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First Crush Our own Araby

started by Peter E. Rowe on 05 Sep 13
  • Peter E. Rowe
    #1 Peter E. Rowe on 05 Sep 13
     
    Similar to the short story Araby by James Joyce, write a paragraph that tells the story of your first crush! Remember effective descriptive writing creates an image for the reader. Describe details that capture that memory.

    "She had bright gray eyes and pale skin" TR

    " She chased me around the playground and we kissed underneath the dinosaur slide." JH

    "My cheeks blushed, I could feel it. KE
  • xiaogang wu
    #3 xiaogang wu on 05 Sep 13
     
    Mr Rowe
    is this homework due tomorrow ? and are we gonna send you paragraph by email or just reply you on the Diigo?
    david wu
  • Ryan Moran
    #6 Ryan Moran on 06 Sep 13
     
    My first crush was when I was 5 years old in kindergarten. Her name was Jenna she had short black hair. I barley remember it but I remember the feeling I got when I was around her was unlike anything I had ever felt before. I got this warm tingling sensation starting at my lower abdomen and working its way up towards my chest. It was a very strong case of butterflies. In first grade she came over my house and we hung out and played for a few hours. She also lived in the same neighborhood as some of my closest friends so I saw her often. For unknown reasons after Elementary School the feelings I used to get around her just went away.
  • Hang Zhao
    #7 Hang Zhao on 08 Sep 13
     
    "Thank you so much! He is a naughty boy, I told him do not make any troubles in school, but...." My mom was talking to Ms.Wei about a stupid thing that I had done: I gave my mom's wedding ring to a girl. I hung my head down, and looked like an innocent. " Its ok, kids are just like that, you know when I was young, I was naughty either." They were laughing, look like they were having fun of it. However, I did not think it was funny, it was romantic and immature love.
    My elementary school was located Nan Chang, China, it is not a big city but the life I had there was unforgettable. My family was poor, so we were live in a small apartment, and I was the only child that my parents had. Therefore, my mother did not let me go to school when I was 6, she thought some big guys would bully me , so I went to school when I was almost 7.
    As my elementary school life began, there were some new words started come into my head. "Like" and "Love", these two words attracted me into a amazing world which I had never been.
    A girl appeared into my head when I was thinking those two words. She had a long black hair, black pretty eyes, and she always had a smile on her face, looked shiny and friendly. She was very good at english, but not good at math. The lucky thing is that I was exactly the best math learner in the class! I helped her on math, and she helped me on English, so we became the best friends.
    " Why are you always laughing? What is funny?" I asked.
    "haha, I am laughing because I am always happy." She laughed again.
    I did not know why, I just felt like in real, she was not that happy than she showed to me.
    "You are lying."
    "What are you talking about?"
    "I do not know, I just feel you are not that happy."
    She silenced and turned her back to me.
    "You can tell me anytime you want, we are friends, I would like to tell you when I am not happy rather than hiding it in my heart. Right? We are friends."
    Suddenly, she turned her body and hugged me. Her head is buried on my chest, I could feel her tears were falling on my shirt.
    "Thank you." She whispered, and I felt there was a cold humid mouth hit my face before she ran away. I stood there for a while, and walked back to home.
    Our relationship did not get any change after that kiss, I did not even know what was that means, because I was not mature enough. However, her birthday was coming soon, I was thinking what gift should I give to her. At that time, I saw my mom's ring,
    "Mom, is that a fake ring? It is not real, right?"
    "It is not real diamond ring, you can play with it." She was cooking at kitchen, and gave me a quick response.
    "Thank you mom." I put the little ring into my pocket, and my heart was jumping agitato.
    After had lunch, I went back to school, and looked around. "Here she is!" I found her very quickly. She was seating on her chair and reading a romantic book.
    "Hey, I got a gift for you, happy birthday!" I took out the ring, and quickly put it on her hand.
    "Thank you." Her face was turning red and her voice was very low. I knew that means she likes it.
    After school, I went back to home, and saw my mom was taking everything from her drawers. "What happened mom?" I walked toward her. She told me she was looking for her wedding ring. Now I understood the ring was very important to her, I was afraid, but I still told her what happened, and who did I give it to. She found teacher, and asked the girl, then got the ring back.
  • Aidan Sperry
    #8 Aidan Sperry on 08 Sep 13
     
