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Friday, April 8, 2016

snapshot 6..Caitlin williams

      Over one year ago I discovered what love is. I discovered what it felt like to be scared for someone else and their life. Of course I have loved many people before this moment but this time it was different. This time I felt helpless, lost, terrified, overjoyed, ecstatic, and I was just overcome with the most insane amount of emotions. I didn't know it was possible to feel this much. I discovered what love really was on January 3rd, 2015. My nephew had been born.

     Growing up I never wanted to have kids. The thought of having kids made me sick. I didn't understand who in their right mind would ever want to have kids. I think my parents having my younger brother and sister is what made me feel like this. I envied them. I almost hated them. I was 6, almost 7, when my brother Dane was born and thus I no longer was the baby of our family. My sister and I were sidekicks, best friends, and the closest sisters you could ever meet; Other than conjoined twins. I felt like the birth of my brother ruined that. We were no longer alone. Later on I became a babysitter for him 24/7. At least it felt like it. Then came along my young sister, Cailea. By then I knew I would no longer have life because I was stuck babysitting for the next 10 or so years. Basically I dealt with younger kids while I was still a kid and this took away from possible fun I would have been able to have if they weren't born.

    I was sitting in my room by myself. I had just gotten off work so I had just changed into comfy shorts and an old t-shirt. My room had an old bunk bed in it that I use to share with my younger sister and I was awkwardly sitting on the bottom bunk when I got a call from my older sister. I was the first person my older sister, Chelsea, told she was pregnant to. She was terrified and had no idea what she was going to do or how she was ever going to tell my parents. She called me and said, "Caitlin you have to swear to me you are going to keep your mouth shut because no one knows what I'm about to tell you." and I proceeded to say, "Let me guess, you're pregnant?" she responded by saying, "How did you know?!" I was not prepared for her to respond this way. I was almost joking when I asked her. I told her I didn't know and that I was just guessing and she just didn't know what to do or who to call. I instantly got happy. I don't know why I was so happy for my sister who was clearly terrified but I just was.

     Later on when it was time to tell my mom Chelsea had come over to the house and was sitting in my room with me when I finally got up and got my mom. I told her we needed to have a talk and that Chelsea needed to tell her something. My mom walked into my room and I said, "Close the door." she had a smug grin on her face and said, "What's going on?" I looked at Chelsea and started to chuckle a little bit. My mom still puzzled said, "What? What is it? Tell me." Chelsea looked at my mom funny and my mom said, "Oh my gosh, Chelsea are you pregnant?" Chelsea and I were laughing. I finally spoke up and said yes. My mom couldn't understand why I was so happy for my sister. I couldn't understand either.

     Then it was time. We were at the hospital and Chelsea had been in labor since 6am. It was now around 4pm when they told us they were going to break her water and start pushing. I wasn't in the room because there was only two people allowed in. My sisters best friend, Vicky, was there too. We had only been sitting in the waiting room about 5 minutes before we decided to go downstairs and get some fresh air. It had been raining and the air was extremely wet. As soon as we got to the car my dad called me and asked where I went. Then he said we needed to get back upstairs ASAP because Chelsea was already done. 15 minutes later I met the most beautiful little boy named Cayson. He was the most perfect thing I had ever seen.

     I have always been there for my sister and Cayson ever since. He is my pride and joy and there is nothing else above him. I can't get enough of his ornery ways. He won't sit still for more than 5 minutes and that's if you're lucky but I wouldn't trade him for anything in this world. I am so thankful to feel a love like this.

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Thursday, April 7, 2016

Snapshot 6 by Lucas

One of the things I treasure most is the friendships I have made throughout life during school. I went to the same school my entire life from Kindergarten up until graduation. Throughout those years, I met a lot of great people and best of all, I met my best friends during those years. I met my best friend in Kindergarten when we were in the same class, and we are still best friends to this day. In 2nd grade one of my good friends now, moved to my school. Then in 3rd grade another one did as well. We were not friends right away, but over the years as we grew closer together from having the same classes and being on the same sports teams we became great friends. We all eventually began to do everything together and became like brothers as we spent so much of our time together. Then finally, all those years later as high school was coming to an end, a few weeks before graduation I was hanging out with some of my friends. We were all standing in the kitchen when Jed, who is younger than us, started getting really upset and sad at the fact that all of us were going to graduate. He began to start to cry, causing another friend of ours to start crying too. As we were teenage boys, naturally we started making fun of them crying over something that dumb (even though they weren't exactly sober). However, that is when it really struck me that maybe we were all going to drift apart and no longer see each other everyday like they were saying, even though I always told myself "No, that won't be us. We will never end up like that". Nearly a year later I have realized, "yes...that actually is us". As we have all been busy doing our own things like college, and getting jobs, we have slowly started drifting apart and that is when I realized that Jed was right the night he was crying. In my opinion we need to hold on to the friendships we made throughout our childhood and teenage years because the people we surrounded ourselves with during our most impressionable years and spent most of our time with are a big part of the reason that we are the people we are now and we should not let go of that.

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Snapshot 6 by Matt Stock

     I think one of the greatest things about being a human is the will to help others. Will Smith said "If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making others lives better." I am holding on to my will to help others. I never want to let that go because I feel like that why I was put here on this Earth is to inspire and help people. Here is the story on how I am holding on to helping others.
     I started at Tri-Rivers Career Center in my sophomore year of high school. I had no idea what I wanted to do. One day as I sat in the lunch room like any other day. A kid across the room fell to the ground and began seizing. I didn't see a teacher running but a student running that was in the Public Safety class. The student gave medical aide until the fire department showed up. Later I went to the student and I had some questions " Why did you help that kid?" He responded with the best answer anyone could ever say. "Its what we do. I don't expect any reward or parse. I just love helping people and that's why I put on this uniform everyday." I was so motivated by what he said the next day I knew what I wanted. I applied to the Public Safety program.
     I went in my junior year wanting to be a police officer. I didn't think I was smart enough to be in anything medical. I worked really hard but just could not fall in love with police work. Matt Wells the EMT teacher pulled me into his office "Stock what do you want to do?" I sat and ponder on the questions. "Mr. Wells I have no idea." Then Mr. Wells wrote my name down for the EMT class. I was so scared to start. My senior year came around and the class started. It was very hard and I didn't like it. Now if you ask an EMT when they fell in love with the job they will be able to tell you. Mine was when I jumped on the medic at Marion City Fire department. My first run I had the Medic said "Stock this is your run tell me what you are going to do and do it". After that it stuck! I was stuck to EMS like glue.
      Now I work at Medcare Ambulance in Marion. I still get a big grin on my face and I turn those lights and sirens. I spend a long time with my patients and making them comfortable. I feel like everyone should get a chance to help people because you never know what you'll love.

Monday, April 4, 2016

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