ESSAY 2: DESCRIPTIVE ROUGH DRAFT

"Shut up stupid!"
"No you shut up retard!!!"
This is the type of relationship I share with Portia Demetra Blanchette. And although it sounds as if we are siblings arguing about whom will say shut up first, Portia is my older cousin. We often jokingly converse this way on the phone after work, texting while after work, and even on a face to face level. However our affiliation is deeper than any sibling disagreement. This correlation is more like a 100 year old tree, still standing, because the roots are in the inmost part of the soil. Portia is my hero because she is a positive example, optimistic, and reliable.

If there is anything that I love about my cousin, it’s her examaple to those that are younger, and older. I cannot begin to fathom how much inspiration she has spilled out to me ever since I was born I have looked up to her like a child looks at a standing adult since I was an adolescent finding my way through life for many reasons. For starters, Portia has graduated from college with a major in business, emphasis is accounting. After graduating high school, she started attending college, but stopped. However, despite her quitting once, she went back, working to pay her way. She graduated from CWU in 2007, but hasn’t stopped there. When her job told her that she could get a better paying accounting job if she went back to school, she did just that. She has night classes at CWU on highlines' campus, while working as an accountant. This woman that I admire has all her priorities straight. Everything about her is positive, which is why I look up to her. I can trust that Portia will always speak and act positively at all times.

“It will get better Sasha.”
“It will be okay.”
“Things will work out,”

Are Portias' words that have raised my hope back up when it had gone down many times in my life. I don’t know how she does it, but with any and every situation, she somehow finds the good part in it. And when my life isn’t going so well, she tells me what to do to make it better. I can never talk to her without getting something positive out of the conversation, which makes my good days great, and my bad days better.

Portia is the most reliable, trusting person on earth to me! When she says she is going to do something, she does it. Things are always done efficiently and timely, and never half done. Whenever I have asked her for anything, she finds a way to get it done. And if she can’t, there are alternatives given to get whatever I need accomplished. I can always rely on her to tell me the truth, no matter if I like it or not. She has never let me down on her word, or her trust. And it’s not just me, but everyone she encounters is never let down.