    My first kiss. Inside the cool concrete tube on the playground we sat and fantasized about knights and castles. She was a princess, and I breathed fire. But I was a good dragon, not an evil one, and I always saved the day. Her name was Allie. She had short hazel hair that framed her, soft olive skin, piercing green eyes and she was a year older. She was the prettiest girl in kindergarten and everybody wanted to hang out with her, but I always got to be her dragon. We'd run around for hours throwing rocks and rolling in the grass. During nap time I'd always sleep next to her and she'd give me her slice of bread on soup day. On some days we'd fight. And even though according to kindergarten love 101 if a girl is mean to you she likes you, I'd always regret my stupid retaliations. When she moved to first grade I asked my mom if I could skip a year, I told her I didn't like my kindergarten teacher. Allie and I would still play during recess and I still was madly in love with her, or perhaps just the idea, but things were never the same between us when she went to first grade. The butterflies gradually faded away and she became just another friend. When I was expelled from that school in third grade she said she'd never forget me, that things wouldn't be the same; and we parted ways. I saw her at a party my freshman summer for the first time in 5 years. We laughed and reminisced on our kindergarten romance, but even brash and giddy with memories, there was nothing sexual between us. And I awoke the next morning with a clear mind despite the liquor from the night before.
  • Aaron Leffert
    #9 Aaron Leffert on 09 Sep 13
     
    My first crush was on a girl that i've known for about 16 years named esther. We met at the playground in my building and we learned how to do everything together. I remember playing dress up a lot and pretending that we were married and I liked that. We ended up going to the same elementary school. the feelings stayed around but weekend when she became a popular girl. she was just mean and stuff until about 5th grade but that was our last year together and i would never have the jewels to confront her and open my "heart" to her. in reality i liked what who she was, but i did not like her. We kissed a few times but it was so meaningless i have no real emotions towards it today. She is like my Older sister now and we laugh about the old days.
  • nataliaroman
    #10 nataliaroman on 09 Sep 13
     
    My first crush was a boy named Ethan he was blonde and tall for a 5 year old. He was my bestfriend, and so began the my comfortable place in the friendzone. We played together everyday and growing up with boys we had a lot of the same interest, legos and blocks and playing mutant ninja turtle tag had become our habitual past times. He was pretty cool everybody in our class loved him and he also had the best snacks, to say the least I was falling hard. One day a new girl came she was very pretty and she had the same name as the mermaid from the little mermaid 2, Melanie. She was basically perfect. We became fast friends. It was the usual mutant ninja tag time at recess but this time I brought Melanie, I introduced her to Sam and they were inseparable since. As the days passed I got more and more excluded from tag and legos (even melanie wasn't even about that life) she brought her barbies to play in the lego castles and I played by myself a lot. One day Melanie decided to included me in tag and I was pumped I could play with ethan again! She told him I was gonna play with them and he made a face and said that he only wanted to play with her and I had germs. That was a rough year, but now I realize that Melanie was basic and had bad breath and its all good.
  • Bixi Zeng
    #14 Bixi Zeng on 09 Sep 13
     
