When one is a home-schooled student, especially through the High School years, there are a lot of different and varied events and activities available: sports, Co-op classes, specialized field trips, family vacations turned into a mobile, remote classroom, and even a home-school prom. Some of these events, to enumerate only a few, include dance team competitions, volleyball competitions and tournaments, including regional and national level play, and baseball and softball competitions that culminate in a “world series” event for the home school teams. During these home-school years, my family and I had the opportunity to attend/participate in The Home School World Series for three consecutive years, held annually in Auburndale, Florida. Now, …show more content…
My family and I have been to Disney World many times, but on one of these trips, I invited my best friend to go with us, giving me the opportunity to experience Walt Disney World (WDW) with my best friend, who was experiencing Disney for her first time. Just arriving in the WDW complex, you realize that you are in a magical place. Mickey Mouse and other Disney sites great you along the Disney roads that get you to Main Parking and the Transportation-Ticket Center. From there, taking the ferry boat across the Seven Seas Lagoon, having the wind in your hair, the excitement of waiting for the ferry to dock, and taking your first steps into the happiest place on earth is a feeling that no one can ever take from you. After scanning our tickets and passing through the entrance gate, we walked under the train track, through a tunnel, and just watching my friends face build up with anticipation, that's the most exciting part. Opening upon the magical vista and Disney icon, Cinderella's Castle. Once we reached the inside of Magic Kingdom, we transitioned onto main street, meandering down the street, viewing and absorbing the magic of all the storefronts, such as The Emporium (the largest souvenir shop in the park), The Confectioner (the best candy store ever!), a coffee shop, the ice cream shop, and many more shops, including a blown glass shop, where an …show more content…
Seeing every detail that was put into the making of this structure is just incredible. Throughout the day, we visited each land within the Magic Kingdom. With the different lands of the park, comes different themes and rides to match with the themes. First, we explored Tomorrowland. This part of the park has Space Mountain, Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, Carousel of Progress, and also the Lilo and Stich: Stich's Great Escape. Standing in amusement park lines, takes up a lot of time of your day. With each ride comes a new line, with new people. Being with others in a tight space throughout the day is sometimes strange, but my friend and I usually ended up talking to half the line. After we completed enjoying all of the rides and the people in Tomorrowland, of course we moved onto the next, Fantasyland. In Fantasyland there are the most iconic Disney rides, “it's a small world”, Peter Pan's Flight, Mad Tea Party (spinning teacups) and Mickey's Philharmagic. When we got on “it's a small world” we couldn't help but sing the most annoying song. After that, we strolled to Liberty Square, the location of the Hall of Presidents only to find the best turkey legs in the entire
La Mirada offered organized ball on a year-round basis. Jennie joined her first league, L’il Miss T-Ball, after her fifth birthday. She was one of those kids who excelled at a number of sports, but her greatest love was always for baseball. Bev and Doug soon began channeling this passion almost exclusively into girls’ softball. Their daughter had good hand-eye coordination and excellent speed. But it was her arm that opened the most eyes. During winter vacation in Iowa one year, she celebrated her first snowfall by packing a snowball and literally heaving it out of sight.
There is an immense amount of rides in Walt Disney World. Some of the most famous rides are The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, Space Mountain, and the Rock 'n' Rollercoaster starring Aerosmith. Also known as The Tower of Terror, this incredibly detailed attraction takes people very high up so they can see out the window for just a second, until it drops them to what seems like their doom. This is done repeatedly, until the ride comes to stop. Another thrilling ride is Space Mountain. On this mostly pitch black journey, riders are pulled into action in ups and downs. Another exhilarating
Ever since I was a child, my family and I have been Disney fanatics. The Disney empire has created many amazing places, but my favorite location to visit is the Walt Disney World Resort. Every day 50,000 people from all over the world arrive at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida to experience the magic. When the park first opened its gates in 1971, 10,000 visitors made their way through. That number has multiplied five-fold and continues to multiply to this day. Since the 1971 opening, over 600 million people have experienced the magic of Disney. In my lifetime, I have visited the park with my family and friends six times. Each visit lasted four days in order to experience all the parks and their unique offerings. When I’m in Disney World, the experience each time is incredible.
Although homeschool student rights have risen in recent years in the nation and in Fauquier County, there are still steps to be made. According to the policies of the VHSL, or Virginia High School League, homeschool students are not permitted to participate in the athletic teams in public schools (Advocating for Homeschooled Children). This affects the more than 30,000 homeschool students in Virginia (Chapman). To define, homeschool is “school taking place outside of the public and private school setting” (Rockholt). Because of the numerous physical, mental, and social benefits that playing on an athletic team provides, it in the best interest of homeschool students and the entire educational community for them to be able to play on the athletic teams of public schools.
The sound of music, filling the air with happiness, resonates throughout the area. The scent of delicious buttery popcorn and glazed turkey legs that go on for miles and miles. The feeling of excitement coming into the place is felt in the atmosphere. It is the image of a once in a lifetime moment. When people come in, their imaginations become reality. The name describes itself perfectly. Walt Disney World is the place of dreams and imagination. People come from all around the world to see the rides, characters, food and the entertainment of Walt Disney World. I remember when I went to Disney World this past March. It was the third time I have gone to Disney World. To see the amazement and the expectation of the
A basic of Disney theme parks is the Main Street USA zone. This section features highly in all of the parks, usually coming right after the entrance. Key services like Guest Relations are located in this section, inside the "City Hall" (HK Disney Source, 2014). There are a number of elements to the Main Street, USA exhibit, and these will be discussed along with the history of Main Street USA in this paper. In particular, how the different elements of Main Street USA work together are covered. The concept has proven to be long-lasting, even across cultures, because of its magical portrayal of idealized American life, which draws heavily on Walt Disney's own childhood experiences.
