Sentences with phrase «schoolmate told»

When I was young, an older schoolmate told me paper gum wrappers were edible.

In fact, my schoolmates told me countless times that American breakfasts, a.k.a. bacon and eggs, sounded disgusting.

Not exact matches

She may not have known my name or anyone else from her shorter term memory, but she could tell me the name of everyone in that album - old boyfriends, schoolmates of hers, homes and cars and vacations (how amazing our minds are).

The story is told non-sequentially, with excerpts from retrospective interviews with Ben's parents, teachers and schoolmates hinting at the disaster still to come.

The eldest, Faruk, a dissipated historian, wallows in alcohol as he laments his inability to tell the story of the past from the kaleidoscopic pieces he finds in the local archive; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgün, has yet to discover the real - life consequences of highminded politics; and Metin, a high school nerd, tries to keep up with the lifestyle of his spoiled society schoolmates while he fantasizes about going to America - an unaffordable dream unless he can persuade his grandmother to tear down her house.

Before the shooting, Nikolas told the parents of a schoolmate, who took him in after his mother's death, that he stood to inherit $ 800,000 when he turns 22.

Nikolas Cruz, 19, did not live with Deschamps for long — he moved back to Parkland with a former schoolmate's family and told them he stood to inherit $ 800,000 when he turns 22.

Before the shooting, Nikolas told the parents of a schoolmate who took him in after his mother's death, that he would inherit $ 800,000 when he turns 22.

I had to hide behind desks and hold the hands of my classmates, shaking and praying, hearing the gunshots outside of my door,» said Mei - Ling Ho - Shing, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, telling the 28 other panelists about her experience inside the school as Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 of her schoolmates and school staff.