On her seventeenth birthday, Mackenzie Gunzelmann was given a Land Rover Discovery as her first car. She lived in Colorado at the time, and this car blew all of her safety, versatile, technology, and stylish standards she had out of the water. Gunzelmann's father was in in the army up until this year, which resulted in their family having to move around a lot. She has lived in Colorado, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and two cities of Texas, all of which she has souvenirs from in her car. "When I was younger, I hated how my dad was in the military because we had to move so much. On the bright side, it helped me discover my love for travel and see new places," Gunzelmann said. Gunzelmann keeps one of her father's old military jackets in the back of her car. "Whenever I would miss him, I would put on his jacket and imagine he was with me, so the jacket provides me with a sense of safety and comfort," Gunzelmann said. "Plus, it is extremely warm and useful f...
Settled in after a long day, I finally got the chance to lay down and relax. I shut out the sound of the TV downstairs as my eyes began to slowly close, my exhaustion taking over. My mind takes me back to third grade. Mrs. Grance’s class was generally a good class, but there were definitely some bad days consisting of the kids not getting along or the teacher being way too intense for third graders to handle. In second grade, one of my closer friends was named Atticus, who now is a freshman at Bowie too. Being young, we were still very childish, so messing with each other was an every day occurrence. Sometimes we took our play a little too far, but I never minded, it was all fun and games. One day, we were completing an assignment that required teacher approval along the way, which meant that people were walking to and from their seats to our teacher a lot. For some reason, Atticus was laying down and working on the “class carpet” at the front of the room, so when I would go up to ...
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