My Day - Original Writing "Brrrringggg brrrrringgg", the phone rings. I'm lying in my bed thinking, "Will someone answer the phoo onn neeepleasssseee!" But after about five minutes I realise my rays of hope that someone else will get up out of their pit and answer that blasted phone, have faded away. So I take a leap into the Artic room, the smell of sleep is now getting up my nose. But I can taste that dog breath when I swallow and the big lumps on my eyes, give me blurred vision. The worst thing is, when I finally am about 3 steps away from the phone, the ringing stops. But really I know in the back of my mind who is ringing all along, MY DaD! This is my dad's daily trick of getting us up in the morning. He starts ringing on his way home from the market, but it would be skilfully timed, so he would be about five minutes away from the house (the time it takes for one of us to get up and actually answer the phone). But he sneaks inside the house and waits until on of us are just a couple of steps away form the phone and then…. he hangs UP!! Then after his childish trick he announces throughout the house "Rise & Shine its Kellogg's Time!" This is his daily, ever not so funny trick. So I would drag myself into my used, ever so tight uniform and then make myself a delious breakfast usually containing, fat-filled bacon and a slice of home made ash! On my way to school I get the flying carpet; in other words the bus. The bus is a in an adventure in itself, as soon as I have chosen my seat, I sit down and the smell of the stale smoke of its past user, stenches my clothes. But my anguish is overcome when I am greeted by my schoolmates with a pile of slabbering! But the worst is James raking me up about how I should buy a John Deere and tell my dad to
Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon chronicles the year Rachel decided to ride the bus with her sister, Beth. Beth is a spunky and forthright woman with a mild intellectual disability. She builds a community of support through her favored pastime- riding the public buses around town. Rachel and Beth are close in age, but grew distant over time. Rachel agrees to spend a year riding the buses with Beth in an effort to mend their relationship. On their rides, Rachel is introduced to a troupe of bus drivers, who are funny, independent, knowledgeable, compassionate, and wise. As Rachel seeks to know her sister better, she also comes to better understand herself. This is facilitated by interactions with various bus
only be allowed to sit in the back of the bus? Could you image having
In the book by Carl Rogers, A Way of Being, Rogers describes his life in the way he sees it as an older gentleman in his seventies. In the book Rogers discusses the changes he sees that he has made throughout the duration of his life. The book written by Rogers, as he describes it is not a set down written book in the likes of an autobiography, but is rather a series of papers which he has written and has linked together. Rogers breaks his book into four parts.
BUS DRIVER: Hey Kid! Are you going to sleep there all day or get off my bus?
school. From a far distance, I saw a trolley was coming towards me. Being busy texting with a friend, I
One main thing that one needs to do be a successful passenger is to understand the rules that govern how the bus drivers behave, because this will effect the choices that you make. The bus drivers have a lot of rules they have to follow that are given to them by the management. For instance, they are supposed to do everything in their power to arrive at each bus stop at the posted time on the schedule. They are also supposed to only pick up passengers or let them off at designated CUE bus stops. The bus drivers must constantly balance these rules with another, unwritten rule - that they should be friendly and considerate to the people who are riding the bus. Sometimes these two principles come into conflict, and that's when things really get interesting. Some examples of times when they come into conflict are the following:
For example, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a bus service that students use. The campus itself is very huge compared to NIU. However, they have bus services that goes through the residence halls just like at NIU. The school shares with the city of Champaign as well. The service is called MTD which is the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District. Students can get on any bus with their student ID. University of Illinois has an app that tracks the exact time of the bus, just like NIU has. They have different routes that go well with the students and residents. All of the bus routes are labeled as colors. There are four primary campus routes are Gold, Yellow, Teal and Silver. These routes normally come every 10-15 minutes, and these routes continue throughout the nighttime. MTD has a service called Hopper service where these routes are used when the bus experiences high volume of people. They offer these during peak times of the
What accounts for these feelings is for one, I take public transit a lot, so to make me uncomfortable on the bus has to be a well thought out, guided effort by someone. I have seen various types of events happen on the bus, so most of the ride does not phase me. For way I got disinterested so quickly once we got to sixth ave was because at this point, people stop riding for so long and tend to get off at quicker intervals of stops. The people that stay on at this point got on way earlier on the route. Most likely starting at downtown or earlier.
I woke up to the pungent smell of hospital disinfect, invading my nostrils. The room was silent apart from my heavy breathing and the beep beep sound you often hear in hospitals that indicates you're alive. I slowly opened my eyes, squinting in attempt to sharpen the blurred images before me. I glanced around and took in the deserted, blue and white colour schemed hospital bedroom. How long have I been here? I shut my eyes, trying to remember what had exactly happened. Then it all hits me with a bang. The memory of it all starts to occupy my thoughts.
Students walk past it every day and nothing gets done about it. Our group has noticed these unfavorable aspects of the bus stop and are fighting for the ability to improve the bus stop for all UL students and faculty alike. With the help of several organizations on campus, this improvement to a vital part of the transit system will not be costly to the University. To bus riders an ideal bus stop is one that provides easy access to the bus, is convenient, and safe (Bus Shelters - Project for Public Spaces). The bus stop should provide riders protection from weather, and a feeling of safety and security (Bus Shelters - Project for Public
to do… or even worse, what was Granny Elma going to do? She was deaf!
list and more, good old dad. I think I've got about 10 coming plus all
in the ground with a picture of a bus on it which had the rank of 'bus
block. That is my school. The school sits on the hill with a sense of... ... middle of paper ... ...pudding. I am a snob.