Thursday, August 12, 2010
08/12/2010 Where Am I
In Persepolis Marjane is sent to Austria for a better life, once there the original plans for where she would be staying changed unexpectedly causing her to reside in a nunary. Recall a time when have you ended up somewhere completely crazy and unexpected instead of the place you planned/thought you would be at? Explain your feelings once in this place. Was it a good or bad experience? If you could do it again would you, if so is there anything you would change?
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A few weeks ago my friends and I were visiting some friends from out of town. While we were driving home, I made a wrong turned and we wound up in a not so great neighborhood and it was at night. My friends and I were pretty scared during the time that we were in this neighborhood because on more than one occasion at a red light, homeless people would come knocking on our car windows asking for money. By the time we got out of the neighborhood and back on track to come home we just laughed because at first it was scary but then we realized that it was actually quite comical. If I could do it again I would probably recharge my GPS and not listen to my friends directions so no, if I could do it again I wouldn't.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was fifteen years I wanted to go live with my father so badly. I wanted to go stay with because first my mother was crazy and just because I thought of how it would be if I moved in with him. I thought him and I would connect more it would be a much better environment. Once I final moved in with him that was so not the case. Our relationship only worst he was coming home all hours of the night. In my mind I just thought of this perfect place with my father but it was the total opposite when I got there.
ReplyDeleteOne time I and my dad went to Newark New Jersey for some business he had to attend to once arriving there in to New York I wanted to go off on my own and we were going to meet back up at the hotel. So I was my whole objective was to go to Manhattan to do some shopping in china streets of Chinatown, mind you that was my objective I’m really familiar with taking trains and buses so I figured I’d be ok, No that wasn’t the case I ended up in the uptown part of Harlem not too far from the Bronx the feeling I felt was stupidity but I managed to get to my destination after like 4 hours but it was an experience.
ReplyDeleteWell I often end up places I don't expect to be. It's unfortunate but I do make the best of it. In fact I usually end up having a great time. It was my 20th birthday and I was going out with my friends. After just a few drinks and some company my friends and I decided to go to the gas station just on the corner so that I could get a pack of cigarettes.This was also one of the only gas stations to sell my cigarettes at the time. Once I got back in the car I lit one of my smokes. all was well so far. I then realized that we weren't going back to my friends place. It was too loud in the car for me to try and talk to my friends. but apparently when I was making my purchase someone invited us to a party and we were following another car. As we arrived at this "party" I could see that it was huge. It was this old cabin looking house with a huge yard and woods all around it. Their were bands playing and I had the most incredible time there. There were frisbees in the air, music in my ears, and nature all around me. It was amazing.
ReplyDeleteIt was 4th of July this year, me and my boys heard that the girls in our clique were having a little party. We planned to go to our boy Zack’s house to hang out before we went to this party, then make it to the party around 10:00 pm then leave around 1:00 am the next morning. We got to Zack’s house just as we planned and started goofing off playing hoops, making draino bombs, and just talking. When we arrived at the party there were a lot more people than we expected but hey the more the merrier so we didn’t really care. After the party one of my friends I came with was drunk out of his mind, my other guy was good and sober so was I. The people that gave us a ride there were now hammered and were in no type of condition to drive us home. We were stranded, the only option we had was to walk 10 miles home mind you our friend is drunk. So we decided to walk till we figure something out. We walked 6 miles to a local Taco Bell closer to our homes. As we were sitting at this Taco Bell stranded I started to think, how I got to this point. Eventually we had to call my friends mom to pick us up. I was very tired and ready to lie down at home, it was a very good experience and if I got the chance to do it again I would but I would only change the fact that I lost one of my favorite hoodies that night.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was eight years old my aunt promised me that when I was thirteen years old she would take me on a trip to New York City. Ever since I was little I wanted to live there and be a Broadway dancer. Well the time quickly came and I was thirteen. The only problem was no New York trip. My aunt got pregnant. When I went into high school I was always too busy with dance, poms, and school to even plan a trip. After awhile, the whole trip was forgotten by my aunt and even me. A warm spring morning of senior year I was in my room just surfing the web. My mom walked in my room with a suitcase. I asked her, “What are you doing with that?” So nonchalantly she stated,''oh nothing, we’re just going to New York tomorrow for about a week.” I was in a state of confusion and shock. My mom and my aunt planned this trip without me even knowing about it! I was ecstatic! New York was even more amazing then I imagined. I was able to see two Broadway plays while I was up there, Jersey Boys and Chicago. On top of that, I took two classes at the Broadway Dance Center! I never wanted to leave. Standing in the middle of Time Square was breath taking. After college that is somewhere I definitely want to move!