    First time I saw him in the hallway. I could not move until my friends called my name. He is older than me. He is not look like normal Chinese. He has a special hair that is blond hair in the sunshine and good skin. Also he has an attractive eyes. I liked his smile that made me feeling warm and kind. I wanted to see him everyday. Fortunately, my classroom is near to his classroom. I stood in front of window to see him in the break time. Every time he has eyes contact with me. I always was shy and can not look his eyes. I told my friends I like him. they said 'why you did not talk with him. if you can try to talk with him, maybe you can be a friend with him.' I was afraid and nervous. A worst thing was happened that is my all classmates know i like him. I did not have ideas who told them. So one of classmate bet I could not talk with him. My friends abet me to talk him. I did not. But I wrote a letter to him and when he rest and sat under the basketball stands, I gave the letter to him. That is first time i speak to him. I was nervous and fear. However, I was near to him a step and I was happy about a week. I have his phone number. Every night I sent messages to him and he replied. One day, I knew he loves others that made me sad. I gave up because he has a girlfriend, is not me. Since he got a girlfriend, I did not never talk with him again.
  • Gigi Chen
    #17 Gigi Chen on 09 Sep 13
     
    My new middle school life start. I leave all my friends from primary school. New people, new school, no friend and new place I don't even know. Fun!!! That is a boarding school in Beijing China. My mom sends me there because the school is pretty. "Mom why I need go to a school here and I just can go back home once a week. I want to see my friends at home." "OK. Baby listen, here is a pretty place and you can do you best here. You friends will be fine; you still can see them once a week. I need to go to my job. Have fun here." That is the conversation between my mom and me in the first at school. The first weekend is coming so fast. I call my friends at the Friday and tell them where we can go and have fun there. I can't wait to see my friends. I got up so early went to there meet all my friends. One of my friends brought a cute boy. I ask him where you met him. He tells me we were in the same primary school. "Wow, I don't know that." He asks me out after I had fun with my friends. My heart was stopping beating for a minute. When I come down my emotion and give him a straight face say yes, Let's go. That is the first time I feel I like someone. I cannot stop see his smile. He is like sparkle in the dark night, is all ways that shine. I am positive feel is doesn't what stupid things he do I will still like him. We was like the best friend walk around, he will call me when he have time. All the friends think we should be couple. but we just know too much things about each other. Finally he talk to me saying we should be friends. We still friends now. He still will talk to me we are still friend but is not that close. I will still like him any ways but is in the friends way.
  • aidan dorvee
    #18 aidan dorvee on 09 Sep 13
     
    7th grade was a special year for me. My football team was awesome we had just won the state championship and all my friends and I were ecstatic. I was having a ball and it all got better when i noticed this girl named Aimee. She was amazing, beautiful black hair and brown eyes that I got lost in. I told her friends that i liked her and they got all exited and told me they wouldnt tell her. But they told her anyways but obviously thats what i had wanted. I finally got the courage to talk to her one day in mrs. Kill's math class. I went head over heals i then went out of my way to talk to her or even just to see her as many times as i could during the day. Then a few weeks later we hung out on a half day a bunch of my friends and her friends went to the park. Everyone knew that i was going to ask her to go out with me which created this tension in the air but im pretty sure i felt it way more than my friends. Then i did it, and she said yes! i was so happy and her beautiful smile made me tingly and week at the knees. we had the normal corny middle school relationship for a month or so until one day that i will never for get... the unthinkable happened. She came up to me after history class right after the bell rang and said " I think we should just be friends." i was devistated! i couldnt think of anything worse that could happen at the time and she ran through my head over and over like a looping tape. after a few months i got over it but that was a big one, aimee crushed me out of nowhere. But there is one thing i will never forget and that is that tingling feeling throughout my body She gave me anytime those beautiful brown eyes were within my site. Thankyou Aimee you gave me something i will never forget
  • tenzin crane
    #19 tenzin crane on 10 Sep 13
     
