Hi guys 🙂 so this class was basically the best class I’ve taken in all four years of my high school life. I loved how we all connected and how supportive we were of each others performances. Ive grown as a public speaker in this class most definitely. I met some awesome new people too including Ms.K. oh wait this is supposed to be about me right ? okay well uh, so I’m almost 18, ill be 18 in july, and I’m peruvian and russian…hm I’m trying to think about something interesting i can put on here. well i work at the really cute boutique called Red Hue Boutique in the rockville town center, its kinda vintage like and not like the stuff you would see at forever 21. Working here has taught me a lot about fashion. i absolutely love this job, nd this friday we have a fashion show at the rooftop here on the rockville town center, the will be my firs time woking at a fashion show at a club so I’m really excited. Well I’m going to MC in the fall, and I’m doing the MTAP program there so after one semester i will alo be taking classes at UMD CP, for the same price I’m paying at MC, isn’t that awesome ? I’m grateful for this program its awesome, montgomery college offers a lot of opportunities and help. right now I’m at work and about to close up, business has been awesome, when its sunny and warm out people are like “hey let me just shop till i drop.” I’m really hungry…havent ate all day, can’t wait to clue up. i like ice cream…i had ice cream today, its zoo good i swear, if i could live off just ice cream i would, too bad I’m lactose in tolerant, but thank god for the lactose pills. you know soy milk is actually a lot better than regular milk, taste so much better honestly. oh shoot i just remembered i have a senior project due tomorrow, I’m so done with high school, i can’t wait to graduate. it hasn’t really hit me that I’m done yet, i mean everyones all freakin out and I’m just chill. i guess it won’t hit me until I’m walking across the stage. ight so i gotta close up now, deuces, love you all
A couple of days ago, I drove by an elementary school and by the school name, just right above had the words Kinda-garden orientation and I thought back as far as I could remember, I think it was the year of 99-00′, because believe it or not those were the years, us, the class of 2012’s journey began. I can’t say that our journey together has been easy, but along the way we have gain a few things. We have gain great friends, great memories and most of all we have gain a sense of direction to who we want or aspire to be in life. Its kinda sad that after spending 4 years with each other that now we have to part ways and go on to venture in are own endeavor. Life has a funny way of challenging us, and as most will agree with me leaving NWHS and all of the friends and memories will be a challenge, but as Robert Frost once said “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” an indeed life will. But just take the time to reflect on our lives up to now we have been in school for over 12 years, and are finally graduating in about 2 weeks, WOW. Its been some roller coaster ride huh? And to think we’ve only just begun….
“As we go on, we remember, all the time we spent together.” When i think about my last four years at northwest high school, these words describe my feelings perfectly. Though i will always remember my life at northwest and all the friends i have made, i know it is now time to “go on”. I have sooo excited to “go on” in my life. I will be going to NYC for school in the fall, which im sure will be a life changing experience. I am excited to finally live the life i have always dreamed of. I will be growing up and finding myself as a profeshional and a individual in the city that never sleeps. NYC has so much to offer me and i cant wait to get to know it. I am excited experience the art, music, life of New York City. With that excitment, comes fear and worry as well. Im afraid that i will not be good enough in my Musical theater Program. I am afraid that my Musical theatre class will not like me. I am afraid that I will get too caught up in all NY has to offer and spend all my money. Most of all, I am afraid that i am rushing to NY when im not ready. Though i have these fears, i feel i must go with my gut and go for it. YOLO.  I am fortunate to be in a great program where i will get to belt my face with some of the most talented people and work with extremely suceccful profeshionals. Though i am going on to such a exciting and fast moving future, i know i will always remember the times i spent with my best friends. YOLO
To my all classmates and beautiful and stylish teacher Mrs. Kominski, I had a good time in Oral Interpretation & Media. Whenever I was there, I could enjoy my time listening to music and taking a nice nap. Growing up I have always been reluctant to get up and perform on stage or deliver a speech in front of group of people, small as 3 people to abundant amount. I have a tendency to stutter and become nervous once on stage. I enjoy getting to meet new people and learning about their background such as who their friends are and what activities they enjoy to do. It’s hard to remember names because I have met so many people in just the past year. I love listening to music, without music the world would be in complete mayhem. Laughing is the best thing that can happen to me, with friends or even by myself any chance I get to laugh at anything I cherish. I had a wonderful four years here at northwest high school and would not want to do it over again. One go around is good enough for me, I am fine with what I accomplished here at Northwest. I have seen the good and the bad, had my ups and downs and allowed myself to grow and become a young mature adult. Hoping that these events help build me to become a successful man in the future. One thing that I am most excited about and will not miss one second of it. Waking up at 6am, I hated waking up every morning just to come to a place where I get yelled at for talking to friends, Get suspended because a kid ripped my jacket and laughed at me. So I had to knock some sense into him. The list can go on about why I am upset I had to wake up every morning at 6am, none the less I enjoyed my time here at Northwest High School.
