It was a nice day – bright and warm. The orphanage was going to put a new wash on the old peeling walls. We needed a fresh place for the children. All of us workers were discussing which colour would suit the place best. It came down to white. Pure and simple – innocent like the children. I’ve worked at the orphanage for ten happy years. Seeing the children grow and becoming a part of new families became the highlight of my life. From Monday to Friday I would go to the college. I had one year left until I would become a high school teacher. On the weekends, I would drive to the orphanage early in the morning, and come home late at night, or sometimes I would even spend the night there. The orphanage was my second home. The children became a part of me. One day, I would adopt one, and raise them as one of my own. We finished painting all the walls at exactly eight in the evening. We planned to paint the last coat next morning. For now the staff was taking a rest, admiring our work. Bedtime was at eight-thirty, so our break was cut short. Anyways, bedtime was the best part of the day. My favourite kids were John, Mary, and David. John and David were both six and Mary was a year younger. They were the best of friends, and David and Mary were blood brother and sister. They all slept in the same room, “Room Destiny”. All the rooms had names; Room Luck, Room Love, Room Eternity, and so on. Even if the three are separated later in life, I believed they were destined to meet again. However, that night changed all of our lives. The staff went home early. It was my night to clean the orphanage. I was busy washing dishes when I heard soun... ... middle of paper ... ...t him this horror. For the next few days, Jacob did not attend school. Ms. Something had found out Mary knew the truth about Jacob, herself and David, so she told Mary not to tell David anything. David kept asking where Jacob was, and said that Jacob still had to help him finish the project. All three of them were upset, but most of all, it was Ms. Something who was truly heartbroken. Last night, she had received an apology letter from Jacob, and with that, a document saying that when he dies he will donate his eyes to David. The next morning, the principle told the teaching staff that a student named Jacob Yonge died in a car accident the night before. It was said by the police that Jacob had committed suicide by speeding his car into a light post. “An eye for an eye” – those were his last words in the letter.
When a young adult decided to go to college they have a very big decision to make about what their future will hold and where their future will begin. Once the decision has been made and college has begun, new friends are made and the actions they do shape who they will become. Weekends come and go, but the decisions that are made are different for each and every individual that attends college. There are those who choose to stay on campus and spend the weekend doing things around school with new friends, others choose to go home for different reasons, such as being homesick and wanting to be with family or spending the time off of school for work to help pay for tuition, also there are the students who choose to go to other institutions to see new friends they have made or visit old ones from high school. What I am attempting to understand is with my target population, is not only what the group chooses to do with their weekend time, but also to try and understand why they choose to do what they do with that time.
Response to Shakespeare's Presentation of the Responsibilities and Obligations Placed on Sons by Fathers in Hamlet
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...uld not have chatted with my family and friends, I dont think I would have lasted for this long. I also like to draw, write songs and dance, all of which involve a type of storytelling. So writing and storytelling is my life.
I was so ashamed of my physical appearance and nostalgic of my senior year of high school, that I isolated myself from the majority of the people I’d met. I started binge watching Netflix in my dorm room, making frequent trips to a nearby dermatologist and crying to my mom and friends from home about how I hated school and wanted to transfer ASAP. I was cold, lonely and ugly. I couldn’t wait for winter break so I could forget about my sucky dorm and lack of college friends for a while.
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college, but I had to put my child and myself first. Don’t get me wrong, none of my kids will ever be consider mistakes, but I just wish I would have continued on with the path that I had planned. I know looking back I would have been able to handle raising a child while taking a few college classes each
Growing up I never had time for anything. A normal teenage boy would’ve gone out almost everyday or just partied , what I basically , mean is that they would’ve been very outgoing and social. I on the other side I was a boy who didn’t had time to hangout friends , had to handle with work , school and sports. Waking up at 6 in the morning take a shower , change and by 7 had to get out from my house or I would’ve been late to school. Always had to walk , in the rain or snow it didn’t matter I had to walk because my older sister needs the car for her to go to college. After I get to school I had to do my do now for physiology and always trying to understand the class because I really don’t like science , but I had to try my best to get a good
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It was a bright sunny day, the sky was a soft shade of blue and there
It was a beautiful day like any other with the clear blue sky and the
It was one of those days where you’re glad to be awake early in the morning, before the afternoon gets scorching hot. The feeling of the cool breeze gently caressing your arms and legs is always something to look forward to, and many people would be swayed into taking a nice walk outside under the trees.
high school because it had prepared me for college. Back then when I went to school I would just think of school a place where I get to talk to my friends and have fun. I was not gifted and I did not work hard either because school was a place where I felt my parents would force me to go to. I would never had made it to college if I gave up on education because my senior year I felt really lazy and I didn’t know what to...
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