Friday, September 20, 2013

From Homeless to High School Graduate

This story is about a girl named Zairia Benjamin who was living a simple life until that all turned around one day. This happened one day when Zairia  and her mom were coming  home and they saw that she had a eviction notice on their door the notice said that Zairia's mom hasn't paid her rent, but Zairia had proof that her mom paid for her rent so they evicted them anyway. Zairia and her mom took a taxi to her grandmother's apartment which was in the Bronx. Her grandmother welcomed them, but the apartment was too small for Zairia, her mother, and her brother. So they all went to go stay in the system's Emergency Assistance Unit (EAU). Zairia says "It was horrible. There was a whole bunch of people sleeping on the floor". They gave them blankets to sleep on her mother didn't sleep she watched them go to sleep cause if you all went to sleep they would steal your stuff.

Monday, September 16, 2013

A Big Bug

This story is about a boy named Gregor Samsa who had a bad dream and when he woke up from that bad dream he saw that he had changed. Gregor had a big belly, round, and hard. He had little legs that would wave and twitch every time he would move. Then he had realized that he had turned into a giant bug. Gregor thought that this was strange so he closed his eyes and opened them back up, but when he opened them back up he knew that it wasn't a dream. When he tried to get out of bed he tried his hardest to kove but, he couldn't get out. Then he noticed the clock it was nine o' clock he was two ours late for work. Then all of a sudden he heard a knock on his door it was his mother Mrs. Samsa she told Gregor that he was late but, the problem was that Gregor could not get out of bed.

I Was the Victim of a Drunk Driver

 This story is about a man, Press Naraviz and his girlfriend, Cheryl who was dead in a serious car accident one night because of a drunk driver. This incident took Albuquerque, New Mexico in April 19, 1996 on a a normal Saturday night. Press and Cheryl were a date they were dating for about a few months , but they were heading home and they stopped at a red light when a cop car pulled up to them and Cheryl was joking on how the "should better be careful". Then out of know where a huge truck slammed into them which was going about 60 mph and slammed right into his car and pushed them onto the intersection.