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January 26, 2011, 10:19 am
I miss the days in the summer when my two younger siblings and I would set up lemonade stands at the end of our driveway. We could each make a few bucks selling icy cups of lemonade for fifty cents and two Oreo cookies for a quarter. After a few hours of hard work, we’d eventually got bored and call it quits for the day. As we walked through the door I would make sure to check the countertop where my mom would put our mail. It was the most exciting feeling when I found a bright green envelope [ ...continue reading ]
January 12, 2011, 4:45 pm
Do you stick to your New Year's resolutions? Image taken from CreativeCommons.org
When so much is happening at once, you should take time to step back to look at your life how it used to be, what it has become and what you want it to look like. It’s like clicking “refresh” or “clean up” on your computer desktop. When a page on the Internet is not loading properly, usually you will hit the “Refresh” button to restart and hope for a more promising result. The “clean up” button places all of the icons on my desktop in [ ...continue reading ]
January 5, 2011, 4:18 pm
The Cinderella Society, by Kay Cassidy, is a book about a 16-year-old girl named Jess Parker. Jess starts out as an outsider—the “nerdy” girl. She is extremely insecure about herself, which causes the school’s most popular, but cruel, girl to pick at every weakness she has. Everything changes when Jess is invited to join a secret sisterhood called the Cinderella Society. This sisterhood encourages its members to be extraordinary and to overcome their personal insecurities, including doubts about their personality, appearance and what they have to offer the world. The girls learn how to become leaders, fighting the wickedness [ ...continue reading ]
August 12, 2010, 1:51 pm
You know that quote used at every graduation or concluding ceremony, something like “It is not about the destination, it is rather the journey that makes an experience…”? Well, this applies very well to the prom process. The actual prom is not as involved and fun as the preparation.
The whole journey begins about three months in advance. You can’t wait until only a few weeks before the event to buy your prom dress, because all of the good ones will be taken, and you may end up wearing the same outfit as someone else (the horror!). [ ...continue reading ]
June 30, 2010, 1:09 pm
There is nothing better than spending a hot summer day with your best friends. Driving in one of our cars all together with the windows rolled down, our hair blowing, our freshly sun-kissed skin glowing and a classic summer song like What I Got by Sublime playing full blast. Even the smell of sunscreen mixed with everything else summer makes me happy. It’s an unexplainable feeling that makes you think it’s too good to be true!
We laugh at each other when we try to sing as loud as we can to the tunes pumping on our iPods. [ ...continue reading ]
June 23, 2010, 10:16 am
Sounds of shattering glass, crashes, fans screaming, sirens and police commands. It was certainly the most frightening night of my life.
When I heard the deejay on hip-hop radio station 92.3 announce a free Drake and Hanson concert at the South Street Seaport in NYC, I immediately started planning what I thought would be a fantastic night full of music and free fun. Since I found out about this concert literally the day before the event, almost none of my friends could make it. I arranged to meet my sister and brother and our friend Tom at the [ ...continue reading ]
May 25, 2010, 9:46 am
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Any girl would love a $1,000 shopping spree, however I think it meant a bit more to three girls from Haiti: Chantal Mori (17), Sarah Maurice (8) and Margarette Pierre (17). These girls, who lost limbs in the earthquake in Haiti, were brought to New York by Wyclef Jean’s organization Yéle Haiti to be fitted for prosthetic limbs. Kmart teamed up with Yéle Haiti and donated $1,000 to each girl to buy anything they wanted, from dresses to digital cameras to shampoo.
Attending this event was very meaningful and exciting to me. Watching Sarah have [ ...continue reading ]
May 13, 2010, 8:37 am
Today I went to my very first conference! It was called What Teens Want Marketing Conference. As we walked in, I was handed a guest pass and a gift bag full of many different items, including a cute notepad and pen, a Pop Star magazine, a $10 prepaid card to Stardoll and some other stuff, too. Being at a conference about, well, me automatically made me feel quite special. We walked into the big hall where the conference was being held—it reminded me of a room where a bar mitzvah might be hosted. We sat down at a [ ...continue reading ]
April 18, 2010, 10:16 am
As a senior in high school, I have been trying to find the right college for a year and a half. That’s almost 548 days of stress about college essays, interviews, campus visits, making the right impressions, SAT scores, applications, keeping grades up, doing as many extracurricular activities as possible, having a social life and somehow finding “me time.” After spending such a huge amount of time on this whole process, I have one month to decide where I would like to go next fall. Thirty days. It seems a little unfair that I spend 548 days applying to [ ...continue reading ]
April 13, 2010, 4:51 pm
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My Facebook inbox is constantly full of messages sent to my whole family by my dad. Messages consist of “Congratulations to Reuben [my little brother] on his band’s first gig [Vapor Friday]. They were great!” or “Happy Birthday Cousin Jordan!” We discuss family vacations, Thanksgiving plans and any other news. This is the only reason I am friends with my dad on Facebook, hence the limited profile. [ ...continue reading ]
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