Upon the exquisite sight of the first time I saw my house, I was flabbergasted. I could not believe what my eyes were seeing. I had always dreamed of the statuesque wall, the cobblestone walls, and the attic that this unbelievably welcoming house. My mother was very joyful with this house, but as it was not new, some commission was needed for the house to go back to its golden age. My sister and I were walking on air when we saw this house, because, since childhood, both of us longed for a non-apartment house. This house was excelling because we needed a house with enough space for a church, as my father is the pastor of our church. With all these attributes fitting perfectly into what we dreamed of, this house was the perfect fit for our dreams and necessities.

A horse peed on me – grose. One memory that will never leave me is when I went to my great-grandfather’s farm and a horse peed on my sister, Ana, and I. This happened after a female horse reared up after seeing another horse; unfortunately, we had to wash our feet for an hour.

We went to Trás-os-Montes to visit some of my mother’s family, and this is where the episode happened. We had been traveling in a horse-drawn carriage in the old roads, with my father and my great-grandfather. As we were riding back home, our female horse saw another horse, a male, from a uncle of mine. She started getting uneasy, until she neighed and reared up. As she did this, she started peeing, and because my sister and I were in the trailer, her pee hit us in our legs and feet.

She was later controlled by my father, and we were able to get home. The feeling of warm and liquid in our feet was so nasty that when we got home, we washed our feet for an hour. When my mother heard of what happened, she could not stop laughing, and neither could my great-grandmother. In the moment the pee was very gross, but now, when thinking back, it is very funny.

Lying in my bed, turning left, I can see a elegant black bedside table. Farther that way, there is a modern clear desk with a simple black headphone holder, a silver can, a black-framed mirror, and a red mousepad with a scorpion drawing. In front of the bed are two wardrobes, one black and modern, and one brown and classy to the right. There is also another black wardrobe to (equal to the other) the right of the bed. Three feet to a diagonal right is a door to a veranda, black in the floor and orange in the walls.

Getting ready for school is an interesting process. First I get up from the warmth of my bed. Then, I go to the washroom and wash my face. Then, I get dressed and go to the kitchen. As I enter the kitchen, I can smell coffee and bread cooking. I then help my mom to set the table. After this, we eat and when we are done, we hear and read from a devotion. Subsequently, I pack my school material and brush my teeth from the taste of coffee. Finally, we hop in the car and drive to school.

The important thing about reading is that you learn.
Reading is exciting, but is also can put us to sleep;
it is filled with imagination, filled with what we see but don’t see;
it is holding a book, looking at the words that build images we see in our mind;
and it possesses the smell of a book, the smell of imagination or a smell of old memories;
it can also have a taste, taste of time.
When reading, we can hear what the characters say, we can hear the page turning to continue showing us a new world.
Reading is not restrained by time.
But the important thing about reading is that you learn from it.

Pranks are everywhere. You have probably been pranked in your life. This essay will give some tips for you to prank back people that pranked you and also start a prank war, a war to see who can prank most. I will talk about some modern pranks, some classical pranks, and some very inconvenient pranks, the funniest.
In bold will be the names of the pranks this essay will teach. Flipping out: turn on the laptop or desktop computer running Windows, right-click on the desktop and select “screen resolution.” This opens up a settings window. Change the “orientation” option to “landscape (flipped)” and the screen will flip upside-down, including mouse movements. Most people don’t know how to change this and they’ll be very confused with the upside-down computer screen. Yummy yogurt: clean out an empty mayonnaise jar with the label still clearly attached. Put some vanilla yogurt in there instead. When the guests arrive, take the mayonnaise jar out of the refrigerator and proceed to eat the yogurt straight out of the jar. They’ll think you’re crazy, snacking on mayonnaise!
There are also some pranks called “the classics”. This paragraph will describe the classy jokes that everyone has to try. Early wake up: after your victim is asleep reset the clocks so he or she will wake up a few hours early. You can try to trick one person or the entire family. Be warned that the victims may be especially grumpy from disrupted sleep, so do not use this plan very often. Short sheet the bed: when making the bed, fold the top sheet in half before tucking it in. A classy, this prank is effective because it strikes just as the victim is ready to get comfortable for the night.
This paragraph is about some very inconvenient pranks. Suds-Less Soap: certain things in life are expected. For instance, when you step in the shower, you expect your soap to create a lather. However, when you cover a bar of soap with clear nail polish, your victim can scrub with this coated bar for hours without seeing a single bubble. This is one of the best pranks to do at home for the pure levels of confusion it can produce. Make sure there is a spare bar of soap, so no one is late for work or school. On the Other Foot: stuff some cotton wool or other similar soft material into the toes of your victim’s favorite shoes. When he goes to put on his shoes, he’ll think that his feet have suddenly grown (or his shoes have miraculously shrunk). For even more fun, stuff more cotton wool in one shoe than the other so it will feel like one foot is much larger than the other.
This essay was one of the ones I had the most fun doing, about classy, modern, and very annoying pranks. I have tried most of these pranks and will try more. Have fun while doing all this laughing, and if you have people over for a short time, that’s the best time to prank them, because they don’t have time to prank you back. One last prank: switch the toilet paper of a bathroom with a roll of duct tape. It’s hilarious.