    As i grew up i moved to South Central LA at age 6. that's when i had my first serious and memorable crush and maybe it was a little to serious for a 6 year old lol. Well it was for this girl Named Natalie, blonde hair, blue eyes, a glistening smile and hips like Beyonce. Well i was happy to see she was very responsive to my flirtatious behavior, even though i didn't speak a lick of English. As i learned more English she told me eventually that she admired my confidence to the highest extent, and i enjoyed her company to a whole another level. Well it came time after three years of having play dates at each others houses and me pushing her on the playground swing set. My aunt and uncle came with the bad news that i would be moving to Boston in the end of my third grade year. I couldn't believe what i was hearing at the time, i was to young so part of me didn't think it was even honest. Then i told her and for some reason i realized that's life and it sank into my head at the snap of a finger that everyone eventually goes their separate ways. of course i wasn't thinking that deep about it but i got the message in my head. we hugged we gave each other a little third grade kiss on the cheek and i said goodbye, because of this experience of departing from someone i truly considered love at the time. ever since then i got into more relationships and got more experience but iv never had the feeling of getting to attached to girls.Well unless you know shes just that lucky one. I dont even get attached to my adoptive parents at all. I was away from home at treatment for 10 month and not once did i write them a letter home with out being pushed to. So this experience with Natalie really sparked my ideology and thought pattern and process for the next few years but since then iv grown alot moree. i dont want people to think im at some third grade love mindset lmfao
  • Deker Adelman
    #20 Deker Adelman on 10 Sep 13
     
    I still remember my first crush. I was in seccond grade and it was the end of the school day i was sitting out in front of the lower school waiting for my brother to pick me up. i remember as my brother pulled up in his car seeing a beautiful blonde sitting in the front. as i climbed into the car i began to sweat and get very nervous. that was when my brother told me that the blonde god sitting in the front seat was his girlfriend.I was in a daze i couldn't even muster up enough words to respond. the whole ride home i was thinking about how im in love.
  • Pierce Tricarico
    #21 Pierce Tricarico on 10 Sep 13
     
    Charlie Mitchell is my first crushes name. Charlie's parents and mine have been friends for the longest time so i have grown up with him. We use to play together all the time with my sister and his older brothers everyday. He was the cutest thing and he knew i loved him, he secretly loved me too. he was always playing that mean boy role, making fun of me and fooling around, but always came back around and acted like he liked me back. when i was in the 5th grade, charlies father died of brain cancer and thats when charlie and i stopped talking. he grew very distant with everyone around him including his family. his mom thought that boarding school would be a good choice, so in the 7th grade he didnt come back to school!!:( Charlie stopped coming around my house and things just floated away slowly:( i still love him!!!!!
  • zach harrison
    #22 zach harrison on 11 Sep 13
     
    I was about six, and in kindergarten. There was this girl named emma ( I forget her last name ) anyway, one day she just comes up to me and asks to be my girlfriend. fast forward two months, and I see her kissing two other kids. naturally I get mad and confront them, I followed one of them up to the highest point of the jungle gym, and when I made it to the top, I shoved him over the edge, climbed down and stomped on his stomach; and when his friend came over to see what had happened, I kneed him in the nuts, and tried to make a break for it. Unfortunately a teacher guarded the only exit, and managed to thwart my escape. I ended up getting suspended for four days, and never talked to that harlot again.
  • Daniel Shaw-Vicente
    #23 Daniel Shaw-Vicente on 12 Sep 13
     
    I could feel the adrenaline beginning to race through my body as the music in Spanish blasted from the speakers down below us. It was early December, the air outside was harshly cold and there was snow on the ground already. Inside everyone was dancing, eating and having a good time for it was my befriend, Deyi's, 14th birthday party. As the music blasted we sat next to each other, two innocent gay 13 year olds who just came out of the closet. We talked for a just a short period of time before we made the unanimous decision that the music was to loud to hold any kind of conversation near. We walked over to my best friend's bedroom and sat down on her bed, as I was her best friend and he her cousin. We exchanged conversation for over an hour before we made our way downstairs to dance. By the end of the night we where drenched in sweat from so much dancing. As we stepped outside I could feel the cold air slap me in the face. The next day he texted me and we loled back and forth on the text line all day before talking all night. A few days later he invited me with him to see the Harlem Globe Trotters at the Basket Ball Hall of Fame in Springfield before taking me out for a small dinner. After that point we began a relationship which unfortunately ended bitterly in early May. I no longer have any contact with him.
    -My first crush
  • Cris Boeckel
    #24 Cris Boeckel on 02 Oct 13
     