Grace Dwight
Okay, to be honest I am completely terrible about the whole “write about you” kind of stuff, because I have absolutely no clue to who I am as a person. I am made up of infinite paradoxes and I mean, hey, I am only seventeen years old. Why do I have to know who I am or what I want to do when I get older? I still have so much to learn, so much to experience until I truly know who I am. And I mean, who honestly actually ever knows themselves. As time goes on, people change and/or they uncover and develop things in them that they never knew were there. To be real, I hate it when people, especially teachers or adults, ask what I am going to do next year. I am all like “well..um, you see the thing is I’m not going to college for a year. I’m going to India and London through this program. Then college.” Their faces are the worst-their faces warp into a confused and sort of pitiful mix with disappointment, like “oh, you’re not going to college? Obviously you’re a failure. How are you ever going to succeed in life?” But instead of saying that they usually just say “Oh, that’ll be amazing. It’ll be a truly eye opening experience.” But I know what they are really thinking. It makes me so frustrated. I just want to scream – “LIFE SHOULDN’T BE FORMULAIC!” I am in no way mature enough to just head straight back into the seemingly endless school system. I don’t even know what I want to study, so those four years of extremely overpriced would be useless. I need to go out into the world and experience new things, which will hopefully lead me to finding my calling in the world. For many people the whole, go to school till high school then go straight to college, then find a job, works for them. But for the people like me, we need a place to grow because even if our faces get wrinkles and we pay taxes, we will not be all “grown up” because in reality will have never found ourselves. So, I am incredibly excited for my future. I cannot wait to see the world and experience new things that I have never even dreamed of. I’m ready to find my path in life, and live it to its fullest. So, don’t discriminate because I’m not following the “normal” path. There are other paths-why do you think that there are so many exits? I want to defy the norm, because that’s what it best for me, and I bet that it is the best for many others too.
SWAG!
My name is Evan Angert and what I do for an extracurricular activity during my school year is play a co-ed varsity sport known as Allied Softball which is played in the spring. Believe it or not, this sport is played indoors at the main gym. This sport is for people who have or do not have disabilities that want to play an athletic sport. To me, I think that Allied Softball is a pre-baseball experience. I turned out to be really good at it because I played that sport a few times in PE. I also played another sport during the winter season known as Allied Bocce Ball. Both of these sports are coached by Mrs. Deming, who is in fact an English teacher, and the Assistant Coach Mrs. Amori, who is an English assistant. For softball, what we do when we are batting is that we try to hit the ball as far as possible and make it back to home plate, and score as many points as the team can before there is a total of three outs. Even though I am a good batter and runner, I also have to play defense when the other team is up to bat. I play many positions such as pitcher, catcher, and second base. My main favorite position is second base because, like all the other defense players, I can catch the ball to make an out. After that team has three outs, we switch to batting again and we repeat that same process for six innings. As of now, our team is doing really well and is placed in second place. Sometimes I get to pitch where I throw the ball to the other player using underhand trying not to let the other player bat it. I think this sport is good for teens my age because it lets me experience a varsity sport even if I have disabilities. Also, it lets you have fun and be social. I have gotten a lot out of these two sports I was surprised to win a Jaguar Award for Allied Bocce Ball, but even more amazing than that, I made a new special friend that I met at Bocce Ball and I am officially taking her to the prom. To all of the people who are out there reading this blog, if you want to play a sport and be social, I highly recommend playing a sport like Allied Softball and Bocce Ball. Have fun and enjoy yourself.
“Okay, Dana, time to let the balloon go,” my Sunday school teacher urged. My five-year-old fist reluctantly unclenched and I watched my balloon float away through tear-clouded eyes. What happened next is a significant memory for me. It is one of several times that my brother’s exceptional qualities made a contribution to my character.
When I was five and my older brother was ten, a member of the church died and the Sunday school teachers took all of the elementary school children outside to release balloons in her memory. For whatever reason, I had developed an attachment to my balloon and I had a difficult time releasing it. In fact, when I finally did release it I began to cry. My brother saw this and instead of being embarrassed or leaving someone else to deal with me, he attempted to lift my spirits. He left the “big kids” and played with the bouncy balls with his little sister. At the time, and even still, this meant a great deal. The care that my brother has shown me throughout the years has left an indelible impression; it is my experiences with him that have instilled in me a deep sensitivity and concern for the feelings of others. I feel that he is a part of why I want to become a doctor; I want to positively impact people not only by healing their bodies, but by providing them with holistic care that addresses their emotional needs as well.
