Personal Narrative: August 15

It started as typical Tuesday with a couple of court hearings, maybe an arrest, but nothing to exciting. That all changed at dawn.

*disclaimer: bare with me... the next 5 chapters are crap because i wrote them over a year ago...chapter 19 will be the start of some great shit*

Today we are leaving Concord New hampshire. We are very upset because we loved our visit. We were packing up to leave. We walked down to go eat some breakfast. I got toast. After breakfast we went up stairs to get are stuff to leave. When we hopped in the car we looked out the window of the car.

Starting high school can be a little scary, especially when you have no guidance from siblings, like me, being the first one from my family to have an education. But that did not stop me from succeeding, I?ve always been confident and determined. I?m an enthusiastic when it comes to trying new things. Who would have thought I was going to be a good athlete plus a book geek, when in my past years I was just a regular kid. I was pretty excited about joining a club that had a connection with high school, that way I didn?t have to start from zero, I always want to be a step ahead. Fortunately, in summer, a high school coach was recruiting freshmen for running either cross country or track, they both involve running, so I considered it like the same sport with different timing. And this is when it all started. Running

After talking to Angela Figi, i felt finally we were going to have the family i never had and prayed for. The day he was born was amazing and a bit scary. Like most woman

Getting Briana Grace Home In December of 2000 my husband and I were given a picture of a little girl who was in a baby house in Kazakhstan. We knew in a moment that she was our daughter. After some time in prayer we knew that this was the child we had asked God to give us. We started right away with all the paper work and then came the costs. I have to admit we were unprepared for the cost of an overseas adoption, but we put our trust in God and set to work. We worked overtime when we could. We had yard sales, held drawings and I even put out a donation jar at Hanford Christian Supply where I was the manager. We also learned to live on a very tight budget. It took us seven months but we had raised all the money we needed for the fees and travel.

It's been a very busy summer so far. At the end of July, we returned from 23 days in Germany and Scotland.

Week one has passed by quickly! I think this week was very successful and I can say that I have learned many new things. This week has been an experience for me learning things about the business world. I am not a business major so I was not expecting to take these classes. I was assigned them, but have found them very beneficial. As I read through the first couple of chapters I read things I had heard before. This was a good thing that I could put the information with the terms I had heard previously.

My 20time is on running. In sixth grade I tried out for track, hoping I will be fast enough and would make it. But it didn't turn out that way. It was at lunch with all my friends when I checked the track website and didn't see the name, Carly Jakob, on the list. I was so shocked i started bawling my eyes out. After this traumatizing day I made a goal that I will make the track team when i'm in eighth grade. To do this I knew I had to make many drastic changes. I changed my diet to proper eating habits, and learned facts about form and technique that would help me get through the horrifying try outs and right onto the team.

Most people are all grown up when they finally figure out what they want to do with their life. I was 4. I realized what I wanted to be when I attended my very first Rodeo. Even though it was so long ago I can remember that day like it was yesturday. That day got me on the path to my future.

The visit proved that, yes, our life was taking a turn in a different direction. The discovery threw many challenges at me. Telling my parents, the ones who had such high hopes for me, that I was having a baby was perhaps the scariest thing I had ever done. My life was turning upside down and after telling them, things only seemed to get worse. Over the next few weeks, everyone had harsh comments to push me to give up the baby for adoption. It took a lot of prayer and strength but I was never one to quit when I wanted something so eventually everyone realized that their comments were doing nothing to sway me. Now that it was known throughout the family that I was keeping the baby, I was faced with the issue of how I was going to pull off getting everything I needed with the little money I had. Luckily, gifts started to pour in from all my friends and family. On August 20th, I woke up with terrible pains and eventually figured out that I was, in fact, in labor. We arrived at the hospital where I had an experience that was full of pain and complications to the point where I was almost

My mom was actually due on my birthday, which I wasn’t too happy about but it was not the end of the world. We began shopping for baby clothes, seeing ultrasounds, having a baby shower; it was all becoming real. The doctors told her she would be having a caesarian section on December 7th, a day before my birthday. When the day

When my 15-year-old sister called me on the phone from 1300 miles away to tell me that she was pregnant, my whole world came to a standstill. She was crying because she was scared. Scared because she knew our parents would be angry. Scared because she didn’t know how she would finish high school. Scared because she didn’t know if the father of the baby would stick around. Scared because she couldn’t afford a baby. Scared because she knew she would have to stop being a teenager and learn how to be a parent. She wasn’t ready for the responsibilities of parenthood.

No matter what, I’ll always care about you. I want to start off saying that these past couple of days have been really rough for me. I’m sure you have felt the same. I apologize and take responsibility for not speaking to you on Friday; I had way too much going on in my head and I couldn’t look at your name without crying. On Friday I received apologies from Claire and Abbey. Hannah and Leah even apologized that they even had to been apart of the process of me finding out. I have gotten so many different stories from so many different people. For most of the stories I tried really hard to give you the benefit of the doubt, but it was extremely difficult.

I am actually thankful for this, as it had increased my survival chances. The thing is, that nothing special made my birth different from any other. My dad didn’t faint, my mom wasn’t screaming her head off, and we have no family member in the country so the only people there were my parents and my sister--who was waiting outside the room. There were no scary moments or surprising situations. There weren’t any complications or any complication the doctor chose to tell my parents about. The biggest problem was the time my mom was in labor. When my older sister was born, my mom was in labor for 28 hours. Therefore, when my mom’s water broke, she didn’t panic and rush to the hospital. A full day had passed before my parents even decided to actually go. Since my they knew I was coming, my dad had even called the hospital ahead of time to make sure everything was set. In total my mom was in labor for about 36 hours. She describes it as being a very painful experience, but the excitement of a new child had helped her mentally deal with it. Plus she had an epidural, but I like to believe that it was the thought of me that decreased the