Is A Picture Really Worth 1,000 Words

What I see in the picture is a women and a child. You can also see a person that is walking in the background. That person is wearing a black suit and carrying a black suit case. The woman is dressed in an army suit with her combat boots and her camouflage book bag, which she wears proudly.  I also see a little girl which is wearing a white and pink stripped shirt.  They seem to be in a bone colored airport as if the women has just come back from serving the country. What the little girl and women are doing in the picture, is hugging. So I would lead me to conclude that the little girl and the women have a relation. This relation would be of a mother and a daughter.  The lady has blonde hair, which is braided, and her daughter has brown hair. The lady seems to be the one who has returned from war and has just been reunited with her daughter.

What I think is happening, is that the woman is being reunited with her daughter. I think that she has just gotten off of her plane and the first thing she wants to see is her daughter. Everything that she has been through is now in the past and she is living in the present she is living her moment right now. Since she is reunited with someone that she loves she falls to her knees in the joy of being with her daughter. Her expression is so touching. You can actually feel the vibes from the expression she has on her face. But I believe that what she feels is something I would you would have to be in her position to feel.  I believe the little girl must also be happy to finally see her family after so much time apart from each other. The mom must have thought she wasn’t going to make it. I think she thought this because she seems so touched by the fact that she is back with her daughter. She must have seen many terrible things when she was at war.  She must be thinking that everything is now OK and that she has nothing to worry about. She must also be thinking about being a survivor after a lengthy time period in war. The only thing she has to worry about is her daughter and watching her daughter grow up.  Everything must be falling into place after such a long time away from the place she calls home. A long time away from those which she loves. A long time away from the people those who love her.  Being happy for finally being reunited with her daughter seems to be the best thing that has happened to her in that period of time.

What I think is going to happen, is that she is going to go back to her normal life. She doesn’t seem to have much on her mind it just seems like everything she has done has been for her daughter. I think she will view everything differently and she will be grateful for everything she has unlike the people she might have met while at war. She might have witnessed people dying and people being taken from their families. she might have left as a women that had courage to serve the country but she came back as a new person with new out looks on life and she must have came back a greater and better mother. She could have witnessed many horrible and terrible things she would never want to happen in her lifetime.  I think she will try to catch up on what she has missed in the time period she was gone and she will be grateful for everything she has at this point. I think this because I heard war is no laughing matter. People die in war everyday and she was one of the few that survived and she must be grateful and happy that she is alive and with her family. I can imagine being in a place where you have to be in fear every second of your day and sleeping in such an environment.  From that environment coming into an environment where there everything is at peace and you can sleep in tranquility I would also be happy.  She must be very happy even to see the people she hates. The worries she will have after returning home is being with her child. So her future is her child.  Something else she could do is going back to war. She could volunteer to go back to war.  She must be hoping that what she did at war helped. It helped in the way that it helped stop the war and helped make peace.  She can live her life as an average everyday person.  I think the lady in the picture might have even flashed back to the events she lived through. She could have been in the position of death or the position of gun point. Everything in her life could have changed and she could be tired of the way everything is in the other countries. She might want to never let this happen to the country we call home so she could return to war. She could think of everything she went through and the present becomes the past. If she ever went back to war I think she would have another emotional event like the one pictured. She must have met many people from all over the country who are united and ready to serve the nation no matter the risk of dying. She must have noticed all the love and unity that every one demonstrated that she wanted to keep her life in something that would help bring peace and love to the other country just like the love we had for our country. Serving the country and returning must have been her fairy tale ending.

My Destination

“Lemur Island, Madagascar my destination for my vacation. I never thought that I would have a chance to visit such an exotic place.” “Come on Julie, we’re going to miss the plane if we don’t get on right now.” “Ok I’m just going to finish   saying good bye to my mom.” “Well mom I hope you won’t miss me when I’m gone, and I will call you everyday” “have a safe trip, I love you.” I boarded the plane and before I knew it we were in the air. “Hey Julie, aren’t you scared of heights.” “Yes, I am; but I’m trying to stay calm.” “Ok, but aren’t you scared that the plane might just fall out the sky and we will crash land in a weird place.” “Don’t say that!” “Ok then lets just relax until we get there.” About 10 to 11 hours had gone by when the pilot came on the intercom and said “ we will soon be landing in Buenos Aires ,Argentina” “ what?! I thought you said this plane was going to Madagascar. Caroline!! What number flight is this?” “The flight number is 32. Why?” “Why! This is the wrong plane. I told you that the flight number was 22” “I’m sorry.” “Ok now we are in Buenos Aries Argentina. I have never been to Argentina; it seems like a good vacation destination.” “So you’re not mad?” no Caroline I’m not mad. I just want to enjoy this vacation I have worked hard for.” “So are we going to stay here or are we going to get on another plane to Madagascar?” “We are going to stay here.” “This is going to be a fun trip.” The plane landed and we got off; I was so happy to be on land again, I just wanted to kiss the floor but that would have been weird. So first thing we had to do was find a place to stay. It took me about an hour to find a place to stay. Since that was done I decided to go around and take a look at the place.

