Dear Ms. Christensen,

I’m really looking forward to this year, because it’s my last year of middle school at O.T.A.! I want to make this year my BEST year ever, I want to make it memorable! How am I going to do that? Well simple, I’m going to interact with my classmates and include them in everything. I’m taking a pledge to STOP gossiping, because I know how much it hurts and plus you don’t learn anything from it ESPECIALLY since its all just rumors.

Apart from being a “social butterfly” I want to get good grade and work really hard to finish my work on time! I LOVE math, it’s easy for me. My brain somehow calculates everything in seconds! Language Arts… its fun, I struggle a bit on reading, like pronouncing words, or even reading out loud. I also don’t understand some words or have a bid vocabulary, but I’m working on it. Science is my 3rd favorite subject, I’m fascinated with  Health Science -but I don’t want to be a doctor, too much blood- its fun to see how my body works. I love to watch Dr. Oz or The Doctors because they give you health tips.

Art and Music… I see more as a hobby than work. They calm me down, and helps me think clearly about whatever is going on in my life. Plus its fun just like Outdoor Ed. I enjoy running, hiking and swimming mostly. I did tennis for about 2 1/2 years. Now I just go to the gym. I would like to eventually do more sports like surfing and volleyball.

Seminar I also don’t see as ‘work’, because I’m just learning how to speak with an open mind, and speak firmly, and how to talk with a group -not argue with one-. You now know what I like and why. Am I forgetting something…? Ahhh yes.. history. History and I aren’t really in the “friend zone”. I’ve always struggle with history. I struggle on understanding it and understanding some BIG, GIGANTIC, HUMUNGUS history words like communist, democracy, terrorist, government, etc. There’s some parts of history that I do like, for example The Great Depression and The Holocaust. I’ve always said “Why do we need history? We should just move on and focus on the future,” but you taught me that, in order for us to know where we’re going we have to know where we came from and avoid the mistakes from the past, put in order to do that we have to know about the. Which is why from now on I want to learn history and make it my friend! I really want to try hared this year!

P.S. Looking forward to getting to know you!

Sincerely, Guadalupe M.