When I think back on the first eighteen years of my life, few moments stand out more than four weeks in the summer of 2010. I was blessed with the opportunity of a lifetime as a volunteer at a special needs foster home in China. The foster home in which I volunteered is named for […]
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I hear the sounds of laughter and singing as I walk into the choir room. Seeing me, the students stop their chatter, move into their assigned spots, and stand at attention, waiting for rehearsal to begin. Sitting at the piano with a warm smile, I start to play some simple exercises to warm up their […]
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A Fur Coat, An Exotic Pet, and Expensive Ketchup By: Emily Guin No musically inclined person can deny that the lyrics are clever and the beat is catchy. In fact, it is for these reasons that the song “If I Had $1,000,000,” by Canadian pop band Barenaked Ladies, topped music charts in the early 1990s. […]
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Despite my Japanese nationality and origin, I have been studying English ever since I was three. I was born in an obscure little town in southern Japan to a family in which everyone had graduated from a Japanese school. However, by the time I became aware of my surroundings and situation, I was already at […]
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In my wallet, I carry a coin. My fingers have dulled the polish and discoloration spreads from the center in spirals, evidence of the moments I have spent lost in memories. “Arms Acres,” declares the front. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, […]
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The smell of frying pierogi, tomato soup, avocadoes, and blueberry pie reached my nose. My mom is telling my sister to do her homework, telling me how she liked what I just played on the piano, and talking to her sister in Austria, all at the same time. Just an ordinary day of my childhood. […]
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Every day I wake up is a second chance… I was drained from the lifestyle I led. Daily tasks turned into an agonizing grind of day to day burdens; the walls of life were closing on my soul. I did a number of things I am not proud of and they still haunt me like […]
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Upon first arriving in high school I was very shy, not knowing anyone at my new school, except one of my old teachers who had transferred there two years earlier. I had left my small close knit suburban middle school friends to go to a completely different school in the inner city. There were hundreds […]
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