So this supposedly is the closest I could come to getting this web site to look like me. I saw the post on metafilter and thought I would give it a shot. What do you guys think?
Old Writings
So I was doing some “Spring Cleaning” of my computer and came across a folder of all my school articles from high school from the years 2000-2004. So I had some good times reading these so I though I would post them here, please excuse the grammar mistakes. This one was written on September 4th 2002 for English 11 CP.
Personal Statement Essay
I chose to write my essay on somebody who has impacted my life. The person that I chose to write about was my grandfather on my mother’s side, Grandpa Walker. He has been a major influence on my life over the past sixteen years.
I can remember when I spent most of my summers that at his house in Princeton. While I was at his house in the summer time I remember him teaching me how to tie flies for fly fishing and going over the tedious process with me without losing any patience. I also remember him making me lunch which knowing my grandpa was exciting trying to guess what the secret ingredient was. I also remember him bringing me over to the fire department to show me the life flight helicopter that had just landed there. I also remember watching him as he worked with making wood products and fixing and moving around everything. I also remember him taking me fishing and teaching me how to fish. Then one day when I was about six years old he had a heart attack. I was young back then and I don’t think that I realized what had happened. But now as I look back and really think about what happened I realized what could have gone wrong and then I would have missed. I would have missed the trips that I took with him to Maine to visit his sister, the trip to Cape Cod to visit his brother, the trip to Rhode Island to visit his other sister. I would have also missed spending all the holidays with him and some other weekends I spent with him. Now I watch him doing everything he used to do not slowing down a bit and I realized that even with the pace-maker he has and going through the heart attack that he can still do anything and nothing can stop him not even a heart attack.
How this influenced me is that I know that he can go through anything and come out just as before means that I can do the same. I’ve had to go through a lot less then he has like, not wanting to go to school or not wanting to do my homework or doing something that I didn’t think I could like taking a swimming test or having to talk in front of large groups of people. And I know that everything will be the same and I’ll be ok. This is how one person, my grandpa, has influenced my life.
Theres Hope for the world
A couple of months before I moved into my apartment there was a women who was struck and killed by a drunk driver out side of my apartment and a couple of months before that there was another biker who was killed in almost the same place. As a memorial the families of the victims have left their damaged bikes next to two light posts by the intersections. With the recent snow and the city plowing the snow onto the corner of the sidewalks the bikes had been knocked down. Now here it is 3:10 AM and for some reason I looked out my window that faces the intersection, and you know what I saw? A man or women had pulled over on the opposite side of the road and crossed the road and picked up the bicycles and leaned them up against the poles like they had originally been. Now the bicycles weren’t laying in the road or across the sidewalk just laying down next to the poles, not obstructing anything. I don’t know if they knew the victims or what but I thought that it was a very nice gesture of this person to do that. And it restores faith that there is hope in the world.
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