Many people think having a perfect life is having a lot of money, doing whatever you want, and having everything you ever wanted. But in my mind, that isn't the perfect life. The perfect life to me is living life to the fullest creating memories you won't forget and creating friendships that last forever. Many people think that when something bad happens in life it is the devil trying to get to you, but you have to use that to motivate yourself to be the greatest you can be. Now here are some of my lifelong lasting memories and stories that motivate me to be the greatest I can be. To start off, I have had many pets in the 13 years I have been alive. But I have one that meant the world to me. Her name was Kemi, and she was an Alaskan...show more content...
I remember thinking that they had magical powers to fix almost anything, and they always worked like a charm. This has been the greatest gift I have ever received and I don't know if I would be who I am today if it weren't for those hearts. I have had a lot of memories as a child, but there is one that sticks out the most. A few years ago my family went to Brevard for vacation. Now, this is a place in the middle of nowhere, I was just surrounded by woods. But there was this place we went to down there called sliding rock. Now, this is just a waterfall but runs down a hill so it is like a really long slip and slide. Even though the water was freezing cold, everyone in my family goes in even my dog. This is one of my greatest memories because that was the perfect day in my mind. A person who has the biggest influence on me in my life is a girl named Rachel... she lives in Ireland and came over to spend a summer with my family. She opened my eyes to how life was like in different areas of the world. Even though she only stayed for a summer I formed a lifelong bond and lifelong memories. One of the greatest thing I remember is how she told us there were no bugs in Ireland. That alone was enough to make my mom want to move. We are going to go visit her this summer. You have to learn to see the good in the bad and you have to be the one there when people need you most. If you get this down then you will
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My Life
I was born in San Jose, Costa Rica, and moved to California when I was very young. Before I moved to California my dad traveled back and forth for 2 or 3 yrs from California and back to Costa Rica. He spent most of his time working in the Fresno area, in the cities of Tulare, and Visalia. He says he spent his time working in any available job including some farm labor jobs and went back to Costa Rica to spend time with us. After the second time he left Costa Rica to come and work he did not go back. At that time, amnesty was given to immigrants in California, and he moved up north to the Bay area to find a steady job. That is when he saved enough money for my mother, my twosiblings, and I to join him in California.
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I was in ESL programs until I entered junior high school. Learning the language, and trying to keep up with the class work was a challenge for me. Having friends who spoke my language, and the English language as well was an advantage I had. Having that extra help and support really made my school experience challenging, but exciting as well. Remembering the support I received from those friends creates a need in me to do the same for other people. I don't only believe that the support that I can give to migrant students as a Mini–Corps student will help them in succeeding in school, but I believe that an appreciation for school can be gained as well, and hopefully bring insight for continuing their studies beyond high school. As I improved in my English I also grew an interest in writing. I enjoyed my English classes, along with my math classes too. My interest grew and grew, and I joined summer girl programs. After participating two year, I became a mentor to those new peers coming into the program. I worked with teachers in Science, and in Math classes. I also participated in the volleyball activities, and group activities. This is when I realized I wanted to work with youth my whole life. My interest in English, and my interest in being a role model to youth made me decide to become an English teacher, especially working with students whose first language is not English.
Now, I am a college student. I first went to UC Santa Barbara, where I dealt with more
God's calling on my life was unclear before I came to Evangel, I said many prayers asking God what his plan was for my life. While I still don't know the whole plan he has slowly confirmed and revealed more and more of it throughout the time I have been attending here. Along with my "calling" God has revealed what it means to be a Christian and he has done that through people, sermons, and through the books I have read in Essential Christianity. While I may not know all of the answers, I know God will reveal more of it when the timing is right. Throughout my life I have always been known as the "sensitive" one. People labeled me that and sometimes it would be a positive but most of the time it was not. I always saw it as a negative quality and I never understood why God made me this way. However, as this semester has progressed I see being "sensitive" in a different way now. One of my strength is empathy, this means that I am able to sense other people'sfeelings by imagining myself in the same situation. While the description sounds like a positive, the way this comes across in my life has not always come across in a positive light. When people tell me stories, positive or negative, I can feel my heart rejoicing or breaking with them. This is when I would be accused of being "too sensitive" because I would get upset when I see these heart breaking stories or I saw those commercials that involved neglected animals or abused children. However, since the day in class that we
Road trips make for great writing, especially if you are driving alone. All you have is the road and your thoughts. Even the radio is turned off eventually, as silence takes precedent. This was my experience a few weeks ago, driving home from a pseudo–family reunion. My first thoughts were basic; what I had to do the following week, how great it had been to see all my friends, and how good Jordan had looked that weekend. Yet, as my drive progressed, my thoughts began to wander. I began thinking about my life; what I had already accomplished and what was still waiting for me. I realized that there are so many things that I want to do before I die. I quickly sorted through them in my mind and this is what I discovered.
