Thursday, January 31, 2013

K2. Incredible Journey.

Burdick_1.gifThis picture could remind me of really anything. The first thing I notice is a grandson and his grandfather under the moon looking over at New York City from Ellis Island. After being separate from the rest of their family the two of them were very fortunate to make it over to New York City. Now this boy is still too young to know what is really going on. As you can see the two arrived with hundreds more and they are gazing over at New York over the Hudson River, and flashing their lantern at the water to look at the boats sailing pass the Statue of Liberty. As they appear to gaze over the calm waters grandpa starts telling his grandson stories about the history of the "King City." They first thing grandpa mentions to his grandson is the reasoning behind the Statue of Liberty. As the grandson starts to really notices all the buildings in the city he starts to throwout various questions. Of course the first two buildings he spotted out were the World Trade Center. Grandpa told him "they are all business offices for world trade for the United States, it is one of the most important buildings in America." Also one of the biggest buildings is the Empire State Building, which as well is all business offices. The little boy told his grandfather "Maybe you can look for a job there?!" His grandpa was excited to here the enthusiasm from his grandson because they are both aware that he is in serious need of a job to keep them under a safe shelter. Unfortunately the little boy is going to have no other choice to but work slightly in a factory for about 3 hours of a day and about 5 days a week. Both the grandson and grandfather are hoping to see the rest of their family arrive to New York City to live a better lifestyle in more of a safe environment.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

K1. College Trip with Lauren

This image kind of reminds me of the movie Up. Well one day my best friend Lauren and I decided to get an apartment together. We lived In Miami and attended Miami University. We just wanted to be normal teenagers and live the college life. Maybe living the college life wasn’t so pleasant after all. Moving to Miami away from all our family may have not of been the best idea. I mean we moved at least 24 hours away from our immediate family, so if anything were to happen we would be out of luck; all we had were each other. Our first day of school at the campus was coming up about 2 weeks or so. Since we were new to the area we wanted to tour not only the campus all little bit but the city as well. While touring we decided to take a quick lunch break at Panera Bread. Something seemed a little suspicious when we both spotted this adult male who appeared to be in his mid 20’s. He has short dirty blonde hair and baby blue eyes. He was a little bit below average height. A couple days have passed and we were still seeing this guy around everywhere we have went. We were both kind of getting a little freaked out. And of course knowing our luck he was in our first class on the first day of our new school. He kept giving Lauren and I weird looks and weird faces. Once again just a tad bit creepy. Lauren would always try to tell me that this guy was up to no good. As we left the school we were walking in the parking lot and we passed him getting into his car, at least now we know what kind of car he drives. HE drove a convertible mustang. When we arrived home I noticed a little red button inside of a box that says do not press only in case of emergency. Therefore I never touched it , except for this one time. It was late at night around 11:30 I was studying for my big test the next day until I noticed something a little strange happening outside. I kept hearing a car door slam shut. I darted up the stairs to wake up Lauren. I was screaming and panting in all nervousness. I was having trouble explaining to her, I could only seem to single her key words, like car slamming door outside continuously. After calming me down we finally went downstairs together to see what was going on outside. “IT’S HIM!” Lauren shouted. “The guy from lunch and school. He drives the convertible mustang.” I thought to myself, what is he doing at our house? He stepped foot out of his car one last time and slowly started to walk up the driveway. That’s when we started to panic bad! “What should we do? I asked lauren. Lauren told me to call the police, but by time they got here they wouldn’t be any help to us. For some reason the “emergency button” clicked into my head. I ran to the front door where it was opened the box and slammed on the big red button as hard as I could. We felt a sudden movement we looked out the window and we weren’t on the green grass anymore.. Its like our house took off like a spaceship. All we saw was the guy starring up at us and run back and speed out of our driveway like a crazy lunatic because the police showed up and they started to chase him down the street.