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       I couldn't sleep with the anticipation of tomorrow. The excitement of being able to rush downstairs and open the colorfully wrapped presents just kept me awake. After what seemed like a couple of hours, my eyes felt heavier and heavier. Although I felt I could stay awake for days on, yet my eyes felt as if it had sandbags. As soon as I regained my senses, it was already the next day, Christmas Day.

   The excitement could not be held. I put my blanket aside and dash through the house to see the dazzling lights of the Christmas tree is the only thing I focused on. I see the rainbows of colored presents and I feel nothing but pure joy. The smell of pine filled the air in the room as a looked at all there was to offer for me and my family. As I call for everyone, they crawl out of their rooms as if they had something heavy on their shoulder. After a few minutes, everyone is in the state of happiness. The whole house is filled with laughter and happiness. It is finally Christmas. 

Querencia Final Draft

       There were always those days where, there is just so much homework, and things aren't going the way I want to. I needed a place to cool down, and to abandon the anxiety of school work. And it came. One day, when I was walking to my friend's house after school, and I saw my soon-to-be friends all just hanging around in the shade of an unfamiliar area, under a tree whilst having youthful conversations.I never knew about the place, and even if I passed by it before, I've never decided to go and visit that place, but then after I hanged out with my friends and gone there more and more, I realized that the place is a great place Tt was an on a bridge crossing over a golf course, and halfway through, a magnificent tree, surrounded by stone benches in front of a golf course. Every time school ended, me and my friends always went to the place. Its convenient, because it was close to our homes, and it has a beautiful view. Revisitation can never too old, because its somewhere we can relax for once in a while when we don't want to just go home, and do homework.

       Honestly, I'm glad I have this to sit around at. School is very hard, and my parents expect a lot from me since I'm the oldest in the family. So having a rendezvous just makes all the stress leave me me. I can't feel negative emotions whenever I visit that place. When I'm there, it is as if the wind just picks up all my stress, and blows it away making me have time to think about many things without a worry in the world, even death just feels like nothing. I can look at the sunset over the golf course and smile at the setting orange of the sun, and the clouds who mimic the color. The lakes shimmer with the reflection of the afternoon sun and the grass sways in rhythm. I feel time would stop, so I can enjoy these precious moments separately from any other moment I've experienced, because I have nothing but time to myself, no worries. Even if my emotions doesn't change right away, it still is a good feeling.


      I am the one guy who prefers peace, and some isolation once in a while. My mixed feelings of an growing teenager makes stress of school any many more problems i have to deal with more and more frustrating. I need that isolation from people and any problems, so that I don't have to be as frustrated. So that's why I go to the golf course, because I feel nothing. All I feel is the cold hard stone benches cooling off my skin on my body, I hear nothing but the wind and the occasional car passing by. I see the beautiful art drawn before me, as the orange sun paints over the clouds and hides behind the mountains in the distance, I smell the oak from the giant tree in the middle of the area. These things makes my mind clear, and free of stress. I cannot feel pain nor stress when these things is all I see or feel.

      I will, and always will go here. I do not visit often, but I want to soon. The feeling is great, and the sights are amazing. I can bring my friends, or my dog even to enjoy the place. Or I can go there by myself and get time for myself. To feel, to think, and not feel stress from whatever I experience in my life. I love the place to my very heart, and I need to thank my friends for introducing to the place, even if they don't go there anymore. Why this place? Well Im not too sure myself, I've been to many breath taking sights before, and yet, I don't feel as relaxed as I do here at the golf course. Maybe because it is isolated from a lot of people, and the fact that I have time to think to myself. The fact that I can just slow down, relax, and just stare off at the distance, instead of walking around and looking at something big for two minutes. Instead can feel peaceful for an hour or even longer. I do prefer the feeling of peace anyway. Hopefully, the sooner I have less homework to stress about, the more and more I can visit that place, feel at peace, and have time to myself. My querencia may be simple, but I believe that the feeling is magnificent.

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Querencia draft

      There were always those days where, there is just so much homework, and things aren't going the way I want to, I needed a place to cool down. I always had to anxiously walk home, knowing I won't have freedom to myself when I enter the doors to my own home, not until my friend introduced me to somewhere that I never would've considered before.

       I was walking with my friend to his house, since he lives in the opposite direction as me, I have to walk extra in the how pacific sun. After we walked for a while, we stopped in the middle of the street, at a big tree next to a golf course. There me, my friend, and the other soon-to-be friends were there having fun, or relaxing. I always finish school, with the excitement of going there, knowing that all of my friends are there enjoying the same structure and field we all see.

        It was a beautiful spot to be at. It was a magnificent tree surrounded smooth stone bench like structure, with the field of the gold course, and the mountain in the background. Other times, I like to visit there when there is a sunset, and see the orange sun paint over the clouds to a bright orange color too. It just became a regularity to constantly go there, with my friends, to go walk my dog, or even just go there for the sake of sight seeing. The nice cool breeze just blows away all my fears, all my anxiety of life, and all there is really to focus on is the sunset that's just setting and the shining reflection of the lakes.

       I am glad I have put this place into consideration, because it is a nice place. Even if I'm by myself, I never feel lonely, because I know that I just have this sanctuary that I can refreshed and clean. The isolation helps, its a place that people just most likely just walk by, making it where its almost just me and my friend's territory. Of course I love to have my friends around, but the isolation helps me think about life more, I never have to worry about anything when I'm here. This is my Querencia.