04 January 2011
The question for the week regards...free will. I've already (or will, depending on when you read this) ask you how much control YOU FEEL YOU HAVE in your life, and I've already asked you (see above), but now I want to know some actual examples. Give me an example of an event that you believe was FATED to happen.
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My family moved out of our school district to a different part of town during the sumer before my 5th grade year. Because of this, I found out about the middle school where I wound up meeting my best friends. And then I found out about LASA while at the middle school. I'm much happier because of the change of school district, and I can't imagine life without my friends. I think that move, crazy as it sounds, was fated. If you want another way of looking at it, as a 10-year-old, I had no say in the matter.
ReplyDeleteCallie Stribling, 1/2
Although I would normally argue that nothing is predetermined, I feel that some things are fated to happen simply due to the odds being overwhelmingly in their favor. . There are, by astronomers estimates, 10^21 stars in the universe. Even if half of them were orbited by no planets and the rest were orbited by only one, that's 5e20 planets. Of the 429 planets known to man, 2 (Earth and Gleise 581 g) are considered capable of supporting life. While this appears to be a small number, when you consider that it means .0046 of 5e20 planets are capable of supporting life, its development seems almost certain.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'm not sure what formatting to use to bold font in comments.
Eric Empson 1/2
Facebook has taken over the world. This was destiny. Not specifically it would be Facebook to hit the million dollar mark but that some social networking site would become huge around the world. With the internet being as vast as it is, a large social networking site was bound to occur. It was fate. Facebook was a lucky hit amongst everyone around the world.
ReplyDeleteMakala Kuhr 1/2
ReplyDeleteLooking back at the court case we watched in class, I remember the lawyer speaking saying that the boys' actions could quite possibly be the parents or families fault. With this in mind I remembered what one of my biggest dreams that is now almost a reality; become a pilot. This is something I never really considered until the summer in between 6th and 7th grade. At this time, we began to take frequent trips to Kansas City to see our family with a deep history in aviation. Due to my lack of interest before those trips, I believe that even if I only saw my family rarely I would have eventually developed this dream; it was my fate.
ReplyDeleteCaleb Gross 1/2
When I was really little I was at a fair, out of town, with my parents and I got lost from them. I was really freaked out, but then this lady came up to me and helped me to find them again and everything sort of fell into place. I guess I think of fate as being a situation that a person has no control over but that ends up working itself out in the end.
ReplyDeleteAlexa Etheredge 1/2
I guess that my story about fate is similar to Callie's in that during the beginning of my 8th grade year, my parents went to a block party while I was out of town. At the party they met the parent of a LASA student, at the time I thought that I would be going to McCallum. After my parents met that parent we looked further into LASA and that's where I ended up going.
ReplyDeleteRyan Rash 1/2
There are some situations that are too strange to be considered chance. My cousin for example, came to visit us from Costa Rica. On the last day, we drove him to the airport. We loaded his suitcase in the back of our truck and when we took it out, it tore open. My cousin freaked out because he had to catch a flight, but couldn't leave without fixing his suitcase. Then he looked over and on the top of the car next to us, he saw a complete roll of duct tape. My cousin was fated to leave, or at least fated to find duct tape. The chances of him finding it on the next car when he most needed it were too small to be mere coincidence.
ReplyDelete--Sofia Dyer 5/6
About a year ago, one of my best friends moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Over the summer, I had been planning to go on a church conference in Memphis and then go on vacation around Tennessee and the surrounding states with my family. I hoped that maybe we could meet up with my friend while on vacation. But when I arrived in Memphis, I checked Facebook only to see that my friend was visiting Austin while I was in Tennessee. He also got back to Tennessee the day I left. I was very angry and it seemed so perfect (or rather, not perfect) that it must've been planned, like fate.
ReplyDelete---Gabi R. Hadad, 1/2
We all have moments in our lives where we hate our parents and feel that the world just doesn't understand us, we feel like the biggest outcast of the world and we are very lonely.
ReplyDeleteThat time for me was when I was 12.
One day in October my mom and I were going to the store. That day when I got out of the car, next to a bush I saw a small black kitten. I was lucky enough that my family loves animals and my mother told me that if I could catch, it was mine to keep. I did catch it and I still have that cat. But my whole point is that...when I was sad I could talk to that cat and it would listen and pure as to comfort me. I feel that it was fate for me to find that cat and to help me get through that tough period.