Just because a student is walking the halls of a physical structure does not grant special privileges of participation in after school activities. People who oppose the right for homeschool students to participate may argue that homeschooling offers an easier work load than a student attending class every day. There are all different levels of what is considered “easy” to each individual student. If a student finds it “easy” in one of their classes should the teacher give them more work than the other students? Or, if it is “easier,” do these home school student receiver a less valuable diploma? All student still have to meet the requirements and standards of each subject studied in order to play on a given team (Ray 2015). Schools and their districts should be commending and encouraging students for taking control of their educational experience, to ensure they receive the best education and development to better prepare themselves for the
Every child dreams of going to a Disney park to experience the magic of their dreams up close. When I was nine I was given this dream come true. My parents took my brother and I to Disney World all the way in Florida. As a child I was always very cautious and concerned with following the rules, especially when we were in somewhere nice or visiting somewhere. When we went to Disney World my parents expected nothing different, however I let my dreams pull me away from reality all a little often. Two times stand out distinctly in my mind.
Walt Disney World, is known as the place where dreams come true. There, guests can engulf into the world of Disney by visiting places like Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom and more. Disney World is important to me because it is the place where I feel as if my dreams can come true and anything can happen. To truly understand what makes it so popular I had to learn about its creator and what it took for him to make a place as magical as Walt Disney World itself.
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People often fail to see the life-changing role sports can play for at-risk youth in low-income urban neighborhoods and the need for more sports-based youth programs to reduce crime and increase high school graduation rates in our cities. An article written about a year ago about “Royals, local government team up to open a youth urban baseball academy at 18th and vine,” The Kansas City Mayor calls it a dream and others called it a fairytale. Projects like this don’t come very often, or at least not nearly as often as we’d all like. They are calling it the Kansas City Urban Youth Academy. The possibilities are incredible. On the surface, they will be teaching baseball to kids from 6 to 18 years old, but really, they want to be doing much more than that. The only way communities can progress and build infrastructures like this one in areas that are termed as gang infested areas like this one is by spreading the message of love in community related events such as
Thus, the cast members of the Walt Disney World Resort’s Parks have mainly two important ideas in their mind, one is attention to detail and the other is to satisfy the customer need and wants in order to create unequalled wonderful experience. According to Walt Disney, “you can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it takes people to make the dream a reality”, which reflects the importance of the workers in the Disney’s
The Main Street station, is the curtains to a large production as if the Magic Kingdom was a theater. As I wander beneath the archway, I notice that above the arch is a plaque that reads: “Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy”. As I continue to stroll through the passage on the way to Main Street, there are posters of “upcoming attractions” that line the walls on both sides. I then step into Main Street U.S.A. and begin to hear the Victorian style orchestra playing over the speakers. I notice some Disney pals in Town Square greeting guests as if they were old friends. Then I begin to travel further down the street, and the smell of the caramel apples, chocolate chip cookies, and other sweets walk out of the open doors of the bakery and into the street. At the end of this turn of the century town, sits the one hundred eightyninefoottall, Cinderella Castle. This moment is a pivotal moment in any Disney vacation, because the castle is well known to millions. I get
The second I stepped foot onto the amusement park’s property, I could feel the magic swirling all around me. As I walked through the crowds of people young and old wearing Disney apparel and Mickey Mouse ears, everything seemed so enchanting: the cheerful music, the twinkly lights on all of the buildings, and the stores that could have been from my favorite Disney movies. Walking along the streets, I took pictures of everything around me because I did not want to forget a single detail; I took pictures of the vibrant yellow, red, and pink flowers that lined the streets, the buildings with intricate details and designs, and the massive roller coasters that glided so swiftly on their tracks. The air was filled with heavenly scents of sweet churros, and I had to get one; it was delectable. Everything at Disneyland seemed perfect and like it was out of a movie. Even as I was about to leave, I got drawn back in; spectacular, bright, colorful fireworks started bursting right over my head, and I could not bring myself to go. My first visit to Disneyland was truly enchanting and magical. At the time I thought no other vacation could
When I heard my parents talking about going to Disney World I was so excited. It was a long trip down to Florida and I could not sit still, because I was so excited. We finally arrived that evening and decided to stay in a hotel near the theme park. When it was time for bed I could not go to sleep for a long time, because I was so excited about going at Disney world. When I saw the big mirror ball from the entrance, I was amazed. Disney world had a wide variety of rides. There were tons of rides that shocked me. Some of these rides made you feel like you were riding in a jet because of how fast they were. There was even a roller coaster ride in the huge mirror ball. It was a slow ride, but I still liked it because there was air conditioning inside the ball. We spent all day at the park until we had ridden everything. That night Disney World had a firework show. The fireworks seemed like they lasted forever with the amazing colors bursting in the air one right after another. When the firework show finally ended my parents told me that it was time to leave. I was...