First off is a Descriptive Essay that I wrote about Nicaragua. Enjoy!!
The long plane ride is ending and you can't wait to land. It doesn't hit you at forst, bit you know the sight is going to be like something you've never seen before. As you walk off the plane and into the terminal, you beging to feel excitement. This is a whole new scene. The air is so hot when you walk outside. You feel as if you're going to dehydrate because the heat is so intense. When you get on the bus and ride down the street, you see people everywhere. You want to sleep because you feel your eyes dropping, but the sight of Managua amazes you! The houses are lines side by side with barbed wire all around them. The people are staring at you because of the lightness of your skin. You begin to feel a little startled when you've realized that this is nothing like your hometown. No matter how much you want to deny it, you're extremely excited.
On your forst night there, you feel nervous about meeting the peopl you'll be working with for the next four days. your nerves suddenly dissapear when you meet the children. You see their smiling faces and know that they are hapy. While working with the children, you don't notice that it is 113* F in the shade until you wipe the sweat off your face and it soaks your clothes. Not only do you not notice the heat, but you also don't notice the bugs. There are flies and mosquitoes all around. You don't notice anythign but the smiles on the children's faces.
While you're walking around in the
barrios, a Nicaraguan neighborhood, doing surveys, you pass people making food for their families. The smell of the fresh good makes you hungry for lunch. The sun is schorching you and the coolness of your water is refreshing.
You become so accustomed to the heat, weather, and bugs that when it's time to go back to America, you don't want to go home. Yu want to take all the children with you because they have found a special place in your heart. You have learned to love them. As the music in the background is playing, "I hear the children crying from the lands. Is there anyone who will hold them by the hand", you begin to thank God for this experience and hope that you can go back someday.
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Secondly, we went and saw Cyrano de Bergerac at BJU. This is what I wrote for extra credit. (I got 20 bonus points!!)
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano was the main character who is in love with his cousin, Roxane. He makes himself believe that no woman could ever love him because of his "enlarged" nose. When Roxane tells him about her love for another man, Christian, Cyrano, telling himself that he can never win his true love, decides to help Christian win her heart. In the meantime, Cyrano's enemy, de Guiche, "falls in love" with Roxane. He plans to marry her. One night while Roxane is on her balcony, Christian comes to see her and without Cyrano's help, he cannot woo her. She thinks that the man she loves does not love her back. Cyrano decides to help, but Christian wasn't quite understanding what Cyrano was saying. Cyrano put on Christian's cloak and hat and spoke to Roxane. Roxane, not knowing it was Cyrano talking, becomes convinced that Christian really does love ehr. That night Roxane and Christian are married. De Guiche comes to Roxan's house and when he finds that she has married Christian, he decides to send Christian and Cyrano to the front lines of war. Roxane is devastated. While the war is going on, she pays a visit to the front lines so if her husband dies, she will too. Cyrano has not yet told Christian that he (Christian) has written to Roxane everyday. Christian finds out that Cyrano is deeply in love with Roxane and tries to convince him to tell her. He refuses to and while Cyrano and Roxane ar etalking, Christian has gone to fight and ends up getting shot. While everyone is weeping over his tragety, Roxane sees the last letter from her husband. Roxane doesn't know that Cyrano wrote the letters. The last letter was covered with Christian's blood and Cyrano's tears. During the next fourteen or fifteen years, Cyrano would visit Roxane in the convent where she is living. He tells her all the news about what is happening in the town and about the people. Even now, she still does not know of his love for her. On Cyrano's final visit, he does not tell her about his wound and that this will be their final visit. He asks Roxane if he could read the last letter that Christian wrote to her and she gave it to him. He started to read the letter and then Roxane noticed that he was reading in the dark. He kept quoting the letter and she then realized that it is Cyrano that she fell in love with, not Christian. He still denies it. Le Bret, Cyrano's friend, came to the convent and tells Roxane that Cyrano is killing himself by being there. he then reveals his head wound. He dies after giving his final salute to the white plume in his hat, a symbol of his integrity.
I personally love the play. My favorite part is when Roxane finds out that Cyrano loves her. I think it is so romantic. My least favorite part is when Cyrano doed. (I actually cried at the end.) I love how thongs played out. You could see Cyrano's love for Roxane in almost every scene. I love the fact that things don't always happen the way we think they will. Like, Cyrano thought that Roxane would never fall for him, but in the end she did. He never gave her the chance to love him. We should learn from Cyrano's mistakes about love. God has a plan for us and we shouldn't try to change it or run from the truth by blaming something about ourselves.
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Lastly, I wanted to post my Sonnet (every line has to have 10 syllables) and my Prologue (has to have a rhyme scheme of *aabbccddeeff..... and so on) that I wrote.
Sonnet 1 (A Time to Choose)
It happened when they least expected it.
Two people thinking they would never fall
In love. They two just sat there for a bit
For no words could be said about it all.
And when they thought what would their parents think
Because they were so young and in love too.
It all hapened so fast they could not blink.
What would you do if this happened to you?
Sometimes it seems that this is far away
But do not fool yourself to think you might
Have time to waste your life from day to day,
The hour has come to wake and see the light.
It's time to make a choice about your life.
Don't let yourself become so full of strife.
Prologue
After completing four years of college,
She steps out into the world with lots of knowledge.
She's very successful in her life,
but very soon she'll become a wife.
She marries the man that's dear to her,
He loves her much, of that she's sure.
The big day comes when they much yield
Both of themselves to the mission field.
They're ready to go, there's no doubt about it,
And the country they're going to just seems to fit.
For many years they are out in service,
Sharing the love of Christ is their purpose.
After they come home, they'll go right back,
Because part of them missing, they know what they lack.
Serving God makes them happy
And full of joy, but they are not snappy.
They love their life, there's no other place
To continue to serve and run their race.
Hope y'all enjoy!!!!
