I remember back in 6th grade, I transferred out of a private school to Ogden. I was pretty scared that I wouldn't know how to use my locker or buy school lunch since I was a newbie at all of this. I was entering into the pre-IB there for 6th-8th graders.
I actually didn't make it into the program just like that. I did pretty well on the test and was invited for the interview. I told the interviewer Ms. Dawn that I was a pretty independent person--which I am. I never ask my parents for help on homework or anything. I could tell that Ms. Dawn was pretty impressed since I was only a 6th grader and I didn't need any help from my parents. Then she questioned me if I was going to go straight to Lincoln Park for the actual IB program. I said I wasn't sure which threw everything off. My parents told me that I should've said that "I would consider". I received a letter saying that I didn't make it in which made me cry. I don't know why I cried. It wasn't a program that I was looking forward to, but I could tell that my mom was disappointed.
A couple weeks later, they sent another letter saying that I was accepted into the program. I was pretty excited going to a new school. On the first day, my mom dropped me off in front of the school. It was line up at the playground and I lined up with kids my age who were also new to the school. I felt kind of lonely since the girl in front of me had her mom with her.
We entered the school and it turned out to be a pretty nice school. The library was stocked with all kinds of books and one half was dedicated to nice computers. My first class was homeroom with Ms. Slavens. She was woman only about 5 foot 5 with pinkish tannish skin. Her face had unusual wrinkles. I don't know her age so maybe she was pretty old to be having wrinkles. She had black sunglasses on her forehead that matched her raven hair and dark eyes. She seemed kind of strict at first, but I could tell that she loved to laugh.
My next class was with Ms. Hueberman. If any of you guys know Ms. Heesemann, I'll tell you that they're similiar. However, Hueberman was way more sympathetic. She was a nice lady who explained the pre-algebra to us pretty well. However, I don't consider her as a good of a teacher as Mr. Calderon. He was my social studies teacher at Ogden who up to this point, is my favorite teacher. Mr. Calderon always wore dress shirts tucked in with the kind of pointy shoes that stars in Mexican movies would wear. He was a very cool teacher.
There was another person who worked in the school that was...interesting. HEr name was Miss Hogan. She was by far the scariest security guard EVER. Yes, even scarier than Mr. Engstrom. Throughout the year, she would turn up at school with her hair every color from blonde to purple. She was nice to the good kids and mean to the troublemakers, but I was always afraid that one day she would suddenly yell at me for doing something. Like many of my teachers, she was strict, but she would smile occasionally. Let's just say she was a very respected woman.
Before Ogden, I went to a Christian private school. Back then, I was VERY innocent until I went to Ogden. I didn't know who Rihanna or Fergie or even Chris Brown was. All of my friends at Ogden exposed me to this kind of stuff. At Ogden, I also LOVED how we had off-campus lunch. State street was filled with places like Subway and everything. My absolute favorite place would be Go Roma. It had the best pizza and 'potato sticks'.
Overall, I enjoyed my year at Ogden. However, when I came to Whitney for the academic center, I kind of lost touch with my friends and now some of them are here. I rarely talk to them or even say hi to them because now they're preppy and showoffs, but I'm happy here at Whitney Young.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Intro of myself
Hi guys!
I'm Hannah and I'm a freshman. Truthfully, American Lit is my favorite class. I have a sister and a brother who also came here--Grace and Riley. My hobbies are biking, reading, volleyball, cooking, and some other stuff. I also play instruments: the piano and the cello. I'm ABC (American Born Chinese) and I love it. I actually learn all my Chinese from watching Chinese soap operas with my mom.
One thing that my family loves to do is travel. I've never had a regular boring summer ever since 4th grade. I've gone all over Europe. I went to France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and so on. We even got a cuckoo clock from Germany (it always got really annoying so it's just a wall decoration now). I've been to Alaska--which has probably been my most favorite trip ever. We flew to Anchorage, Alaska and pretty much explored. We went to Denali National Park and saw all sorts of animals. I saw a couple bears and elk, but what I really liked about the park was that the plants and vegetation there were so colorful. There were red ferns and purple trees and such. One time my dad took us to a "Christmas in July" dinner sort of thing. We went to kind of a log cabin and ate a Christmas dinner with other people we had never met before (most of them were old people). The employees put on a show and I think I remember it was kind of weird.
I also went to the Bahamas, Jamaica, and the Grand Cayman Islands. On that trip, I kissed a string ray and a dolphin. Pretty cool, eh? (It's not that big of a deal.) When we went to Jamaica, we climbed a waterfall. It was the scariest thing ever! Everyone held hands and basically walked up the waterfall, but it was really hard going against the water. The Jamaicans there were like professionals. I saw some of them hop up the waterfall. I've also been around China. Hong Kong is my absolute favorite since my parents were born there, but I also loved going Guilum. There, we went to a cave in the mountainside with pretty cool stalagmites and stalactites. One group of stalactites resembled a lion and some stalagmites resembled the city of Shanghai. We also took a boat trip down the Yangtze River where the tour guide showed us some cracks on the side of the canyons. People were actually buried inside the rocks (a long, long time ago, it was normal for people to be buried there)!
I hope someday that I can go to Japan, South Korea, Australia, and maybe even Iceland. I'm a person who likes to experience things by actually going to the places rather than just looking at pictures which is why I love nature and science. My dream job is to work for National Geographic as a writer or a scientist. That's a little bit about me..hope you enjoyed my post!
I'm Hannah and I'm a freshman. Truthfully, American Lit is my favorite class. I have a sister and a brother who also came here--Grace and Riley. My hobbies are biking, reading, volleyball, cooking, and some other stuff. I also play instruments: the piano and the cello. I'm ABC (American Born Chinese) and I love it. I actually learn all my Chinese from watching Chinese soap operas with my mom.
One thing that my family loves to do is travel. I've never had a regular boring summer ever since 4th grade. I've gone all over Europe. I went to France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and so on. We even got a cuckoo clock from Germany (it always got really annoying so it's just a wall decoration now). I've been to Alaska--which has probably been my most favorite trip ever. We flew to Anchorage, Alaska and pretty much explored. We went to Denali National Park and saw all sorts of animals. I saw a couple bears and elk, but what I really liked about the park was that the plants and vegetation there were so colorful. There were red ferns and purple trees and such. One time my dad took us to a "Christmas in July" dinner sort of thing. We went to kind of a log cabin and ate a Christmas dinner with other people we had never met before (most of them were old people). The employees put on a show and I think I remember it was kind of weird.
I also went to the Bahamas, Jamaica, and the Grand Cayman Islands. On that trip, I kissed a string ray and a dolphin. Pretty cool, eh? (It's not that big of a deal.) When we went to Jamaica, we climbed a waterfall. It was the scariest thing ever! Everyone held hands and basically walked up the waterfall, but it was really hard going against the water. The Jamaicans there were like professionals. I saw some of them hop up the waterfall. I've also been around China. Hong Kong is my absolute favorite since my parents were born there, but I also loved going Guilum. There, we went to a cave in the mountainside with pretty cool stalagmites and stalactites. One group of stalactites resembled a lion and some stalagmites resembled the city of Shanghai. We also took a boat trip down the Yangtze River where the tour guide showed us some cracks on the side of the canyons. People were actually buried inside the rocks (a long, long time ago, it was normal for people to be buried there)!
I hope someday that I can go to Japan, South Korea, Australia, and maybe even Iceland. I'm a person who likes to experience things by actually going to the places rather than just looking at pictures which is why I love nature and science. My dream job is to work for National Geographic as a writer or a scientist. That's a little bit about me..hope you enjoyed my post!
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