My Journey

  • birth

    birth
    I was born 3 days before my mother
  • got a cat

    got a cat
    I got my cat when I was almost 3. He was a rescue stray and we love him.
  • Got a dog

    Got a dog
    I got my dog a little after I got my cat. She was also a rescue and we got her from a family friend.
  • switch to public school

    switch to public school
    I switched to public school in 5th grade. This was a very big change for me and it was really scary. I made really good friends and I grew a lot.
  • Friendly

    Friendly
    Around this time I started gaining friends at my new school. At my private school I only had a handful of people so I was friends with everyone. This school was different and was larger and harder to make friends.
  • helpful

    helpful
    During this time, a lot of things were up in the air and hard for everyone. My dad had just retired so he was bored at home and my mom works at the hospital so she had to go in a lot more. I tried to help out around the house a lot because I wasn't doing anything else. I was also trying to make everyone feel comfortable and okay with everything
  • Emotional intelligent

    Emotional intelligent
    I was also dealing with a lot during covid because I was thinking about who I wanted to be and who I was. I think that journaling and seeing and talking to my friends really helped me a lot. I think that this was really important because it helped me process a lot of things.
  • Time management

    Time management
    During this time I was very focused on making new friends, keeping my old friends, and my schoolwork. I was also thinking about how I can keep connections while also building new ones that where just as strong. I think this taught me a lot about how to manage my time.
  • 8th grade grad

    8th grade grad
    I graduated 8th grade very excited to go to high school and excited for summer. I thought that I would make it through high school with all of my middle school friends
  • Italy trip

    Italy trip
    My trip to Italy was very eventful, I tried to do as much as I could while seeing everything I wanted to. This was my first time out of the country and I loved it. I was very interested in everything because I am Italian so this is a big part of who I am.
  • went to varsity campus

    went to varsity campus
    I was really nervous at first but I loved the football games and went to almost all of them.
  • family oriented

    family oriented
    I think that family is a really important part of my life and I like to put them first. I went to a family party the other day just to be around them and see them.