Thanksgiving...

Waiting for this day to come is a huge thing for millions of people becuase they love to eat and eat all day long and not be able to move for two days. For me personally, I don't really care about eating all day long. I am not the kind of person that just loves to eat all day long. The one thing that I really enjoy about Thanksgiving is being with my family that I don't really get to see all that much.

Example Essay

Being able to say that I am involved with someone is a big thing, to me anyways. My boyfriend, Brendan that I have had for more than 3 years has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. I feel like we have been together since birth and now he is starting to feel like he is part of the family. He was even around before we started dating; we were best friends for 2 years before we started dating. He has been the most loving, comforting, funny person I could ever ask for in any person.

I can’t remember a time while dating that he hasn’t said “I love you, Kim.” Even when I get mad at him for something stupid and I tell him I don’t want to be with him anymore because of his out look on things that we don’t agree on when he leaves my house after that fight he will say “I love you and I am sorry if I have hurt your feelings in anyway.” I don’t know if many men can face the fact that they are wrong and bring themselves to say I am sorry.

When my parents would tell me that I couldn’t make it in life I would go to Brendan to see what he would say and I would always wait to hear the same things that my parents just told me moments ago. This was never the case; he would always tell me that I could do anything I put my heart into. I didn’t know if I wanted to go to college right after high school but Brendan was there to tell me that I could do it if I really wanted to do it and I would be able to go if I wanted to take a year off from school all together.

Often I come across a day that isn’t going to be good. I sometimes feel like I am the bearer of all bad news at times but when I come across those bad days Brendan is there to cheer me up. If I don’t think I can get up and go to school to face a few teachers that don’t seem to like me, Brendan is always telling me that I just need to pretend they aren’t my teachers and talk to them like you would any other person. To me I find that kind of humorous because there have been times where I have done this. I may not think it is funny when he tells me to do it but when I actually do it and then talk to him at the end of the day he is proud of me. He told me that he does this so he can see me smile at the end of the day.

I am just lucky that I have found this person at my young age and that the loving, caring, funny person happens to be the love of my life rather than one of my girl friends. If I am to ever be hurt by anything Brendan is there to pick me back up, put me on my feet and continue to go on with life.

The Search

After researching for a few hours on the internet I decided I had to get some other information that wasn't as boring as reading it on paper. I went back to my high school and I talked to my former teacher and she told me that I had to go talk to her friend Mike. Mike has been a Maine guide for 25 years and he would be my best resource for writing this paper without it being boring. I also went to the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to see if they could tell me anything about how the tests are administered and what was on them.

All of the information that I found on the internet was good stuff but it wasn't what I really needed. It was cut and dry, I wanted something that had personal experiences from Maine guides. I think that talking to Mike Dougherty was a good idea and if I never went back to my high school I don't think I would have a good paper.

The Future

Now that I have done all the research that I have had to do to write this paper I think I am on the right track to finding something new for me to do in my lifetime. I have learned so much about becomming a Maine guide and it is really interesting me. It is like a tunnel and I have been sucked into it. The beautiful woods around me is so fascinating and I don't think I could find any better way to enjoy it.

In the near future I am plan on becomming a guide. I think it would be something that is really going to be worth my while. I have a friend that is going to open a camp for adults and he wants some people to go with him through the process and become guides with him. So this spring I am going to be attending classes with him and a few other friends and become a guide.

Writing this paper has made me realize there is more to life than getting up everyday and driving to work and doing the same old shit from day to day.

Process Essay

Learning how to get ahead in life can be tricky. I had to teach myself all throughout highschool. I loved to be the teachers pet, because if you were you would be awarded with a decent grade. I don't feel that way when you want to become the official teachers assistant. My senior year I decided I wanted to become one of the official "teachers assistant" for my outdoor education class(O.E.). O.E. wasn't a normal class that most students took during their highschool career. It was similiar to a gym class but you didn't have to play the sports that you hated to do, instead we would go camping for a whole weekand, hike, ski and white water canoe. In order to do become a teachers assistant I had to do a lot of unecessary sucking up to the teacher. To become a teachers assistant (T.A.) you have to prove to the teacher that you are willing to accept the responsibilities involved, apply for the position and finally do your best even if you don't get the position.

