I opened my eyes and darkness surrounded me. I could hear the rain falling like tiny bombs on our car and felt frigid cold air brushing my face. Something soft, like a pillow, was below my right ribs. Am I dying? Where am I? My head was filled with questions. I could see black leather car seats and the smell of the leather made me dizzy. .
I was in a but there was something wrong with gravity. A powerful force was pulling me to the right. Are we tilted? Have we been flipped over? Am I upside-down? My memory kicked into gear and started to replay what had just happened. .
I woke up around 7:00 in the morning which was unusual for me on weekends. It was my first time going snowboarding, so I had a bag of instant noodles for breakfast and put on all my gear. My friend, Will, and I grabbed our snowboards and headed downstairs to wait for our ride. A silver Toyota RV4 drove recklessly into the driveway of our house and stopped. The front window rolled down, Guohao and Sam were sitting in the front of the car waving at us excitingly. We chatted a little and discussed which route was the best to take and where we'd stop for gas. When our travel plans were in place, we headed for the mountains.
The sun was shining and the ski resort had just the right amount of snow. Everything was going so smoothly. We had lunch and skied the trails all afternoon. Then, the temperature dropped and a mixture of snow and sleet started to fall. We were done skiing, so we decided to drive home. On our way back, everyone was tired, including Guohao. We has a long ride back to Beacon Hill, Seattle. Will and I were sitting in the back of the car and Sam and Guahao were in the front. Sam, who knows Guohao the most best, told us that when Guohao is tired, he gets grumpy and tries to rush everything. This made me nervous, because withoiut snow tires or chains on our vehicle and with his need to drive over the speed-limit, Guohao could easily lose control on the icy roads.
As a result, at that time, the most important thing in my life was just studying, and this had made me lose any interests in making friends. ... For my first two years of life in the secondary school, when I was twelve years old, I met some friends. They changed my life. ... So I tried to find another school with my parents. ... From that day on, I began to treat him as my best friend. ...
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My life has changed for the better since I moved to America. I implemented into my life that created amazing, compounding change, and completely shifted the direction and energy of my life. That has totally changed my life, we left everything behind us. ... After I am done with the test results I literally told my result, everyone I know, to all of my family, my friends, that was a huge step to make my dreams real and I made it real. ... That was the worst day of my life. ...
I was all alone and I had to walk in and make friends with people I have never seen or heard about before. ... That was the longest fourteen hours of my entire life, but as soon as we flew over Israel, everyone's mood changed. ... I do not know if it was the beauty of the sunrise, the prayers, or the bond I felt with my group, but something on top of that mountain changed me. ... When I first arrived, I thought I had to change myself to try and impress and make friends with the rest of my group. ... I will always remember that summer as the summer that changed my life. ...
My goal became to write an essay that didn't focus on the death or loss but on the change and growth that took place. ... She had an endless energy for life, and love for my two brothers and me, and I have tried to be the kind of person that she was. ... We were always going places, visiting friends, just learning, and there was never a dull moment. ... Over seven years ago, my mother died after a long battle with melanoma. ... I like to think that my life, and all that I do, is part of a tribute to my mother's legacy, and that I have inherited some of her "joyous and boundless e...
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