During my first week in Haiti, I met a precious little girl named Rosaline. We rode into this little village and about 50 vibrant kids chased after our tap-tap and started cheering, "The whities are here, the whities are here!" It was quite the scene that unfolded. We sat in the back of this pick-up truck and witnessed how riled up people could get just by our presence. I was laughing with them, smiling at them, and waving to them. Their happiness and joy was infectious. But then I saw th

Gliding effortlessly like a falcon soaring amidst the clouds, the knobby tires of my motorcycle spat up rocks, and dust from the cool dirt road beneath me. The hot sun beating down upon my back, like flames kissing the ceiling of a hearth. The dry desert air was so thick it could be separated with the motion of a beckoning arm, and I was alive...for the first time.
Growing up in a middle-class suburban neighborhood with one sibling, a golden retriever, and a white picket fence, I was liv

I lost what home is, somewhere along the way. Some look at my life half a world away with envy and I can see why, but it's not like that. When I was a freshman I stood on top of a mountain half way across the world in rolling Brazilian hills that climbed into the holes in sky. I was fifteen with a death grip on a navy colored United States passport stamped with a tourist visa. I trained with the legends of the sport and from them, the game took a whole new meaning. I saw the beauty and elegan

" This world may be a risky journey but throughout all, it's still the essence of your faith that matters"

The time I entered my highschool studies, I can weather that it will be a bit hard for me to cope up with the inevitable changes. Adaptability needs to peak up and response must be necessary. My physique vibed that it'll be a disrupting volcano in my soul. A lava that will pour out worries and plum moments.

I heard the song "Win" by Brian McKnight from my teacher's sp

I placed both my feet heavily on the platform of the train station, letting my exhaustion and my confusion settle me into this single spot as I desperately searched to my left and my right for some familiar sign that I had reached my destination. The train began a slow and deliberate pace past me, gradually picking up more speed as it pulled out of the station. Its disappearance made me realize I was the only passenger to get off at this stop, despite the train’s over crowdedness. I stood alon

My personal adoration for music grows solely from its methods of escapism. I found a love for music at the tender age of thirteen whilst simultaneously developing an anxiety disorder. The outside world becoming a scarce part of my life as I grew fearful of the increasingly frequent panic attacks I was suffering. I began listening to music from the sheer boredom of being confined by the same four walls every day; however I did not realise that one day I would discover lyrics so powerful, they co

Sea kayaking is the closest I’ve ever come to flying. I used to think of flying in the commonplace way, requiring wings and open air and altitude and clouds. Airplanes and hang-gliding and parasailing desperately try to mimic the elegance of birds, with their hollow bones and their weightless feathers. I suppose if we’re being literal, pilots and paratroopers are a whole lot closer to flying than I’ve ever been in my boat.
But when I really start to think about what flying means, when peo

“Once in every millennium an individual is born who rises above all and does the impossible.”


We all have dreams. Some of them are so ridiculous that we shy away from even thinking about them. Very few amongst us are brave enough to go and live that dream. Few amongst us are brave enough to rise above all and go do the ridiculous, just because it makes them happy. One such extraordinary individual was Christopher Mccandless (Alexander Supertramp). Into the Wild

I'm currently a sophomore in Texas A&M International University. I am so close to start the Communication Disorder Program and pursue my major. I currently joined this organizatin called the AIS, Association of International Studies. Basically what it is well aside from being an international university, this organization is for exchange/international students that come from all over the world and what we do; we help them with school related stuff, help them experience a GREAT time in Texas for

Confidence is something that is so, so hard to build, yet easy to have shattered. I spent my whole high school career building the confidence to make that split-second, risky decision that saved a goal and even won a couple games. I relied on that confidence; it was the key to my game, my style of play. Being a rather short goalkeeper (5'6ish) I have to be aggressive or I get beat... a lot. So without confidence, aggressiveness goes out the window as well.

Throughout my junior and se