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Just once, I would like to see the smile on a child's face who is receiving a Christmas gift for the first time. This would be an exceptionally humbling and rewarding opportunity.
My sister and I have always dreamt of backpacking through Europe. I would like to share that experience with her. So that someday when we are old and forgetful, we can make inside jokes about the beautiful men we flirted with in Prague and smile at the memories of brownies in Amsterdam. I long to spend my honeymoon strolling down the Champs–Elysee in Paris, standing in the corridor of Notre Dame, and kissing my husband on the top of the Eiffel Tower. I want to travel. I've been to many places, including Australia, Russia, and Costa Rica, but there are still many places that I would like to visit. I want to stand in front of the Lincoln Memorial and feel pride for my country. I would like to walk on a glacier in Alaska. Someday I would enjoy the pleasure of walking through the tulips in the Netherlands and scuba diving in the Great Barrier Reef. These are the places I've seen in my dreams.
There are so many things I want to learn how to do. I want to learn how to take photos. Not just simple pictures, but those masterpieces that make people stand back and admire them. I want to learn how to sail; someday standing on the bow of a boat, staring at the horizon. Just me and the water. Someday I want to be able to play the great pieces of Mozart and
One's dream and aspirations to supersede in life must be stronger and greater than limitations set forth by others. The experience that were bestowed to me during my short life has elevated me to the woman I am today. Please walk with me as I give you the opportunity to see the world from my eyes:
To be the person that I am now, I had to reflect and accept accountability of my past actions. My past is one that many would love to erase from their memory, a past, which remained dormant, until I found myself. The steps involved in regaining myself encompassed letting go of my anger and self pity. I had to look within myself and see my self's worth, which lead to my belief that I
ran away to college to forget my past.
During the years...show more content... Put education first and everything else will fall into place." I didn't realize how true these words were, until I came face to face with my past. My last year in college, changed the whole course of my life. Near the end of my junior year, I befriended a guy, who never would become my boyfriend. I knew he was infatuated with me, so I lead him on. He ended up stalking me and making several death threats. I never understood the phrase "in fear of your life", until then. Tallahassee Police Department(TPD) got involved but there wasn't much they could do except file a police report and wait. This was a very frightening time in my life and consequently I became very disconnected with life. I never provided TPD with my stalker's name, in fear that he would kill me if I did. I moved to a different apartment complex across town, thinking that it would make all my problems go away. He ended up finding me and making more serious death threats against me and my family if I didn't leave Tallahassee.
I had a mental breakdown after the last death threat and I left Florida State University my senior year, I went back home to deal with my traumatic ordeal. I quickly transferred to Florida International University and graduated the following year with my graduating class at Florida State. Graduation day should have been one of the happiest days of my life, but instead I was terrified Get
During the course of my life I have had many encounters with people from different walks of life than my own, this comes from me moving between different homes due to the joint custody my parents shared over me. Due to the constant change of the surrounding environment I was always in constant flux of having to reacquaint myself with those around me, this led to it being easier for me to accept those that had differing personalities and views from me because I was looking for a type of comradery, however in recent years while I'm not that quick to seek out comradery in such a fashion it doesn't mean that I've become any less accepting of those who have differing views in fact I appreciate it when others have differing views from me for that gives a chance to learn and become more personally invested in another person since it requires learning more about them to get a better understanding of them. When it comes to being nonjudgmental personally I have a policy about being judgmental that was instilled in me from the moment I was born which was further enforced from the constant bullying and teasing I received for my size and odd nature during my youth. My mother used to tell me not to judge anyone for I know not of their home life or what they may be going through at any point and time so I made that a rule to live by. Another example I have of being nonjudgmental was over the summer when I worked as a day camp counselor at the YMCA I worked with a lot of children and most Get
When I was 8, my family and I lived in small house in the city town. Our life was a little bit hard, everyone in the family is always busy, my mom went to work most of the time and my dad, too. My sister and me we both have school during the day and tutoring class after school. Sometimes, I only see my mom twice a week even though she is home everyday at midnight because of her busy work. My dad is in charged of taking me to school and picking me up after tutoring class, but he also have his job, he have to get everything in schedule in order to get everything in fit. On weekend, I am alone by myself at home or sometimes I go to my friend house and stayed there throughout the week. That was how our life was until my family got into a situation that I was thinking it is going to be bad, but it came out that I have learned a wonderful life lesson.