Sandra Norwood
Period 1/2
Normally I would argue that all events are fated, because all human reactions happen through a series of chemical reactions, complex although predictable given a large enough machine. Stepping down to a more predictable level, I would say that my coming to school this morning was fated. It was fated last night when I went to bed: There was no question that the alarm would go off. However, I don't believe that it was fated fifteen years ago that this asphyxiating newborn would go to the LASA High School on Thursday, January 6th, 2011.
ReplyDelete- Lane M. Kolbly, 1/2
I generally don't believe in fate, but there is one thing that I came up with after pondering for...okay, I wasn't counting. But a very long time. I think that death is the only thing that is fated. Everyone dies. Every living thing in the world must die at some point. It's a combination of Mother Nature "restraining" every organism and every organism's inability to fight it. It's fate.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I think that anything else (feel free to give counter-examples?) is just coincidence. A really great (or in Gabi's case, unfortunate) coincidence.
~Taylor Treviño, .1/2
This summer my family and I traveled to South Africa to visit family and to because it hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup. We were able to get tickets for a few games, but the one game we wanted to see was Portugal-North Korea which just so happened to be in Cape Town, where all our family lives. The morning of the game we were all at gym complaining about it being sold out when a strange man approached us who recognized my parents from when they all lived in London together. He ended up having tickets to the game that afternoon and took my brother and I with him. It ended up being one of the most entertaining games we saw and that whole experience seemed too lucky to not have been fated.
ReplyDelete-Aiden Kahn, 1/2
My mother is a librarian and my grandmother a retired teacher. This led them to nurture me with a great respect for reading and literature. They always encouraged me to pick up a book -- no matter the subject -- and immerse myself in it. Although I don't remember truly loving reading with a passion growing up, there was a point in fifth grade when I couldn't get enough of it. By the end of that year I remember standing in the school library (where my mother now works) wondering what I was going to read next because it felt as though I had finished all the books in stock that held interest to me. I read books like they were going out of style and that thirst hasn't been quenched since. I believe it to be fate that I would grow to love reading. It would be some cruel joke from the universe if the case were otherwise.
ReplyDeleteJenna Lang 1/2
My grandparents met in Mexico about 50 years. After getting married they were going to fly back to Ecuador until they ran into a group of cattle driving to the airport. They missed the flight but the plane they were supposed to return on crashed and there were no survivors. If it weren’t for those cows, well I wouldn’t be writing this blog right now. In response to Taylor, I doubt that this situation was merely just a coincidence but rather fate.
ReplyDeleteSebastian Canizares 1/2
I think my parents have a really cute love story. They met at the restaurant my dad was working at as a waiter. My mom stood up from eating and ended up knocking him over while he was carrying a serving tray full of food. My mom apologized and left, thinking nothing of what had happened. About a month later my mom was at the grocery store in the checkout line when my dad came up behind her. They only recognized each other as chick who knocked me over" and "clumsy waiter". They made small talk and once again parted ways thinking nothing of the encounter. A little while later they both went to a mutual friend's party. They bumped each other and started talking. After that they went on a couple of dates. And to sound cliched, the rest is history. While their meetings may be coincidence, I believe they were fated to be together.
ReplyDeleteKatelyn Alexander 1/2
ReplyDeleteWell, I do not have any amazing stories about fate crossing my path quite yet. However, right before I got on to answer this question I happened to come across this story of the man with a "golden voice" whom some of you may already know. This man, Ted Williams, who until recently was homeless had as a child gone to meet a radio host who "looked nothing like he sounded". The radio host inspired Williams to do the same (be a radio host that is). So a much younger Williams went off to college to professionally train his voice. However, after college he became addicted to drugs and alcohol and soon after became homeless. For several years now he has been on the street corner begging for money. Eventually he got noticed for a sign he carried mentioning his "golden voice", and when asked he would demonstrate this talent. His voice finally got him off the streets and hes been offered several jobs as a radio host, or even as an announcer for the Cleveland Cavaliers (basketball team for those who don't know). In the end, it was fate that he had such a great voice (college can only do so much), and it was fate that brought him off the streets to become what he started to dream of as a kid. A Radio host. Also I decided that if my explanation of his fate was flawed I'd put up the video for your entertainment. Its:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6kI_u3ho_c
And I guess to add on to everything, it might as well have been fate that I found this video today.