“Knowledge is proud he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble he knows no more.” It is difficult to explain what each one means, but it is possible. I will be talking about wisdom versus knowledge, and explaining the misunderstanding that they are the same. This essay is about wisdom, knowledge, and what they have in similarities.

Wisdom comes from God. It has to be trained, for it does not come naturally. It also is not teachable, even though it can be guided. For this guidance, the development of wisdom needs Scripture and Christ. Wisdom shares some attributes of her creator, and because God is eternal, pure, and inerrant, so is wisdom. This is also an attribute we cannot lose. The Bible mentions various times that this is something we have to seek. It even tells a parable presenting wisdom as a pearl, where a man sold all he had to buy it. Wisdom is something that God wants us to develop and apply in our life.

Knowledge, on the other hand, comes from man. It can be thought, and man can self-cultivate it. It also doesn’t need Scripture or Christ to continue operating. As it also shares attributes with who it comes from, it is finite, can be wrong, and can be taken away.The Bible orders us to stay away from it, and to keep out of its reach. It is compared to stupidity, and to impurity. This way, the Bible is telling us to stay clear of overusing and preferentially using knowledge.

There are also some similarities between wisdom and knowledge. God gives us commandments and directions in how to use each of them appropriately. They both can be developed, and time is needed for that to happen. They are both in the human being, even though wisdom may not be evident. Finally, they both affect our decisions, life, and actions, because they define the choices we make and those choices define the way our life is going to be directed. These can have differences, but they both influence our life and they are there for us, if we chose to use them or not.

People may consider that wisdom and knowledge refer to the same thing, but they have some differences, as well as some similarities. This essay was written to help you understand the difference and the importance of each, together with what Christians should think of each of these topics. The question is: Will you use them accordingly or not? That is your responsibility.

A Prisoner and Yet… by Corrie ten Boom, is a book written to inform us of Corrie’s life in the concentration camps she went through. It is more of a biographical novel; with some parts focusing on her life and the treatment that they underwent and n other parts the book describes scenes when God’s amazing power was shown like a cloud over his people, those who remain faithful to him.

Corrie’s starts this book by telling us about her life in Holland, with her sister, father, Jewish friends, and also with people that she is involved in her church. She lived in the house that the Hiding Place also describes as their house, for it is the same. It was a wood house with a secret compartment. German soldiers who were spying on their house for quite a time capture her, her sister, father, and some Jews a few pages later.

They are then sent to a concentration camp in Holland, were her father dies soon after. Her father was a sick man, a Christian man, and a man longing for Heaven. In this camp, Corrie and Betsie, her sister, make a few friends in their sells and try to evangelize them, with a big success rate. Then, some time after this, Betsie and Corrie are sent to Germany to stay in a camp there, much worse than the Dutch one. In Germany, they are put in barracks, they have tiny beds, sleep in places planned for 40 with 400 people, have scarce food, work almost to death, have to appear on Roll Call (having to wait outside, cold and raining) for hours until they are sent to work or until they are allowed to go back to the barracks.

