My Life in Words

Dear Junior Student:

My name is Karen and I would like to introduce myself to you in order for us to get to know one another and be able to converse with each other comfortably. Although we’re being introduced in a formal way and through our English teachers, I would like to have the chance to become a friend of yours aside from being acquaintances.

Outside of West, it’s always in my best interest to hang out with my friends or go to the gym whenever I can, but it’s always nice to just relax at home and enjoy some time alone once and awhile. During the summer, I did nothing but go outside swimming, or hanging out with my friends and family, and taking 3 day trips to each Toronto, Canada and New York City. I went to Chinatown to both cities and it was amazing because there aren't that many of my race in the area I live in. What’s important to me is trying my best everyday so that even if it’s just one person, I can help brighten their day just a little. Ever since junior year had started, I wanted to be more involved at West so I decided to join Key Club, Crushing Cancer Club, DECA and the Class of 2015 Board.

Times Square in New York City

Toronto, Canada

My strengths as a student mainly fall in Math or Science. Currently, my favorite class would have to be Business and Criminal Law. Although English is nice, I’m able to learn so many things about the legal system that I wasn't able to before and I am now able to understand more areas that relate to our government. My goals for junior year is to keep my grades up in honor roll and see if I’m able to be within the top 10 senior students next year and as well as, getting a high grade on the SAT's. This year I would like to learn more about life after high school since we are so close to the graduating and having to apply for colleges frighten me. So in order to feel more comfortable, I’d like to be more familiar and prepare myself for my future life.

As a reader, I tend to read slowly and steadily but as I get more into a book, my tempo increases and I’m not able to put down the book until either my eyes become sore or I've reached the end of the novel. The best novel I have read so far would have to be Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side, due to it taking romance and fantasy to whole another level. My goal as a reader is to increase my literature difficulty into books that has a stronger vocabulary and may be for an older audience. My goal as a writer is to strengthen my sentence structure and to use more of a sophisticated vocabulary range.

I enjoyed writing this and I hope we are able to find something we have mutually in common with. I hope your junior year is filled with nothing but smiles and good times.

Sincerely,

Karen