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June 21, 2010, 10:33 am
There’s a recent Saturday I will never forget. It was my last opportunity to take an overnight at home, because the next weekend would be a closed weekend due to final exams. Of course, I decided to go home, but I wasn’t alone. My two best friends, Carly and Gadea, accompanied me for a wild night we never had intended on.
Upon getting in the car and driving to my beachside residence, Carly, Gadea and I had no definite plans for that night. None of the ideas we were throwing around seemed that fun or exciting. It was [ ...continue reading ]
May 12, 2010, 1:12 pm
Saying goodbye is one of the hardest things a person can do, even if it’s just for a little while. For a teenage girl to be leaving her best friend for a whopping three and a half weeks is never easy. My best friend, Gadea, goes to boarding school with me and lives in Madrid, Spain, when she’s not at school. I only see her during the school year, and after this year, she will return to Spain to finish the rest of her high school career there. Everyday spent with her now is precious. This is why [ ...continue reading ]
April 30, 2010, 1:37 pm
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.” —Dorothea Lange
Everyone wishes she or he could turn back time, revisit the good memories and erase the bad. Even though this is not possible, pictures are the closest thing we have to it. When you look at a picture, it opens a flood of memories from that moment, and they are forever captured. Photography, one of my greatest passions, has assisted me in capturing and sharing some of my best and worst memories. In the rare event I don’t have my camera, I rely [ ...continue reading ]
April 29, 2010, 1:38 pm
For years, BlackBerrys have had known uses for business purposes only: Mainly for colleagues to e-mail one another, keep their schedule organized and, of course, to make phone calls. The BlackBerry was and still is ideal for any serious businessperson, such as my mother and father, but it now has become the phone to have among teens.
When you make a new friend or catch up with an old one, they might ask you, “Oh, what’s your number?” Today that phrase is frequently replaced with “Oh, you have a BlackBerry! What’s your PIN?” A PIN is assigned with [ ...continue reading ]
March 3, 2010, 5:55 pm
At 7:25 every night I say goodbye to my best friend: my BlackBerry. I slide my phone into the box labeled with my last name in the common room and trudge down the long hallway to my room. At 7:30, my prefect’s voice echoes loudly through the dorm: “Study hall’s in, girls!!” Great.
Now for the worst part. My Internet shuts off. I am stuck sitting uncomfortably at a wooden desk for two hours. Unable to text, Facebook, IM, or video chat until 9:30, when the Internet is back and all is as it should be.
Cruel and [ ...continue reading ]
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