In this camp, Ravensbruck, they are able to meet a large group of Christian believers and are also able to share their faith with other prisoners, who see their attitude towards their decrepit conditions, and also with the German officers, who see their way of obeying rules and following orders, along with their submission. Corrie and Betsie go through hard times, but we see, in this book, the account of times that God clearly led the circumstances in their favor for them to be allowed to serve him in the best of their capacities, even in their despair. They meet some disconsolate women who just seem they lost all faith that they will return home, so they encourage these women and give them a new hope based on the person of Jesus Christ, “Jesoes Christoes”, the name they used when they reached out to non-Dutch people who didn’t speak the Dutch language.

Some times in their camp life they became seriously ill, but usually it passed. But one time, Betsie became very ill, and even thought it was cold and she was dying, she was obligated to go to roll call. That situation only made her sickness worse, and when next roll call hit, Lony, their supervisor, said that Betsie didn’t have to go and sent her to the hospital. Betsie saddle died a few days later, and that amazingly made Corrie feel release of the weight that was having her sister endure this life. She new for certainty.

Corrie spent a few more months in the camp, helping in the task that Christ gave us to make more disciples and followers. She later received an order to appear after one of the officers, who told her that she was now free. She only understood this when they said to her Lagerentlassenen, the German word for “released from the concentration camp”. The people that were in camp could only leave it when they sign a paper that they were never sick or that they suffered during camp. They also had to leave in good health conditions, so because she had a problem in her feet, she wasn’t aloud to leave in that moment, for she had to recover from it in the hospital barrack. In this hospital she saw the desperation of the people and the way that they were treated, in even worse conditions of health compared with those that lived outside the hospital. Even in here she was able to give hope to those in great distress and help them have the certainty of faith before their sad but imminent death.

When she got better, she was allowed to leave camp and travel back to her Fatherland, Holland. She traveled with another Dutch woman and some Germans. She traveled by train until she reached Holland, were she went to a church. In that church, she was cared for, loved, and she had the biggest meals of all time. After a couple days to recover, she went to her house, were in a short time she began meeting with her church and girls’ group, were she started teaching with a complete new point of view. Her life was a life full of tribulations, but seeing how she kept her faith in Christ shown her profound belief in the person of Christ. I liked this book a very great deal because of this reason. This book can be a hard read because of the way it is divided and because it’s a biography, something not many people like to read.

A Prisoner and Yet…, by Corrie ten Boom, was written when she was in camp, both in Holland and Germany. This book has very huge chapters, so if you are trying to journal, try journaling by subtopics. At least, that’s how I did it. This book is more of a biography, but it has some novel like parts in it.

It is amazing to see how she had a very close relationship with God. It is also very cool to see how God answered her prayers in such a way that he provided, protected, and helped Corrie. He saved her from cold, hunger, illness, humiliation, or from being caught by any German authority. God definitely had her back at all time.

God also had a great impact in the lives of other war prisoners. Many were transformed just from hearing his word of comfort and protection in hard and evil times. Corrie was definitely an instrument in God’s hand to save people, along with her sister, Betsie. By God’s power through them, people were led to the path of peace and life, eternal one.

James 5.19-20

¹⁹ My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, ²⁰ remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

We see in the book that Antonina didn’t have any idea of who and when people were coming into the zoo. Only Jan did. We later find out that Jan was very active in the Underground operations. By Antonina’s recordings, we aren’t sure how the people came or why they came to the zoo, but we can see that somehow they knew that it was a “safe heaven”. Jan probably told the Underground high ranked people that he could help hide, feed, and protect people who needed to be out of German view.  These people probably hid until they saw no Germans around the park, then they contacted Antonina to give them a place to hide and rest. Antonina gives us accounts of people hiding in the Pheasant House, in the lions cages, or in the cages of any other animals. Some people even hid in the Żabiński’s house, living with them. People hid in wardrobes, bathrooms, and in the rooms they had to spare. They would later leave in secret, so that they could hide somewhere safer or go back to fighting for the Polish Resistance.

For more information on the Żabiński’s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_and_Antonina_%C5%BBabi%C5%84ski