She also has a good relationship with her daughter-in-law. In April, T.S. saw his biological father for the first time in 15 years. He has one younger sister. P.S.
She has a fun memory despite the struggle of being poor. Next, she talks about her boyfriend and how he is being sent off to fight in the war over in Africa. She looks forward to the romantic side of it but is still saddened that he is leaving. Finally, she talks about her experience over at a camp where they learned to do many things that the government required them to do such as grow tobacco or cut sugar cane in order to produce around 10 billion tons of sugar. She explains the struggle of only having little food there because it was the ones her parents brought her during the weekends but she had to save it in order for it to last.
Summary Diagnosing the problem In "Diagnosing the problem" by Joel Alonzo the main idea is everyone feels homesick after they moved out from their family and go to college far away from home, especially first year at the college. At first in the story, Joel just applied to the University as a joke and he didn't think much. Then he had been accepted to the college. After received that news he didn't want to go to the college because he didn't want to leave home. But the day he go to the college came, while his mom drive him to the college he started crying and his mom tried to cheer him up.
My ninth grade was pretty cool until the last week of school I let my mouth get the best of me and said some things that I really should’ve not said and because I did I earned the next semester at the alternative school. When school started back I was very sad because I had to go to the “bad” school with all the “bad” kids and I was very nervous. Once I got there it was pretty cool and I really enjoyed it because the classes were smaller and you got more one on one help. My grades went up and my mom decided that I should spend the rest of the year there, which really messed me up because they did not offer any elective classes only the basics . My eleventh grade year was also a disaster because of the struggle of passing my biology state test and I was really distracted and just wanted to go back to the alternative school but my mom and the principle would not send me back.
For many years I was scared to go to college because I thought I wasn’t college material. Hearing Capitan Mark Kelly speak about being an underachiever, and a “not so great” student really helped me see that light at the end of the tunnel. When final build up the courage with in myself, I enrolled into San Jacinto College. The only thing that stood in the way was that standardize test. I had to take the entry exam after five years of not being in school.
At the start of my continuing my education, I reluctantly made the wrong choice. Criminal Justice was a career choice that I had chosen based on the high demand of Juvenile Probation Officers. Ignoring my original dream of becoming a Social Worker, I was unhappy in my studies. Though, very interesting, this direction was not for me. After one year of core competency study.
“You didn’t make the team this year,” are the gut wrenching words that have the power to bring a high school athlete to tears. After reading the team roster posted outside the coaches office and not seeing my name on it. As a freshman, I had always heard the stories of how former players had reacted to the news of being cut, some left school in tears, some tried to beg the coach to give them another chance, some hit a wall and broke their knuckles and most spent the next month in isolation not wanting to face former team mates. It only made the pain worse to see the look of sadness on the faces of your friends. Until it happens to you, it’s hard to imagine the dull and wrenching pain that rushes through your body.
For some of us seniors this could be the last game that we ever suit up for. Going into the playoffs we were in an unfamiliar position as we were the favorites to win it all, according to the polls. All year we heard that we weren’t disciplined enough to win district, let alone state. The online forums were covered by the fans from Greensville explaining and predicting how bad they would demolish us. This was just extra motivation and we had something
Little did I know that missing one practice on Labor Day would change everything. The day after Labor Day I arrived to school with rumors swirling from friends, and teammates that I am losing my starting position to one of the two guys the coaches were moving up from junior varsity to varsity. I brushed it off like it was nothing to me. Telling one of my teammates jokingly. “Yeah right if they do that to me I’ll quit and they will be begging me to come back.”
Kevin Oliveira Professor Madritch Expository Writing Literacy Narrative- Final Draft 30 September 2011 A Leap of Faith School ended and the brisk summer air gave me the feeling of a new beginning. Unfortunately, with every new beginning there is a past that haunts. My friend Jarred betrayed me many times before last summer; that is why I cut ties with him for months. As time went on my true friends began to see the effect he had on their trust, so they too disconnected themselves from him. I hated the sight of him and even his name, but deep down inside I missed our old friendship that had lasted since we were in kindergarten.