In addition to his caring spirit, my brother’s intellect has also had a considerable influence on me. He has always done very well in school and, while some of it may be ascribed to sibling rivalry, I always wanted to do as well as or better than he did. From a young age I took school very seriously; I began kindergarten unable to read and for the first few months of kindergarten I was a very frustrated five-year-old. I pestered everyone in my family, especially my brother, to sit with me and read until I was finally on my way to literacy. From this early seed of responsibility for my learning grew a genuine curiosity to gain new knowledge. I would see my brother doing homework and I could not wait until I was learning that too. I enjoyed, and still enjoy, learning. My dedication to school is not only because I emulate my brother; it is because I truly feel that there is so much in this world that can be absorbed and I believe it is my responsibility to pursue knowledge.
Having such an amazing big brother as an example has been a great blessing. He has helped to mold me into a unique person with a positive perspective on the world. His example drives me to accomplish greatness and pursue a personal success measured not by the material, but by the impact I may have on others.
I cannot explain to you how much I love sleep. Sleeping is probably one of my favorite things to do. I give up so much for sleeping. I give up hanging out with my friends, doing my homework, going to swim team practice or making money for sleep. I’m horrible. I obviously will give up anything for sleep. I sleep a lot, but I still feel like I never get enough of it. I probably have slept more than I need to. Still to this day I don’t understand why during nap time as a child I would think it was play time and wake everyone up and be as loud as I could be. That was all so unnecessary.  I got in a lot of trouble for that kind of stuff everyday.
I’m actually really jealous of people who get to go home everyday after school and take a nap. I don’t think those people understand how lucky they are. I do not get to do that. Almost everyday when I get home from school I grab my swim bag and head out to practice or I go babysit. It’s not fair. You get to go home and take a nap everyday, do not complain to about how tired you are. And do not complain if you had a ton of time to do your homework, but you chose to stay wait until 12am to do it. You could have done it earlier and gone to bed on time. That’s your fault.
I’m just always sleepy and I always feel the need to sleep. There is never a time where sleep is not necessary. Although, I probably sleep too much when I know that I have a ton of work I should be doing, sleep is definitely a good thing. Sleep helps you get through the day. It keeps you going. If you didn’t sleep you wouldn’t be able to stay awake during class and get good grades. Or you could just sleep and not do work. I mean that’s what I do….Â
HSA week, 2011. My AP exams were over and I could finally get back to the things in my life that I liked and there I was sitting on the side of a road, battered, bloody, and bruised.
I told my friend the week before that we should possibly do something the morning of one of the HSA exams. He was going to graduate so he was pretty much done. I suggested we could go for a bike ride, perhaps to Poolesville? The trip would be a little long, but if we went fast I told him, we could make it back for the start of third period.
That morning we started out at about 7:30am. The ride there was rather uneventful and we made it to Poolesville High School five minutes ahead of schedule. I went inside the school to refill my water bottle and was told to leave because I did not have a visitor pass. Oh well, I had my water anyway. We were about to leave when I noticed I had a text from a female I was rather fond of at the time. But time was running short so we left.
I love to bike around the Poolesville area because the roads are so quiet and peaceful. Hughes Road is one of the roads. It winds its way from the neighborhoods around Poolesville to nice green farm country. Oh but that text, I had almost forgotten. I needed to respond. The road has a gentle downward slope and has very few cars on it. What a perfect place. So I took both hands off the handle bars, whipped my phone out, and proceeded to text while biking….like a badass. I laughed when I told my friend that drivers are always warned about texting while driving, but this was probably worse. As I was coming to a four way stop a large truck came through the intersection. As a cyclist I don’t stop at stop signs, those are for cars, and I probably would have hit him had I not hit the breaks. Close call.
The road continued its downward slope and I continued my texting. Isn’t that kind of dangerous she asked me. No of course not I told her, not for the experienced rider like myself.
Potholes are not very noticeable in a car, but as a biker, they are the bane of my existence. I felt my front wheel hit something and suddenly I was propelled over my handle bars. As I flew I threw my phone to the side and landed chin first on the nice soft pavement. I had large scrapes on both knees and both elbows as well as a very blatant one on my chin. Thankfully my bike was not broken and I struggled to get home ending up late to school.
What have I learned? I still text while biking from time to time, just not on Hughes Road anymore.
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