    It was the summer of fourth grade. I was at a friend's house and we were playing house in her treehouse. I think i was about nine years old and I was sitting on the rail of the treehouse when I felt a rock hit my back. I turned around and saw nothing, but soon after a group of four or five 11 year old boys came running through our house and messing everything up. Me and my friend Kristen ran out of the house and started fighting and screaming at the boys. One was her older brother Justin who seemed to be their ring leader. After that day he always picked on me and teased me while I didnt say anything and just stood there. As the years went on feelings developed and we started to talk more. We were good friends before anything because he was my friends older brother. Eventually we tried dating, but we realized that we were way better as friends than anything else.
  • Avery Booth
    #25 Avery Booth on 14 Oct 13
     
    My first crush was on a boy named Tyler brewster, who now goes by his stage name Demetri Bolton. I started crushing on tyler in the third grade. we would always go on the swings at recess and play at eachothers house after school for play dates and such. Tyler was different than most boys. When we would have play dates at his house we would play with his pink wooden doll house. Well i guess that was sort of a foreshadow because he now rocks skinny jeans and high heels every day, has been dating his boyfriend for two years now, and changed his name to a stage name. Pretty embarassing on my part.
  • james lee
    #26 james lee on 15 Oct 13
     
    My first crush was on a girl named emma Lawrence, when we were in fourth grade we would always play soccer together during recess and she would always ask me to help her learn soccer. One day after school we were walking back home and i just asked her would u go out with me and she said yes. Of course we didn't actually know whatww dating was or anything so it was basically the same as to when we were just friends.
  • Rich Ramirez
    #27 Rich Ramirez on 30 Oct 13
     
    In the fourth grade in my Catholic elementary school we rarely received new kids because you had to enroll in the beginning of the year. Well there was this one special case in which a student came into the class. Her name was Alexis and she had incredibly long blonde hair. She was designated to my homeroom which really excited me a ton. We started to talk here and there and then I really started to get feelings for her. There was a flaw to this wonderful story and it was the fact that my friend liked her too. So one day she gets brought up and he and I start to argue. Eventually as a whole we just all stopped talking.
  • Maryssa Haggett
    #28 Maryssa Haggett on 04 Nov 13
     
    My first crush was a guy named Elijah Young. I started liking him in 2nd grade. he has blond hair and was kinda chubby. he would always chase me around during resess and we would play tag together with a bunch of people and he would always tag me. in 4th grade, i had a party at my house and he starting liking a girl that came to my party from school. I started getting really upset with her and I told her to back off from him. i was having a really big attitude about it. I eventually started crying to my parents and I told them that i wanted her to leave. after the party, she started hanging out with him 24/7 and then they eventually started dating. today me and him talk every now and then and we just look back at our elementary school years and laugh.
  • Jim Talbott
    #29 Jim Talbott on 05 Nov 13
     
    It was my first day of kindergarden and up until this point whenever i saw a girl i only could think about the cooties the had, since that is how it had been taught to me. As i walked in from recess i remember seeing a pair of blue eyes as deep as the sea, and untouched beach blonde hair. I hadn't experienced anything like the butterflies i immediately received from just being in her presence, although i can't remember her name years later, i will never forget the way i got lost in her eyes and the feeling in my gut.
  • Jake Deutschlander
    #30 Jake Deutschlander on 21 Nov 13
     
    The first crush I ever had was in the 2nd grade, when I started to think this girl named Mary was cute. She had just moved to my elementary school from another school in the district. We would always play during recess together and after a few months of that I went in for the kiss and ended up kissing her. It's funny because we still have stayed in touch tell this day and we both just laugh thinking about elementary school because of the embarrassing things that happened at that school.

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