After I finally decided I wanted to go for it I had to prove to myself and to my teacher that I could take on the responsibility to do it. When questions were asked in class I was the first to respond and when a volunteer was asked for I always raised my hand. I didn't do this because I wanted to be the teachers pet but because I wanted to reach this goal of becomming a T.A. and I actually really enjoyed the stuff we were learning. When we were taught the different strokes we had to use on the river I would often volunteer about getting up on a table in the front of the room and demonstrate the proper way to do whatever was asked for. For example, when we were taught the strokes that we need to know on the river when white water canoeing I would demonsrate how to do them or I would go around the class to help the students that didn't understand. I became a very willing person to learn about everything there was to know about that class.

When applying for this honorable position you probably think that I had to fill out some silly application that only had my name and grades on it, but in reality I had to write an essay of why I would be a good T.A.. This I thought was difficult because I don't like to look at myself and talk about why I am going to be the best at one particular thing. If I do this I feel like I have a big head. I finally got over the fear of having a "big head" and I sat myself down at my computer and wrote this essay. I thought it was pretty good even though I didn't like to write about myself. I had a few of my friends read it and see what they thought about it and they all came back to me with positive results.

I kind of knew that I was going to get this position from the start because my teacher is the one that told me that I would be a great T.A.. There are two teachers that taught the class and they both saw me grow to become a better student. When I first joined the class I was shy and didn't say much. Once I got to know more people in the class I became more outgoing and wanted to volunteer myself for the class activities that we did. I would go on all of the class trips and when we were out on a trip I would be the one to help with getting everything ready for the students and parents that were going to go on the trip.

Just to let you know, so I don't leave you hanging, I did get the position and fulfilled every part of being a good T.A. for one full year. Throughout that year I had the best time of my life and I must say that was the highest point in my high school career. Well there is one thing that I left out, my best friend is the daughter of my former teacher. I didn't have to do as much sucking up as it sounded but I did have to prove to her that I could do it and I did have to apply just like everyone else had to.

Halloween

Boy do I love Halloween. I love to see the little ones all dressed up walking up and down the streets picking up candy. Last night I was on my way home from work and I was very upset, I didn't see any kids on the side roads getting candy, maybe it was because I was in Brewer on my way out to Holden. Most of the kids tend to hit Bangor first and then if we get lucky they come out to Holden. This isn't very likely, we only had four trick-or-treaters, how depressing. I couldn't believe that was it and three of them were too old to be doing it but that is o.k. because they were my neighbors. I guess that when I go out looking for an apartment I am going to think about living in town (Bangor or Brewer) and maybe this will increase my chances of seeing the little ones all dressed up on Halloween.

Picking pumpkins

A few weeks ago I went to my sisters house and she told me that she and her son had gone pumpkin picking the day before. I asked her where she went and she gave me directions, I am not very good with directions...that should have told you everything. As you can figure out I got lost. I was riding in Corinth and driving up and down the wrong roads. I took a right turn just as my sister said and she said it was only 5 seconds away from that turn. Well I drove for 15 minutes and never saw any pumpkins in sight. I went through an intersection and right in front of me there were PUMPKINS! I was so excited. Needless to say I am never going to turst my sister with directions and I will ask someone else before I go with her word.

Classification Essay

Walking into the store and seeing everything in their perfect place I think, "Wow, this is awesome and the smell is wonderful I could stay here all day and smell these things." You are probably thinking it is something rare that we don't see very often or something that is really fascinating. Well in reality it is only a shoe store, I love to look at all of the new shoes well really, it is the smell that I love the most. I am the rare kind of person that you are going to come by once in your life, I love the smell of new sneakers. I have always had a problem when I have to pick out a new pair of shoes because I want to stay in the store and smell them all day. When having to pick out a new pair of sneakers I have to think to myself if I want sneakers, shoes or sandals. Sometimes I don't care about any of this and I will ask an associate to pick out my shoes that they think best fits me.