-Christopher Delgado 1/2
I really don't believe in fate, but if there is one instance that sways my belief it would be the instance of my Aunt Whinnie. She had a complication while she was giving birth in a really understaffed rural hospital. It was the middle of the night and no doctors would normally be prepared to preform emergency surgery. But since they had just had a call
ReplyDeleteabout a child being rushed over, they were prepared. And when the doctors learned that he had had died, they were prepared to preform surgery on my aunt. Because this child died en route to the hospital, my aunt and cousin lived.
So I guess you could called that fate
Mo Quinn
5/6
This event of what I believe is fate did not happen to me personally, but rather someone I know. This person's father was out of town on a buisiness trip and was supposed to return after a week, but decided instead to leave on a later flight so that he could go to a Wisconsin cheese factory to try some of their famous cheese. If the father would have proceeded on to the airport to return home that day, he would've had to cross a bridge that ended up collapsing and injuring/killing some people. I think only fate could've spared him.
ReplyDeleteDanielle D
1/2
I'm not a hardcore believer in fate but there was this one instance that changed my mind. Last semester for my birthday I had gotten an new Ipod but I was being kind of reckless with it and not necessarily taking the best of care with it. One day, I was listening to it and I left it on the bus without realizing it and lost my Ipod. I went ballistic trying to find it and I felt really bad that I wasn't responsible for such an expensive device. I had given up the search and two weeks later, on the bus, I found it lying in the middle of the seat. I guess you could say that it was pure luck but I took it as fate giving me a second chance at being more responsible for my belongings.
ReplyDeleteNikita Prasad
5/6
I suppose you could say that my existence depends on fate and the story of my grandparents, who are convinced that their relationship was fated. 53 years ago, my grandmother lived in France and was 24, an age her parents considered already too old for any hope of ever marrying. One evening, my grandmother's sister asked to go to a dance at the local air base, and so their parents sent my grandmother along to chaperone, even though she really didn't want to go. Ironically, that evening at the dance, my grandmother met my grandfather, an American man serving overseas for the U.S. Air Force. They continued to mail each other letters across the world until my grandmother decided to move to the U.S. to marry my grandfather a few years later. So as the two of them always tell me, if my grandmother hadn't gone to that party, they would have never met and I wouldn't be here today, which is something you can definitely call fate.
ReplyDeleteKatie Pastor 5/6
It was the beginning of sixth grade and I was barely making friends at at middle school when my mother told my brother and I that we had to go to Mexico. I was really sad about leaving but my mom told us that her mom was really sick and that we had to go see her before it got worse. After being in Mexico for about two months my grandma passed away. The good thing was that my whole family was there that day to say goodbye and this was something my grandma had always wanted. Even though this was a very hard thing I still think it was fate that brought my family together to make my grandma happy for the last time.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Mendez
1/2
This is such a ridiculously extreme example that I feel a little silly. I'm not necessarily a believer in fate but if there was at least one example of it in my family history then it would have to be my great-great-great grandfather.
ReplyDeleteMy family lived in the South during the Civil war and my great great great grandfather somehow got into a bad situation with the KKK. The story goes that he told my great great grandma and her sister that he was going up the road to visit a farm. When they heard the news that the KKK was out to kill him they decided to run and warn him. On the trip there they came upon a fork in the road and, not knowing which way to turn, took the right. After some time they turned around and came back to the fork in the road before proceeding down the left split. When they found him he'd already been hung, the story goes that he was still warm and twitching, I've always taken this bit with a grain of salt. But the fact still stands that, if my great great grandma had taken the correct road, then my great great great grandfather would have survived.
Kira Strzepa 1/2
As much as my parents tried to tell me that I had a choice of highschools, coming to LASA was pretty much fated to happen. The fact that I chose it myself was made the whole ordeal easier on my parents, who surely would have rejected my decision to go anywhere else. All throughout my Kealing education and the semester of 8th grade that I spent pondering my future highschool, my parents were always there, giving my gentle pushes in the LASA direction. Considering LASA vs. McCallum, LASA just felt like the right place for me, where I could continue in the rigorous education I had had all my life. To chose a school other than a high performing magnet school would be seen as a let down for my parents, who have shaped my beliefs in a way that tells me to always strive for a challenge. In these ways, I feel that my attendance at LASA was fated to happen, and by the same reasons I can predict my attendance of a quality college in a few years.
