Special Place (paragraph)

Ice Palace

                   Walking in to the cold Ice skating arena, you feel the cold wind brushing you in the face. Listening to the loud and mainstream music you walk towards the skates booth telling the worker what size your skates are, you wait and look around, you see a warm looking booth and the cold looking ice rink as you see people passing by and skating in a circle. Then, the worker comes back with skates and you excitedly grab them and rush to put them on, as soon as you put them on you rush to the ice rink to skate. as you stepped on the ice, you feel a cold breeze passing by your body as you skate. Skating smoothly across the ice you feel relaxed, listening to the comforting music and skating along the ice, you are calm, that is my special place.

Special Place (Essay)

                 Whenever I got mad or very aggravated I would always listen to music and think to myself about the thing that was irritating me. Whenever I think things over I tend to be more relax and start to calm down. I try to think of a happy memory from my past or a happy place to calm myself.
                 A place that I consider special would be ice palace, although I have a lot of bad memories at ice palace the feeling of the icy cold air, the loud, pounding music, and the smooth movement of me skating across the ice is very relaxing to me. Just Skating smoothly across the ice makes me feel like im gliding, it makes me feel like im really fast as the cold icy wind is passing by. As I skate faster and faster I would have to dodge some people so I dont fall or cause a accident, and as I dodge people, as they pass, I feel like im so powerful, just the feeling that I can go through people in a crowded area makes me feel like I am not able to fall and just go with the flow, its very relaxing.
                 Also, whenever I get mad or irritated at school, during break or lunch I would always take my time to walk around and think, and as I walk around, I walk to the third floor and look at the view of the city of in the distance and relax there al by myself.

Food Final Draft

         Lumpia, it is a delicious Filipino version of the egg roll. The Lumpia I am describing is the 

"shu mai" version which consists of fried meat with various types of vegetables like carrots, celery, onion, and garlic. Lumpia can used as a side dish but my family uses it as a main dish.

         As i grew up, my Mom would always cook her home made Lumpia on special occasions. she on she would always cook this lumpia whenever we had a party, reunions, or just at random times we she would feel like it. My mom really never made her lumpia very often, she would make it about 3 times a month. My mom got her recipe from our own family friend. My mom says she doesn't not intend to sell it and wants to keep the recipe in the family. A long time ago, when my mom would make a lot of lumpia for a big party, some of my aunties and uncles would help for the party, they would always come to our house and talk with my mom and dad and have fun, my mom and her sister would always be in the kitchen fixing up the ingredients and frying the lumpia, wrapping it, or make more meat for the lumpia. As for my dad and my uncles, they would get all the drinks and prepare the tent, tables and chairs.  The reason why i enjoy it so much is because the memories it holds and the delicious flavor in my mouth. Also my brother agrees, he had the same memories as i have so we said "since i also grew up eating this lumpia, i also think it is delicious."

          Lumpia, the way my mother makes it, we all eat it with vinegar, it amplifies the flavor, it has a crunchy shell, and as it crunches you taste the meat mixing with the vinegar as it flourishes in your mouth and it explodes with flavor as you chew it. With all the ingredients in the lumpia, frying it seals in the flavor and as you chew it just explodes as i said earlier, so describing it would be like a flavor bomb and as you insert it into your mouth it detonates on tongue with a flavor that'll leave you wanting more.