With four minutes, thirty three seconds to go, the score was tied at thirteen a piece. Now my coach, Von Sigler, was never one to put me in on what was considered “crunch-time”, however this
So, we asked Coach Michael to check his GPS. He did, it turned out we weren’t even on a road. The bus driver took many twists and turns. With each turn we were getting more and more lost.
Something such as returning back to school was long gone and in my past goals. After a couple of years I never thought I would end up going back to school since everything that I wanted was going good and according to plan. However sometimes we are faced with tough situations where we must find other resources in order to improve and better ourselves. Going back to school was one of the most important and wise decisions that I have ever made. Finding well-qualified candidates for a job or career nowadays is a challenge, especially in the field that I am currently in; law enforcement.
Have you ever realized that as you get older you slowly have less and less time to do anything fun or spontaneous? For me, I may not be considered old, but lately it seems to be getting harder to do anything such as hanging out with friends, hanging out with my girlfriend, and even just watching television. As I get older it is becoming increasingly difficult to stay young. All of my time has been taken with the pressures of school, so that I can build a career, and working 2 jobs. I’ve been working at McDonalds for about 3 years and The Home Depot for almost a year now.
It is a cloudy morning in Frisco, TX a small city thirty miles north of Dallas. I had just arrived from Amman, Jordan two month ago and I have been going to school for a month now. I hear my mom calling me to wake me up like an alarm clock “BASHAR WAKE UP, YOU’RE GOING TO BE LATE AGAIN TO SCHOOL” I act like I didn’t hear anything and cover myself under the sheets of the bed and went back to sleep. I never liked school, Growing up I never thought to myself that going to school and obtaining a degree is the best way to secure my future and to be successful.
track race 2015 It was saturday when I had a race at sparta and I was in the car with my dad because it was raining outside so we waited for the rain to stop then I would find my team. As I watch the rain fall from the big black sky I could see the ran drop fall one by one. When the rain stopped Me and my dad got out of the car we we walked to find my team.
Showing up to school 20 minutes late with bags under my eyes and coffee in-hand, I offered a superficial apology and explained to my teacher that I “slept through my alarm again”. I refused to tell him the real reason I was late. Yet every part of me wanted him to understand that I went to school for seven hours the previous day, worked for six hours that same night, and stayed up hours before the sun was to rise again finishing homework. Then I woke up early the following morning to wake up my mother and ensure she got to her job on time. Being the oldest sibling at home, I took it upon myself to make sure my mom didn’t lose her job-again.
I woke up to the sound of my alarm blasting in my ear. When, I look at the time it read 5:35 a.m. I tried to turn it off but it would stop so I chucked it across the room. It broke. Great, now that adds to my collection of perfume bottles.
This morning I arrived into Ms.Tobasco’s classroom I had seen on the board when I walked into the classroom and sat down at my desk that we had a assignment the night before and that we needed to pull up the assignment so Ms.Tobasco could go around the room and check to make sure it was done. I had completely forgotten about the assignment that night I had such a busy night that I also really didn’t have any time to get my assignment done. I had to watch two kids named keiley and brayden I had to help them get there own homework done and had to feed them it was just along process by the time my boss had gotten home it was eleven o’clock at night I then had to go home and still had a lot to do so when I got home it was about almost twelve midnight
Many things matter to me whether it’s in school or out of school, my first topic is going to be about things that matter to me. The first one that always comes to my mind when I think about things that matter to me is my family. My dad , my mom, my sister, and my dogs all matter to me. My grades matter to me too, my grades matter a lot because I want to be able to have a stable career and not end up working at mcdonalds or something along those lines. I wanna be an FBI agent when I grow up so I need good grades to be able to go to do that .
I eventually merge onto the highway with a split second opening, I know my journey is almost over. Stuck in northbound traffic, with nothing to look at besides concrete walls and the back and sides of surrounding vehicles. Cars all jammed together like sardines, barely moving with the constant traffic. I park one shuttle stop away from UOW due to the lack of car parking and I catch the free shuttle over. 5 minutes extra on top of my 30-minute
The timing conflict seems to be a problem with Charles schedule, but even students with no car on campus know the pain that drivers go through. When parents come up it can be just as much a problem or even worse because it just adds to the traffic throughout the campus. Milan, sees the problem a
The walk to the airport security was fast and we seemed to get there within a second. Clutching my ticket, I could feel my face getting red and my eyes puffing up. My mom stood in front of me, looking at me like I was about to take on the world. As she pulled me in for a big goodbye hug the tears came in full force. I quickly turned away from her and ran to the security line.
The sun shone brightly through the bus windows as me and my classmates approached our school. We were about to leave the sunlight and enter the building we spend 40 hours in every week, one with few windows and almost no real food. As the bus pulled to a stop, we started exiting the bus, barely chatting on how it was impossible for it to be this cold while the sun was still shining. Welcome to Texas. As we walked into the building, we split up and went our separate ways.
The one think that sticks out to me though all of my years of education is my first year in school. Pre-K I remember this like yesterday I went to Hawthorne Elementary right on Josephine Street the building was an old tanned building I remember walking in the double door which I believe were this ugly brown color I know it did not go with the building my mom had was holding my hand in one hand and my other I had white with blue line baby blanket I did not leave anywhere with that blanket as we walk up some tiny steps into the hallway my five year four year old self was feeling great because all I was thinking was I have my mom with me and we are going to have a great day as we walking down the hallway into the cafeteria which smelled with a mix of pancakes and tacos with kids and a parents everyone it was not too bright in there at a dim look to it when we walked in to the cafeteria we meet a teacher aid by the name of Mrs. Carmen she was an old Hispanic lady with white blond hair sweet lady. my mom told me to go with Mrs. Carmen as she took my barney shaped backpack off my back and placed it on the table when my mom did that I
