...“I encourage you to get lost sometime, it’s good for you” - Joshua Montesinos The leaves had freshly fallen to the ground and my jacket still smelt like smoke from the bonfire that was burning the night before. Already autumn was proving to be one of my favorite seasons. I love the cool fresh air and the forests transforming into a canvas of reds and oranges. However my favorite part of fall is our annual trip to my cousins farm house. The house and property have been in their family for over one hundred and seventy years.Their land consists of four fields, three ponds, several caves, and a river that flows through it. This year in particular we had finally found enough in us to camp out inside one of the caves on the western edge of the...
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..."We need to go" my mother yells while struggling to pack our bags. Fear struck over me instantly. Never had I ever seen my mother so scared. Her eyes lit up with terror, her hands shook and her voice trembled when she spoke. She was acting as if the world was going to end. I ran upstairs to get my little brothers, not even questioning why. All I knew is something bad was happening and we needed to leave. We jumped into the car and drove as fast as we could. When I finally had time to breath I asked her what was going on. Without saying a word she handed me a tablet which was turned on to the news channel. The news woman said there was a huge asteroid hurtling straight for the earth. The asteroI watched the tree's and bushes passing by knowing...
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...they came. I was just ten years old when my life ended. The sun had set on my small village of Digba in Central Africa.The air was crisp and chilly, a normal July night in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, that was until we heard the engines roaring into my little village, like a lion who had just taken its prey. My brother, Azul, was the first to wake. The gunfire startled me awake next. The screams of my people were too strong. The Men in Red were too strong. “Did you hear that, Azul?” I asked still in a haze of...
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...In November20, 2012 Rafhas' streets were crowed. People were yelling every single second. Each person wanted to finish his/her journey fast on that boring day. I was standing in Star Box trying to change my mood by listening to some classic music and repeating after the singer. I was extremely bored because I spent that days doing nothing. Usually, I would see elderly men and women in the street, but on that day there were not there. Suddenly, someone came toward me. After that moment, all my life has changed. He is an old man with a large mustache and dense beard. He has a white skin, and his eyes were avoiding tears. He was walking toward the chair with his small and thin body. I felt bad, and I could not focus on the song, which I was listing. Strangely, I did not know why I felt in that way with him, and why I saw him as a different person. "Did I do anything wrong? Did I bother him in anyway?" I was asking myself. I could not wait to know why he was looking at me in that case. ...
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...quite and peaceful. I was asleep in my bed with pillows scattered across my bed and my blankets wrapped around me like a burrito and my dog is curled into a ball right next to me. The sun slowly rose and as the light slowly marched towards my room and hear in the distance something else. It was like my whole room was rumbling and my dog stands straight up and sprints to the door and sits there waiting for the person approaching the door. I woke up to the sound of the person approaching and then I see the shadow. Through the crack of the door on the bottom I see the shadow, the door slowly creaks open and the light from outside of my room rushes in like it was a search and rescue mission. Then I saw the belligerent shadow in its true form, my mom! This is my hero’s journey. This is how I conquered my sleepiness and got...
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...ghettos. I thought my life was limited at this time but then they told us that we were to pack up only essential stuff and get on trains to Auschwitz concentration camps. We were allowed to keep very limited stuff and all of our valuables including money was taken from us. This was the start of a long journey. At Auschwitz we were to be seperated women to the right men to the left. This was the last time I saw my mother and sister. Me and my father were then sent into the death camp Auschwitz. This is a horrible place where people everyday are sent to the crematory to be burned to death. We were asked our age which to survive you must be 18-40 years old. I lied I was 18 and my dad said he was 40. Labor camp Buna was rough. It was hard back...
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...Fate We hurriedly made our way through the overflowing sea of people. The chaos of it all is quite extraordinary, really. Never before had there been such excitement over a luxury ship such as this one. I look ahead as my sisters rush onto the so called, unsinkable ship. However, I have always been a bit of a pessimist, so I’m not one hundred percent on board with the whole idea of being on the ship’s first voyage, mind the pun. My sisters, however, are the complete opposite. Always ready for an adventure, even when it may end in tragedy. Now i’m not saying it’s going to sink or anything, because everyone else sure doesn’t think so… but how can anyone be so sure? Nobody knew our mother was sick. Not until she sent me a letter saying she had...
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...By freighting times I mean for myself personally I dislike being forced to go up in front of the class and present a presentation or paper. I am extremely shy around basically everyone except my normal everyday friends. When I step in front of the room to fortitude, my face gets bright red, my hands start to shake, I can barely talk and when I do I mess up on the words. I always have to be doing something with my hands to distract me, like crack my knuckles, which are my usually go to. I also hate finals, because at the end of the term or semester every class has there finals on the last day, which means you, have to study a whole ton on Thursday night and it is a struggle. The second thing I can connect with is Rachel being sick. I connect with her because last year I watched this movie that became very popular that is called the fault in our stars. It connects because one of the main characters in the movie...