One day I came home from school and put my backpack on the hanger, slowly walk into the kitchen where my mom is making food for our family dinner. I sat down and say "Hi mom, I'm home" with an excited but also tired voice. Then suddenly, she turns back and walk to me, sit down on the chair and asked "So, how was school school today, my dear? Did you have fun? What have you learned today?" with an lovely voice. "School was fine today, I learned a lot from all of my classes, but the most important thing that I have learned today was in my math class, my teacher taught me how to write an equation using a formula that can help me in
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Moving forward with the concepts and lessons I learned in the section Create Your Dream Life, I am slowly and steadily trying to improve my way of life. I started to notice and evaluate my life situations to comprehend what, when, and how I need to change. I am beginning to increase my self–perception and cognitive flexibility while balancing my dashboard more effectively. AlthoughCareer Perspectives is opening my eyes to new possibilities and teaching me new concepts, it is difficult to change in a blink of an eye. While growing and changing, I am reminded that creating my dream career reflects my dream life; they complement one another. Society has at least two perspectives of passions: It leads us to perceive that passions will not make us enough money to lead a good life; and on the opposite end of the spectrum, society says "do what you love and never work a day in your life" or "do what you love, and money will follow." They always leave out the concept of "get great at what you do." I often mistake passions and interests as one in the same, which confuses me when I am trying to decide my career path. I know I am interested in a variety of things, but I wasn't sure what exactly I was passionate about. Learning that sometimes our passions have a gravitational pull towards them, I noticed that some of my answers always seem to repeat themselves. A few years ago, I realized a dilemma within myself: I always say, but I do not do. Ever since that moment of realization I
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Family Experience Born in December of 1977, I was an early Christmas present to a young couple. My parents chose to adopt because they were told that they could not have children. I was adopted as an infant and my parents were able to take custody of me almost immediately after birth. I was actually the second child that my parents adopted. I have an older sister that was adopted as well. My mother always wanted a large family and she got her wish. My mother went on to give birth to two more children despite the earlier information from her doctors that stated she could not have children. Since I can remember, my parents have told me that I was an adopted child. My baby book has photographs of me in the arms of my mother and...show more content...
Now that I am a husband and a father it is a goal of mine to ensure I keep my work and family life balanced. I strive to focus on the quality of time I spend with my family when I am not able to get the quantity that I wish. I have a challenging career that requires a significant amount of my time and going back to school definitely makes it more challenging. I know that investing my time and energy in my education will allow me to spend more time with my family in the end and enable me to become a better provider. Educational Experience I was raised in a private Christian school as a child. I attended this school until I was in the sixth grade. In the sixth grade, my parents transitioned me to the public school system. I believe the lessons and faith I learned in the private school system have helped me become a better person. When I was younger, I took a great interest in school and did well. After transitioning to the public school system, I lost interest and my grades began to decline. School was never a priority for me and I put very little effort into studying or getting good grades. I have always seemed to retain information rather easily and did well enough on tests to pass classes despite not turning in many assignments. It seemed I always did just enough to pass. In fact, my GPA was just enough for me to graduate. As I got older, I realized the value of education and had flashbacks of all the educators of my past that said, "One Get more content
Daily life 1 I remember waking up on a Saturday morning and I would find Sylvia the housekeeper working on the supper following that smell, I say good morning while I squeeze her from behind. And take my place at the table, but previous to I have awakened my sister she will come to the table and do the same thing that I did. I would get ready in packing my books, Sherlyn my sister, two years younger would be pestering me about how she is better than me at everything but despite this problem, together with Sylvia we will leave the house and she will take us to the catechism. I recall how she used to get very angry at me She would get mad and hit me on the shoulder I will respond and bump into her before telling me I am stupid, but not after I say that a stupid person is the stupid one for saying that a person is stupid, of course, it doesn't make sense at all even so Sylvia will demand for us to stop the fight before, sisters should love each other not fight that fighting is just ugly. I walk behind her and Sylvia she would walk right behind me, that road every Saturday afternoon, I could smell gasoline from my father business that was not far from where I was and overhear the sound of a motorcycle rumbling in the street unrestrained, I looked at the sky, blue with such a pure color of white clouds, I close my eyes for a moment to enjoy the moment. I try to walk side by side in such a dirty unpaved road surrounded by brick houses of different shapes and Get
Personal Narrative My Life
I never really thought about where my life was going. I always believed life took me where I wanted to go, I never thought that I was the one who took myself were I wanted to go. Once I entered high school I changed the way I thought. This is why I chose to go to college. I believe that college will give me the keys to unlock the doors of life. This way I can choose for myself where I go instead of someone choosing for me. I have chosen to go to the local community college to get used to the college experience. College life can be an exciting time but at the same time it can be a challenge. I feel that starting out at the community college would be a better chose than "jumping" into life at a...show more content...
