Waiting for My Rocket to Come

How could he even suggest that? I could not even leave for a weekend to go to my mother’s house. Danny’s attitudes, complaining, impatience, rage and lies were breaking me down. I was not treated lovingly. If he actually spent money on a gift it was something that he wanted. He bought presents for me that he wanted for himself. Danny objectified me, his claims to love me were crude gestures of sexual impulse. My lack of interest was one more excuse for his tantrums. I wanted affection but he told me that I needed to explain “cuddling” to him. Aghast, I told him to get some relationship books from the library. Telling someone explicitly how to touch me, what to give me for gifts, what romantic gestures were killed any shred of “love.” Nothing would feel genuine if he could not be thoughtful of his own accord, if I had to script such…

Have you ever been on a road trip and then everything falls apart? I’m talking screaming siblings, hungry family, and most of all feeling uncomfortable the whole drive. Well, this is exactly what happened to my family on our 2016 road trip to California. Not to mention we had everything planned. Every place, cost, time, and snack. What could have possibly gone wrong? For as far back as I can remember, every other summer my family has taken a long journey to Southern California to visit…

“Amber Kowalski from Illinois, please report to NASA headquarters through teleportation, I repeat, Amber Kowalski from Illinois, please report to NASA headquarters through teleportation, thank you.” That was the message that would forever change my life. Everybody knew what would happen if NASA called you to their headquarters. You would get put in the “waiting room”. The “waiting room” is a top secret area located in the headquarters of NASA space center. NASA secretly chooses two people from…

entirety of the hemisphere was bright and vivid. This was a perfect night, it seemed, for a rocket launch. Standing on the bridge, I gazed over at the still water far below, mesmerized by its reflections, as the rocket towered above every structure on the island ahead. The chatter of friends and strangers alike filled the air as spectators braced for the moment they had been waiting for. And yet, not a single car filled the street. “I guess this was so…

darkness waiting. I was running over my plan in my head for the millionth time. Wondering if it would work. The time was slowly going down. Little did I know my life would never be the same… Before that it was January 2017 Trump had just been elected president. The wall was being constructed. He had gotten Mexico to pay for it by nuclear threats. The wall was 100ft tall and 10 feet wide on a 10 feet deep solid concrete based here was bared wire with 30,000 volts running through it covering the…

also a story that change lives and also because the incident tend to happen in the sports that I also play. The incident happened on December 9 1977 a date I think that after reading this book won't be forgotten and will always be remembered by a lot of basketball players and fans around the world. It was a rivalry game between the Los Angeles Lakers against the Houston Rocket and it was between Kermit Washington a Los Angeles player who punched Rudy Tomjanovich who was a Houston…

Clock ticking, teacher talking, as you sit behind your desk tapping your pencil waiting for class to end. For some of us in the vast world the last thing we want to do is walk sheets. I myself fall in to this group. This is why I get involved with activities such as science, Boy scouts and mechanics. All of these programs and hobbies keep me moving and Teach me things that will help me in engineering Field when I grow up. " The natural desire of good man is knowledge." Leonardo DA vinci, ever…

the area so I went on with my day as if nothing had happen. Later that night I woke up to an uneasy feeling that something bad had happen but I just tried to go back to bed. I tossed and turned and I could not go to sleep so I went down to get some water when I heard my parents talking about something strange. “We don’t even know what this object is.” Well we can’t be to carful we don’t know what or who sent this her.” “You should go check on nick.” I quickly ran up the stairs…

Nate pointed out, “hey is that the president of NASA?” I said, “Yeah that’s him alright.” He came up to the podium and started speaking. “On behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration we would like to pick seven pilots to go to Mars in nine months.” “Here are the names we have Kamiron Taylor, Cooper Armstrong, Kody Little, Will Siver, Lucas Missall, Tyson Bently, and Nathan Preece.” They were all shocked. “Please come up to the stage.” We got up and went to the stage. “Give…

Taller Been” by Ray Bradbury we learn that wanting something desperately can make you act differently than you're accustomed to. These actions can be either negatively or positively. These stories have many similarities and differences. One theme that both stories have in common is to never stop believing because dreams do come true. In the story All Summer in a Day, the characters act negatively because they were chasing something they never experienced. The author uses descriptive language to…