The only time I’ve seen my father cry was in the backseat of a Taxi cab in Dongguan, China. My father is the kind of man who leaves for month long business trips only to return to his office rather than his home. He’s the man with a firm grin on his face and a stubborn mind that won’t take no for an answer. He’s taught me courage, leadership, responsibility, and confidence. My dad is the one who engraved the motto that “everything is possible, the impossible just takes a little longer time,” into my brain...
My dad used to tell me I had never truly seen the stars, but I didn't believe him. I thought that I saw the stars every night before I closed the blinds covering my window. I thought that when I looked up into "my" Northern Virginia suburban sky, I was seeing all that was out there. I thought that I understood everything there was to understand about the world at the mere age of sixteen. As it turns out, there's more to the sky than I could ever see from there...
The sounds of Finding Nemo, the constant ticking of the clock, the click-clack of the teacher’s keyboard – all slowly lulled the students to sleep. Chairs began creaking when the first people finally gave in to the temptations of sleep. Some students were diligently working on their homework; others were improving their social skills through text messages and whispered conversations...
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