daniel+k

Well, to begin with, I honestly thought my high school life will fly as quickly as possible, but it turned out to be a whole lot of priceless experience that I will carry into college and further in my life. Also, I guess it made me where I am now and actually ended up doing this project. It all began at Roncalli College, New Zealand as a 3rd form or as a freshman you would call it. In my freshman year, people usually described me as cheeky, random, extremely outgoing, … or just weird. I was pretty lucky coming to Roncalli College as a freshman with friends that I used to know from my middle school, so there weren’t really any problems in getting along with others and the school itself. In New Zealand, or specifically speaking from my town, Timaru, high school grades weren’t as significant as in American high schools. Meaning, I didn’t really focus on getting my grades up as I do here. But instead, I was involved in variety of extracurricular activities like playing rugby, cricket, volleyball, camping, surfing, wakeboarding, sand boarding, and etc etc. And then, end of my sophomore year, which was also my last year in Roncalli College, it was quite hard to leave everything again and basically start a new life at the age of 16, but ending my sophomore year by dancing in a gorilla suit with my group in front of the whole school (for our school’s tradition) was a pretty good deal. So, here I was, a little kiwi, in United States for the first time, enrolling at Green Hope high school two weeks later, it was pretty nice to see such diversity in a school unlike in New Zealand. Because of that, I had the chance to meet new and interesting people that I never have encountered in my high school life. Also, this was when I finally came across to the term, “studying” and I wasn’t so sad about it, because I too admit that I just had way too much fun back in New Zealand. Since I arrived at Green Hope in my junior year, which is supposed to be the most important year of all, I really didn’t have time to complain about adapting to the American culture and people, so I just went along with it. However, my quick adjustment in America also drastically changed my personality in somewhat ways positively and negatively. In the end, it’s all pretty troublesome to look back in retrospect of my high school life, but I’m already a senior, getting ready for college and I guess I just have to deal with these troublesome stuffs for a quite of time. That’s life huh.

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