 It was very hot it felt like 90 degrees. I wanted to enjoy my time here and that was what I was going to do even though I hate the heat and well I was going to have fun. So I started to wonder off into the streets of Argentina and I saw these beautiful colorful buildings and houses. Everything here was so different from everything back at the U.S. it was like going into a completely different environment. I noticed that everything was so breathe taking and I wanted to take a picture to remember this trip. I remembered that Caroline had my camera so I turned around to ask her to take a picture. When I noticed she was no longer there and I was lost. I lost my best friend and myself in Argentina what was I going to do. I decided to ask people for directions but I didn’t even remember the name of the street that I was on. This trip had just gone from bad to worse. It then started to rain what a horrible first day. 

This trip didn’t seem like a vacation. It hasn’t even been a day and everything went down hill. I kept walking and came across these tall buildings; they kind of reminded me of the towers in New York. These towers are like skyscrapers, they seemed to reach the sky. The congress hall and the main town is like changing the architectural view, everything is in a different construction perception. It’s like stepping back to the time of the royal people. Everything appears to be castles and very important. All of these beautiful sights and I’m stuck looking for Caroline and trying to find out where I am at. I just wanted to go home at this point; I was wet, tired, and lost. I came across this bakery it seemed like I had seen it before. Since I wanted to dry off I decided to go in there and buy something to eat. I saw this girl that seemed to be wearing the same thing as Caroline but I went over to her and that wasn’t her.

 So I sat down and drank some hot coffee with a croissant. This little bakery, with windows for walls, is very open to the public so you could see everyone that passed by.  This lady was walking by with a bunch of bags in her hand and she looked at me and smiled. That was when I noticed that she was Caroline. I ran outside and hugged her. I was so worried I had lost her forever. “Where were u Caroline? I was worried I wasn’t going to find you.” “I went shopping, I saw this really cute outfit and I just had to buy it. I went back to the hotel and I didn’t find you so I went for a walk.” “You know where the hotel is!?” “Yes I do, why?” “Thank gosh. Lets go to the hotel I’m tired and I want to go change my clothes.” “Ok” this trip was now getting back on track. The next few days were great and I was grateful that everything happened. It made me come to the realization that the beauties of these places are amazing and you don’t need a camera to capture them. The beauty of this place will make an impact that will be stored in your memories forever. Who would have thought Argentina was going to be my destination?                

A Life In The Dark

"Bad things happen to everyone. Something worse than the other. Suffering through this cold every night and having to walk around in the dark. Everything seemed to be at its worst." this is all I could think of as the hurricane just began. I was mistaken the hurricane was just starting and everything was about to get much worse. "Brush your teeth and go to sleep." my dad told us. "Everything will be ok but if something actually happens just be ready. Go to the master bedroom and rest there I’ll wake you up if anything happens and if we need to evacuate" "ok I will take my brother and my sister to the bedroom and hopefully they get some rest" to my surprise they were fast asleep in a few minutes. Unlike me it took me awhile to fall asleep. As I laid there in the dark all I could hear were things crashing into the house and all the branches falling from the trees as if they were raindrops. You could hear the trees as they snapped like twigs. Who would have thought that such things were going to happen? As I laid there in the dark I just wondered if this was happening here, I wonder if this was nothing compared to what other people were living through. I just stared at the ceiling wondering and as I watched the room get darker and darker and darker until everything was pitch black.

Next thing I realized was waking up to my mom and dad talking in the living room. The hurricane had lightened up and it was time to go and see the damages the hurricane had committed. We drove around the neighborhood since we had no electricity at the house and no electricity meant there was no heat or light or entertainment. Where ever we drove there was a tree that was blocking the road and many things had been destroyed, everything was closed. The town appeared to be a ghost town; it was empty, quiet, and lifeless. I had never seen the town like this. There was nothing we could do for the day except wait in the house and see if the power came back on. It started to get dark and we still didn’t have any power. So I went upstairs to see what my cousin was doing. It was very bright in the area my cousin was at; he had almost ten candles illuminating the 2^nd floor. They were sitting around the table gambling their money. So I decided to join the game. In the end I won three times the money I started with. The next few day we continued playing cards but with out money this time. We got bored of the game by the 5^th day, so we went out to buy a new card game we ended up playing that for another 4 days.

Every day that passed by we had to heat water up to take hot showers. We needed to charge our phones in the car. I didn’t have service on my phone which was the worst. It was the worst because everyone was trying to contact us and when they couldn’t reach us they started thinking something bad had happened. When the signal started to get at least one or two bars I sat next to a window in the attic to make sure I had reception. Everything was hard work for nine days. Nothing seemed to get better. At least I got to spend time with my family. Everyday felt like hard work and everything seemed to be more difficult. On the ninth day I fell asleep.

 Then on the tenth day we got the power back at the house. It was 4 o’clock in the morning when the lights turned on. We were so happy we were going to have hot showers, a warm house, light, and food that weren’t going to spoil because the refrigerator was working once more. Who would have thought that we depended so much on technology? Everything we used in our everyday life we took for granted and we didn’t know how much we loved something until it was gone; but this experience brought our family closer together.