ReplyDeleteHannah 1/2
My dad was adopted, and in the year 1992, he began the process of finding his birth parents. One day, he was in the records room of the Travis County Courthouse looking through the microfiche. He already had the date of birth of a woman that he believed to be his birth mom and the fact that she was born in Texas. On that day a lady was sitting next to him and she asked him what he was looking for. He said that he was trying to find his birth mom and that he already had a list of Baby Boy et al's. The lady looked at the information he had and told him that it was all wrong because his mother wasn't even born in Texas. She took the list and skimmed it and then pointed to one of the many "baby boy's" and told him that that was him. He thought she was crazy, but she copied down the number and took it to the back and when she returned, she told him to go make copies of the adoption papers. When he finally looked at the papers, it said that his "mother" was actually born in Louisiana. It turned out that this lady was right. My dad found his birth mom and I believe that fate allowed my father to meet this woman.
ReplyDeleteMichaela Boswell 1/2
The only thing that I would consider to have happened by fate in my life is being born. In the fact that I am living, there is no way out of being born. When all the possible paths you can take in life end up at the same place, that is fate. So I guess death is fate for everyone too. This is how I feel so far in my life, but right now, nothing else feels like it was fated to happen.
ReplyDeleteSam Kaspar 5/6
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ReplyDeleteThough people may argue some things are destined to happen, it’s also as easy to argue that every action a person does is in some way changing their fate. Depending on people’s personal opinions on fate some stories inspire people to stop and think, while others just shake their head. Unfortunately the only instance of fate I can think of, could have also just been luck or chance. A few years back, the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis/St.Paul collapsed killing dozens of people. My mother grew up in Minneapolis and was flying back to visit her friends and family on the same day as the bridge’s collapse. My mom’s friend was suppose to pick her up from the air port and then they were going to go to a Minnesota Twins (baseball) game, taking the bridge from the airport to the game. My mom’s flight was delayed so she and her friend subsequently didn’t make it on the road in time, and the bridge collapsed about an hour before they were suppose to cross it. Whether it was fate or just chance, it’s definitely an interesting story to tell at a party.
ReplyDeleteGabby McRoberts 5/6
To tell the truth I really don't beleive in the idea of fate. From what we learned in class fate is essentially that everything that happens in life is more heavily influenced by external forces than the actions one makes. I disagree with that concept. Also, if you beleive that one thing in particular was fated to happen,then you believe in the concept of fate as a whole so you you beleive that everything in life is supposed to happen, so no one instance in particular if everything has a purpose and is fated to happen. I think that of these stories while amazing, are still merely coincidences. Maybe a life-changing experience will happen that will make me beleive in fate, but I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteSometimes things are fated to happen no matter how hard we try to resist, but at that time keep positive and things may just turn out for the best. About four years ago, my older brother adopted a four month old puppy. However I don't think he realized that a puppy needs to eat, sleep and poop, so he ended up dumping her on us. We kept her long enough to get attached, and then my father sold her to one of my grandparents' neighbors. Watching their little girl drag the puppy down the street I knew it was a bad idea, but my father wouldn't listen. Sure enough, a year later they returned the dog because they were moving and didn't want to take her. She returned bone skinny, under grown from being kenneled in a cage too small for her, and the time we had spent disciplining her had gone down the drain. We took her back and exerted our efforts into getting her healthy again. After a year though, she was still undisciplined, chewing up the house and wasn't getting along well with my other dog. So my mother gave her to a family friend. I begged my parents to give her a second chance, but the answer was still no, I had to let her go.
ReplyDeleteNow she is living a spoiled life with a big backyard and a loving family to look after her. Looking back, I realize it was probably fate that I met her. She taught me to let go of things when they are for the best, and she taught me to appreciate life in the present, because you'll never know when things will change.
Amber Mangalindan 5/6
Some people consider any event that is extremely unlikely to be fated to happen, but I believe that it is pure chance. For example, my great grandparents met when they were young children and then met again on a completely unrelated occasion as adults and ended up getting married. This odd occurrence could just as easily been complete coincidence instead of fate. People say that an event like this has a one in a million chance of occurring so it must be fate that made my great-grandparents meet again, but its more likely that they got lucky after 999,999 people met people as kids and never saw them again. We tend to overlook all but the success stories, when really everything is up to chance. It is easy to confuse luck with fate when the “failures” are overlooked.
ReplyDeleteSander Trubowitz 5/6
My Grandma always says that everything turns out for the best. At first I thought that it was B.S. but as I reexamine my life, I find that everything does turn out for the best. For example, I think that something that was fated to happen to me and my family was our move from Massachusetts down here to Texas. I believe that this was fated to happen because my parent's business was getting it's majority of orders from Austin, and opening a retail store, in addition to their website has always been the goal of my Dad. I was not particularly excited about this, for I would leave my awesome house, good friends and snow, but I was not adverse to this change. The move actually turned out to be a great thing. The heavy musical influence in this town prompted me to pickup and learn several instruments including the French horn and Guitar, and the larger school district meant that I had a choice of which high school to go. I believe that all has turned out for the best and that fate brought me to this point.
