Letter for my life

Sammi Cameron
123 Save ME Drive
Penticton, B.C.
V2A 3W1

February 10, 2011

Captain Van Camp
Commander
HMS Princess Margaret

O Captain, My Captain:
Captain Van Camp, I would first like to start my plea by telling you how much of a great teacher you are, and that you are my favorite teacher at Princess Margaret. I'm only 16 years old, but my birthday is in 11 days. I would really enjoy having a birthday party, did I mention you're invited to it? I haven't had much of a life yet. I dance, get good grades, and I volunteer at the SPCA cleaning cages and keeping the animals company. I am in the middle of running for a pageant, you see. The pageant is called "Miss Penticton" and I am very confident that I will succeed in the competition if you let me live. I was planning, once I am done high school to go to university in Kelowna to get my LPN in nursing. Once I complete that, I was planning on upgrading to my RN for nursing, and become  a nurse in the pediatric center in Vancouver. I plan on doing great things in this world, helping people, giving back to my community.

If you let me live, I will bring you coffee and a doughnut from Tim Hortons every week until June 2011. I hope you accept my offer, and I will hopefully be enjoying a future.
Sincerely,


Sammi Cameron

If you could go back in time.

The date was September 11, 2001. I remember sitting there, in front of the television, horrified at the sight of the Twin Towers collapse as a plane struck them. There was fire, and an extreme amount of smoke exiting through the building. People were screaming, so frightened from what they were seeing. No one knew what to do, except to just watch and hope that everything would soon come to its end. It was like everything was happening in slow motion, almost as if there was no other sound, just the sound and sight of the television. And then I realized people started plummeting from the building, they were trapped in there, and the only thing they could do was jump and prey to god that they would live to see another day. When I thought things couldn't get any worse, another plane crashed into the towers. That's where everything just stopped. There were 2,996 casualties just from the Twin Towers alone, but there were 6,294 survivors from the attack. Seeing a terrorist attack actually happen is life changing, it makes people think about our world, and how we can change it. But it also gives people hope, because even though the World suffered greatly for what happened, we all come together to help one another. The world lost a lot of great people that day, but we also saved people's lives, and that's what really matters.