Ladies and Gentlemen, Your Top Ten!

1. Speaking in front of the school as a “Poetry Out Loud” finalist my sophomore year! Even though I didn’t win it, or go any further in the competition, speaking acted as, “simply something to put on” my resume for college applications (Lahiri 29).

2. Receiving my first A on an A.P. English 11 assignment. I thought no way possible for me to get A’s on assignments. I normally get back essays and such and, “frown; as usual, there’s something missing” (Lahiri 1).

3. Having Mr. Immarino come into a class to tell me I was a “Student of the Semester”. Well. I guess that changed my perspective on teachers, “they aren’t monsters” (Kesey 59).

4. Opening up my acceptance letter to Syracuse University, I will never forget that moment! It felt like dreaming, I was me, in the dream, and then again kind of like I wasn’t me-like I was somebody else that looked like me (Kesey 112).

5. Listening to Mr. Salyers speak about Africa…every single day. Inspiring, but also really heart breaking that “This world…belongs to the strong”, when so many people remain so weak all around the world (Kesey 64). I must say however, I am nervous going into an A.P. test that focuses on America…not Africa.

6. Making the Blog Banter for my first time. Although I must confess, it was a letdown when I made it for my pictures and not my actual writing. but still I made it, “I call that business” (Wilde 3).

7. Facing Thomas in the note card, character debate for Everything Matters. I mean really, “I should just k-k-kill myself” (Kesey 68).

8. Getting asked to join the “Super Intendent’s Advisory Committee”. I thought to myself, “That wouldn’t at all be a bad thing” (Wilde 6).

9. Finishing my very first Data Sheet in A.P. English class. After working nonstop on the homework for days I just sat by the computer, “eyes filling with tears.”I cannot”” do this I repeated (Lahiri 6)! The pain did subside eventually though, and putting that book of a project on Ms. Serensky’s desk felt so rewarding!

10. Watching “Cane Toads” in A.P. Environmental Science. That movie was just plain old strange. I guess the focus was on invasive species. These Cane Toads completely took over towns, with graphs and scientific projections the narrator explained, “What could happen to them someday” (Kesey 18).