I know this is what I want to do with my life. I want to be a positive influence in the lives of children. I want to be able to stand up and show the children that it is okay to be yourself and stand up for what you believe in. I am a well round student. For nine years I was actively involved in a girls organization. This experience taught me many things. We were actively involved in community service activities, for which I received the Silver Award. ( The second highest award in the organization.) I learned about the value of friendship and patients with others. This organization first introduced me to my future career. I was also involved for three and a half years in a student government club on campus. In this club I learned many life lessons. One of which was the value of hard work. I was one of the few people that organized the Junior/Senior Prom of 2000. My responsibilities included planning corranation, buying and organizing decorations, planning the busing schedule, booking the photographers, fundraising, ect. This taught me about hard work. But the best part of it was going to Prom knowing I was one of the only reasons that it happened. As far asschool goes, my schedule is very diverse. I am taking child development lab, which is a class where students from my high school can go to the local elementary schools and work one on one with the students. I have work in the elementary school for two and a half years. I
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This explains the beginning of my life all the way to the end of my life. My life from the beginning was very fun as I grew up living with my mom's friend and my friend. But there were a lot of fights and I was very hyper back then. I have ADHD so back then when I was little; I was very hyper and wouldn't stop moving around the place. I always was annoying back then and never seemed to get my homework done at school. I was born at Kaiser Hospital during the year 1996. The first place I lived was on the street Via Harriet and was right next to a train. It was always noisy when the train passed by because it shook the house and scared all the animals. It wasn't the best place to live, but we eventually moved to the hills, I don't remember...show more content...
Overall I know that I'm going to graduate because I'm pushing hard and all I need to finish is my Cyber High and keep up my grades and I will graduate. I want to go to Chabot College because it's the closest place to go to. I am planning to get my associates degree then transfer to Cal State East Bay University. I don't exactly know the requirements of classes to get into Cal State, but as long as I get my AA degree I should be fine. I am focused on technology and computers; I like to choose classes that can be similar to wiring or soldering. I am not that sure if I would be more focused on computers or wiring, I think an Internship might help me out. My career would be Technician or Electrician because I'm focused on electricity and wanting to discover what would happen without getting electrocuted. I'm still unsure if I just want to work on physical components on the computer. I used to work on computers a lot, but it got boring and I can't do it as great now. Soldering is interesting for me because I get to repair broken wires, being able to strip a wire. When striping a wire, you get to know how the wire is connected. I think a life event for me is to grab my master's degree, which is what I'm focused on. That's like the best degree to get, but it's really difficult to receive. I wouldn't like going to years and years of education, but it's totally worth it. Getting a higher degree affects the amount
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On the other hand the first statement I choose that exemplifies my life experience is "I feel attracted and drawn or called to a spiritual journey" (Atchley, 2009, p. 64). There may be a stage in an individual's life where they can be unfulfilled with the direction of their personal trajectory. I genuinely believe that the contemporary main–stream society we reside in places too much emphasis upon the pursuit/accumulation of material possessions, endeavoring to maintain a youthful appearance, the acceptance of self–indulgence and completely removing God from our daily lives. I perceive that without engaging in God's will and by assisting one another an individual can attain meaning and purpose in their life. In addition by aiding other people who may need assistance an individual is not primarily contemplating upon their problems but instead placing the cares and concerns of others before their own. The class literature articulated that: "something happens to create an opening, an invitation that may come in many forms: an experience that suggests we are not who were though we were, feeling homesick for a place we don't recall being before or an experience of an alternative universe in our consciousness" (Atchley, 2009, p. 64). Therefore people that have converted to Christianity may perceive that this physical plane is not their long–term residence and that it is a temporary destination and our permanent home is residing with God in heaven for all eternity. I believe
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