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...down. Ever since Alese’s sister died, she has not let me in. Without my guidance, she makes rash decisions and poor choices. I watch with sad eyes as she buries herself deeper into a rut of depression. The only way I can reach Alese is through her dreams. Each night I make my way into at least one dream, and try to get her to let me back in. Progress has been made, as I appear in almost all of her dreams now, but it still is not enough. Alese will not be able to move on from her sister’s death until I am with her at all times. My last...
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...be a good boy and get up. You have plenty of chores to do!” Alois said with a strangely cheery voice and a firm grab of Edmund’s shoulder. Edmund froze for a split second, then he fell limp, no longer tossing and turning. “Edmund dear!” Klara screamed running over to him. Alois looked around and held his hands at his shoulders. All of the children ran towards their mother, trying to see what had happened to their brother. With a brisk movement, Klara placed two fingers on Edmund’s neck. Her hands fell to her sides, her mouth agape. “What is all the fuss about!” Alois shouted at Klara. She sat, still and quiet. A single tear fell from her eye, then two, then three. A loud sob came from her small composure and a scream escaped her mouth. “My son is dead!” She Stormed at him. “This is all your fault. If you wouldn’t have made him go to school the day after that other little boy got the measles, this would not have happened.” She yelped with tears in her eyes. “Don’t blame the death of our son on me, woman!” He hollered back with a slap to her face. She caressed her cheek and gave him an evil...
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...moment her mom noticed a bump on her stomach.Elizabeth's mom was really worried so she immediately took her, left the park and went to a tall building with a big red cross. Elizabeth's heart couldn't stop pounding. Once they got to the hospital they waited for about an hour,”Elizabeth!” a doctor called. Elizabeth's heart started pounding even faster than before. After doing some tests the doctor sighed and sadly said,”Elizabeth, we found something that is not good, the results came back and confirmed it to be cancer.” Elizabeth's heart sank deep to the bottom, like anchor falls into the sea. Elizabeth's mom started crying so much, it was unstoppable. Elizabeth was wondering what was going to happen next,” Am I going to die, am I going to lose my hair, am I going to be able to go to school?”she thought to herself. She was worried what people were going to say about her and to her. When she got back to her family’s house, they were so worried about her, everyone just wanted to hug her. Her mom thought that they should go home immediately to see her family doctor, so Elizabeth had to say goodbye to everyone, pack up her stuff and felt depressed that she was leaving. On her way to the airport, she heard a door slam “BAMMMM”, she jumped up breathing heavily and sat up. She woke up, just like that, touched her hair, touched her face, touched her stomach, felt her bed, realizing it was all a bad dream. ...
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...destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.” ― Anaïs Nin “I remember it like it was yesterday, the sun is shining brightly, the sand beneath my toes, the fresh, salty smell of the ocean as the waves crashed in. “Sofia! I have a huge surprise for you that I think you’ll like.” “What is it Matt?” “You’re coming with me to help me do a photoshoot tomorrow to a little girl’s 7th birthday party. I told my boss I could use an extra hand, so he gave me another boarding ticket. We’ll be gone for three days only. Are you still going?” “Hmm, let me check my schedule first...” I joked. “Look’s like I’m available tomorrow!” “Sofia!! Walk faster before the ship boards without us!” “Geez. I’m coming, I’m coming!” That is when everything changed. I woke up in the middle of nowhere stranded on an island with nothing, but my clothes. I tried to recall what happened last; nothing. I couldn’t remember what happened after I jumped out of the ship, I didn’t know where I was or if I...
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...excited to go on a boat with my whole family.When we got there we headed on the white and blue boat but when we got out far waves started knocking us back and forth like crazy.I was so happy that my family let me do this. We were all in the car ready to go on the boat when I asked “are we almost there”, to my Mom. She said “yes,”right when we pulled up. When we finale arrived, I bursted out of the silver car like there was something chasing me. Then I wandered around to see where the boat was, then when I finally found it my whole family were already waiting for me.After that, I happily raced to go get the orange and blue tobb with my dad and about ten minutes later we were back.Then we were off we raced towards the big red lighthouse as the “light...
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...My Baseball Hero's Journey: It all started with my first season of travel baseball and my entire team was playing up a year, none of us were competitive or give any effort but that's not what was wrong with it, we had lost every game yet we were still having fun playing the game we love, listing to country music, hitting and playing baseball with all of our friends. Then that's when I got my call to adventure, well I have to start with how travel baseball works, Saturday is seeding and Sunday is play till elimination, we had played this team the day before on Saturday and lost. The problem was they cheated their way there because they were supposed to be playing with 12U, not 10U but keep in mind we were nine at the time and they had also broken...
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...Standing in the way back with my head down and eyes closed, I am the only one not crying. The sobs from everyone around me flooded my ears. I raise my head to a painful sight, I wish I hadn't seen, a casket. Inside of it lays a body, a cold lifeless body. A person that once felt emotions and laughed and cried. It was Zach's body. He's gone before our real relationship could even start. "Mom, I'm going upstairs to play my game." I yelled over my shoulder while running up my staircase. I then leap onto my bed and grab my controller to turn on the console. I place my headset over my head and begin speaking into the mic near my mouth. About Five minutes in, I notice a new gamer has joined our camp. While playing the game me and him start to speak. I got to know his name and where he lived, but not the direct...
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