I know you are probably thinking about what the differences are between all three types of shoes. Well sneakers, they are laced up can be velcro if you are that lazy. Sneakers are mans best friend when you become old, the only reason why I say this is because old people need the best balance a shoe can give. Sneakers are best for you when you are going to be on your feet for a long period of time. I always wear my sneakers when I am going to work, I work at a retail store and I have to be on my feet for numerous hours at a time. The type of store that I am currently employed at isn't the best store you have ever been to, no organization nothing. What can I say, I work at Marden's Surplus and Salvage, some people think it is the best store ever. I hate it due to the fact that I live there. My work shifts vary from day to day, the normal night shift is usually five hours and all of the other days it is eight hours per shift.

Shoes can be anything as long as they aren’t sneakers or sandals. They are what professionals wear to work. You know what I am talking about you know the penny loafers or when pretty women wear the high healed pointy toe shoes. They can be very casual to the extreme opposite. When ever you see a business man all dressed up in a suit more than likely he is going to be wearing shoes, unless he doesn’t care and wants to be comfortable and is wearing sneakers. Shoes are the most professional looking type of footwear that you can purchase. When I attend a special event (i.e. a wedding, funeral or a graduation) I must wear my shoes, they are what usually makes my outfit perfect. As a matter of fact I wear shoes majority of the time. If I wear a nice pair of pants or a skirt and I wear my sneakers with it, it just doesn't look right.

Sandals, boy do I love sandals! They are the best things ever created; well that is when it comes to foot wear. The best time to wear these suckers is right when the weather is getting good, you don’t usually wear them when there is snow on the ground but right after that you can slip them on. When you wear them you can show people who you are, because this shows your character, you can paint your toes, wear toe rings and if you really want to get fancy you could even wear an ANKLET! I do most of that excluding the whole anklet part because it isn't me. I wear a toe ring all year round, so when I take my footwear off at the end of any day I see my beautiful toe ring. I wear my sandals all summer long, even if they aren't the most appropriate kind that goes along with the outfit I am wearing. Sandals come in so many different styles, they can be strappy, slip on or something that resembles a flip flop, there are so many different styles of sandals you can buy. Even though they don’t have much material to them they seem to be the most expensive footwear, I have yet to figure out why this is true.

Out of all three types of footwear that I have described you should now be able to pick the one you prefer the most. Personally I prefer the sandals, I love to show off my feet even though they may not be the most attractive things in the world but hey we all have to take off our shoes and socks sometime. I still think that the best smelling type of footwear that you can possibly buy would have to be the sneaker.

Classification intro #2

The shoe store, what an amazing world. While standing in the middle of the shoe store I get this vision that I have never had before, all I see are the shoes, nothing else. The smell of these wonderful objects just overcomes my senses. As I walk into the isles and see all of the different types of shoes. All of the new shoes surrounding me, I feel like I am on cloud nine. What a wonderful feeling. There are three types of shoes that we all look at in some point in our life this is sneakers, shoes and sandals. I love shoes and I like to think they love me. When walking into a shoe store everyone knows that there is no way you are going to interrupt me before I get my business done.

Classification intro #1

Walking into the store and seeing everything in their perfect place I think, "Wow, this is awesome and the smell is wonderful I could stay here all day and smell these things." You are probably thinking it is something rare that we don't see very often or something that is really fascinating. Well in reality it is only a shoe store, I love to look at all of the new shoes well really, it is the smell that I love the most. I am the rare kind of person that you are going to come by once in your life, I love the smell of new sneakers. I have always had a problem when I have to pick out a new pair of shoes because I want to stay in the store and smell them all day. When having to pick out a new pair of sneakers I have to think to myself if I want sneakers, shoes or sandals. Sometimes I don't care about any of this and I will ask an associate to pick out my shoes that they think best fits me.