ReplyDeleteThis question is funny because It brings back to the first day of the bridge program, and I was lost going to my first class, and I use to live downtown Chicago. My math class was right behind the 600 Michigan street building and I walked all the way down toward the Cultural Art Center. I felt so stupid for that rest of the morning. Getting turnaround is not a good feeling at all.
ReplyDeleteI recall a time when my friend took me to his Youth Group for Christians and he asked me several time before to go with him. First of all, I’m not religious at all and I’m a Atheist and he would always try to shove the whole “God” thing down my throat and try and make me believe that there was some “God” out there for me to believe in. So I had finally decided to go with him to this Youth Group thing. I wasn’t prepared for what I was getting into it was just sudden because he had called me about thirty minutes before we really left and I had just thought I need to get this done and over with and get him off my back about going to this place. He had picked me up with some other people I knew and we had gone to this church. As soon as I walked in I seen the new English teacher there from my school and I forgot that my friend said he was their pastor. So it had started and they started off with a “game” where everyone laded down on their back and took their shoes and socks off, which in first of very gross. Then they put a sheet over your body and people would go past your feet and try to figure out who you were. I was thinking to myself the whole time “What does this have to do with religion in anyway?” Then after that so called “game” they went into song and I looked at my friend and he knew every single word to this song and was raising his hands with his eyes closed and I was not looking at the person I really knew. After all of that it was finally over, but not the last thing my friend wanted to do. We had gone up to the English teacher and he looked at me and said “Well Mr Markovich. How did you like this new experience?” I didn’t want to say what I wanted to so I had responded with an “Eh, it was alright.” Then he had asked me “So what religion are you?” I had responded with “Well….I really don’t know.” In my head I really did know and it wasn’t this religion. After that talk with him it was finally over and didn’t see any point of me going to this place because it just showed me how much more pointless it was for me to go and waste my time there. It didn’t change my life in anyway and I regret going to that everything he brings it up. I think the only thing I would have changed is to never pick up that phone call and play Call of Duty for the rest of the night.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was fourteen years old I remember going camping with my godfather and my god sisters and we set the tent for the cold chilling night to come. We finish and we go on this walk and got farther into it and there were two roads that diverged in the woods. I and one of my sisters had told the road less travel by from what we had heard. We approach this pond filled with duck and fishes and dirty stuff and we got scary and my compass broke on me. Insistently we hear owls, crickets, dogs, and other animals. We tried to follow the foot steps back but somehow some got erased. I backed up into a tree and someone grabs me and I screamed. I told my sister to help but I couldn’t find her and next thing you know the person who had me dragged me back to my tent with my eyes closed and all alone it was my sisters and godfather playing a joke on me. I realize to next to that again and I was glad to be back where I was stationed. Next time I need some back ups.
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in New York I got lost so much, the city is so busy and crowded. One thing I learned in New York is that if you don’t know where you are going, have a map and never be alone. I was by myself on a train heading to Cooney Island, and then I didn’t recognize my surroundings as I looked out the window. I walked up to a man and asked where we are, he said we’re heading towards Brooklyn, so I thought everything was alright. I fell asleep on the train for at least an hour, then woke up and realized I wasn’t in New York anymore. I ended up in New Jersey after hours based by, I was so afraid so I panicked. After I saw I was lost I instantly called a friend for help, my friend met me in New Jersey to pick me up. After my horrible experience, I learned to never trust someone you don’t know and know where you are going at all time. If I knew back then I was going to get lost, I would’ve brought a friend with me and make sure I knew my directions by bringing a map.
ReplyDeleteIt was summer vacation and my family was planning on going to our family reunion in Hammond, Indiana. I was so excited to go because there was going to be all the family members I never seen before. Once we got there I was in for a shock all the adults were sitting there talking. My cousins were all in the corner and didn't look like they wanted to be bothered. Everyone was in there own little clique. I told my mom I want to go home this is not fun. She told me in a few more hours we would leave go do something. So it was up to me to fix that whole scenario. I walked over to my cousin Victor who is a dj to play some music I knew everyone would dance to. So my little cousin and I got in the middle and started dancing. That made everyone want to join in. When it was time to go I didn't want to leave. It turned out to be a fun day which I thought it was going to be a bore. Now because of that day I love going to the family reunions and I look forward to them every year.
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