Journal Number 13

Dear roommate,

            My name is Shatina Serrano. I'm looking foward to being your roommate. Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I am half black, half purto rican. I'm from California but I used to live in Philadelphia when I was little. I used to live with my mom and my dad and i have a little sister who is 10 years old. I graduated from Castle Park High School and in there I was in the IB program. IB stands for international bachelorette. It's a program in high school that you get invited into and if you past tests they give you, you get college credit that way you start off as a sophmore in college instead of a freshman. My favorite sport is basketball. In high school though I ran track besides playin basketball. My favorite subject in school is math. I hate english and history. My favorite color is purple. Im a very out going, sports loving, and artistic person. I think thats about it. Can't wait to meet you.

                                                                                                            From,
                                                                                                                   Shatina Serrano

Journal Number 14

I think the quote " He does not posses wealth, it posses him " is some what true some what not true. I think its true because when a person has money they think they're all that. They also think that their better then everyone else and they end up by themselve. I think that it's not true too because I have always heard growing up that money doesn't change you it changes the people around you. Thats true too because when you have money all of a sudden everyone becomes your friend and then you dont know whos your real friends and whos faking it.

Journal Number 15

I think the most valuable contribution I could make to a college would be my creativity and my sports men ship. I think my creativity art wise because im a very good drawer. When I look at something I could draw it. I also think I could be artistic when I put my mind to it and that would be a good aspect to have at a college. For sports I could do good in basketball. If a college were to have me on a team I think my talent could really help out the team. Also im a very good team mate and work well with people and every college would love to have a person that works well with people.

Journal Number 16

A significant experience for me would have to be when I finally became un-shy around people. Through out my life I have always loved basketball but my elementary school never had one and i was always to shy to either ask or start one. When i got to middle school I was still shy but then I met this girl and she kind of forced me to try out for basketball. Guess what I made the team!!! I was so shy but as soon as I made the team I realized  there was no reason to be shy. Of course playin in basketball games got me not to be shy to...But I was so proud of my self for over coming my fear. This effected my life because now im not afraid to be who I am or to go for anything I want. Yes, sometimes during basketball games I get nervous, everyone does, but at least im not scared.

Journal Number 17

Well there is a lot of talk about Castle Park this year. I think the issue of all the problems at Castle Park is important to me and affects me. It's important to me because I go to a fantastic school but to everybody else they think the school is trash or a joke. People always talk about stuff  they don't' know. I think if people  ignore the faults of my school and focus on important things it would be better. The incident that just happen with the teacher using meth affects me because even though I wasn't her student, I think like because of her stupidity I feel if I even say I'm from castle park people will automatically assume I had something to do with. Also like that follows me even when i apply to college because they would automatically the school I came from once I mention the name.

Journal number 18

If I could change two things about our school it would have to be our school spirt and our sports area. I would change our school spirit because too many people talk about our school and you shouldn't talk stuff about your own school. Also because through all the things Castle Park High is going through if everyone were to have school spirit maybe we could go somewhere and make step forward instead of making steps back. I would also change our sports area because in my opinion I feel that a lot of money goes to football. Not only does a lot of money goes to football but just to guy sports in general. I'm a girl and this personally affects me because as being a sports girl I know from experience that we always get the short end of the stick. We always have to fund raise if we need things and pay from our pockets or else we get nothing and in my opinion I just don't see the fairness in that. I think that their should be equality between the two sexes and not just a favorable one.

                              

can you tell which ones are the girls uniform?

Journal number 19

In my opinion school should be mandatory to attend. The whole purpose of school is to inform you and teach you what and what not to do in life in order to succeed in life. With out school people would have nothing to work at and get better at. School also gives us a social life cause not every one would be able to see each other with out school. If school was not mandatory I feel that we would have a lot of pot heads and drunk people in the world. Also that the world would be corrupt. With out school people wouldn't be smart and they would learn anything. If people didn't learn anything they wouldn't be able to get a decent job and the economy would be destroyed. If people didn't get jobs there would be a lot of homeless people and the world would probably be competition. The world would turn in to a world of the best fit and if you couldn't be the best fit then you would not exist. Also not trying to be mean but a lot of people would probably end up looking like this :