-class essay. Moreover, now that I have completed the English course my skills are better that I am capable to meet the university standard writing requirements. This English course additionally taught me how powerful the composed word and language can be. This quarter my ability to compose essays and express my thoughts, ideas,
Reflective Essay I chose to interview Donna because I knew she grew up on a farm and I grew up in a big city. This made her culturally different than me. In my essay I wrote about how it only took 1 year of college to become a teacher. Now I have to go to a minimum of 4 years of college.