ReplyDeleteSpencer Neth 5/6
I don't necessarily agree with the concept of being fated to do something. To me fate is a very tenuous notion that ignores free will in a way similar to hard determinism. If I am at the store and I see two colors of nail polish that I want, I'm not necessarily fated to choose purple over gold. I could ask a friend for their opinion, which would be their fate, not mine. Also, like hard determinism fate is impossible to prove. Your parents could claim that meeting in medical school while dissecting cadavers was meant to be, but there is no way to prove it. If they had been in separate classes, or her friends hadn't been assigned to the same cadaver as he was, they may have never met. I feel that fate is nothing more than a path you are set on after making certain decisions. It is still entirely possible to become distracted and wander off of that path onto another one with a different outcome. This may sound a bit like a cop-out, but with something as abstract and hard to prove as fate, you can't have a clear cut definition and must find the best combination of all theories to create a new one that makes sense.
ReplyDeleteShannon Plunkett 1/2
Fate is a concept that I don't believe in. To complete certain actions, such as going to sleep, there are things that we do. We brush our teeth, put on the clothes we sleep in, turn off the lights, get in bed, but these steps are just what we do to get ready for something else we want to have completed. Fate seems like an unreal idea that people made up to feel better about themselves or their future. I think that an event can cause something else, but I do not believe that fate is something real.
ReplyDeletePeople do things that lead to another chain of events, but that doesn't mean someone is fated to do something.
-Emerson Curtis 1/2
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ReplyDeletewell i haven't ran into fate myself but i know of many stories of the homeless may come across money or shelter. for an example there have always been this one homeless man that live on the corner by my house for as long as i can remember. one day it was a really cold day and it has been raining for a weeks. then i have notice while passing the corner he lived on that he wasn't there. it turns out that a family that lives way out in the country owned a little house on their land, and noticed the man with no shelter and food. so they took him in for a little while. i know this story because we would stop buy once a week and give him food and he told us. i don't think there is much fate in the work but i do think what he went through was fate.
ReplyDelete~danni biddle 5/6
An event i believe that was fated to happen occurred last year. I am in student council, and i remember that it was around the time of homecoming. We were having a student council meeting the week of, trying to tie all of the loose ends of the event together.During the meeting, we had talked about additional ways of promoting the event to make sure we had as big of a turn out as possible. One of the ideas was to create a facebook event, but we had not necessarily established who would create the event. That night, the unthinkable happened. Someone (who was not an officer) created the event on facebook and most of the information posted on the page happened to be incorrect. I was in shock and i knew i had to do something about it before too many people either joined the open event, or were invited. Next thing you know, about 200 people were invited to the event. The problem was an officer didnt create it, but a general council member did, which in turn created a big uproar among my fellow officers. I knew i had to do something because the other presidents of student council were asking me what was going on and that i needed to handle the situation. In turn, i immediately asked to be an admin of the group and then deleted it. This seems rude (and in fact it is, but i did what i had to do), but i soon apologized. Turns out the person who did this was a long-time friend and she was deeply upset with the entire situation. For the next few days, we were estranged, and to this day, i think she still holds a grudge about it. In my opinion, i feel like this event occured by fate (and could have been avoided as well) because the matter of who would create the event was not dealt with during the meeting. In turn, feelings were hurt and a frenzy was created (but soon solved).
ReplyDelete-Raeneisha Cole
Since my family is Buddhist, we believe that everything in life is determined by cause and effect. However, this is not necessarily fate because essentially, you get what you give. All that occurs is because of something that you did. I think this makes sense, because everything in nature is based on symmetry, and everything must have balance to it. Despite this, I've always wondered about fate, and what effect it might have on my life. Though I don't believe in fate, there was this one occurrence that made me question if it really existed. Last year, I wanted a job, preferably as a Chinese language tutor. It wasn't just because of the money, but more because I wanted the experience. I didn't feel that I was competent, so I kind of stored this thought into the back of my mind. A couple of months later, a family that moved from Korea offered me a job, through my mom's friend's coworker. I thought that this was a very unlikely incident, but was glad it happened.
ReplyDelete-Michelle Zhang Period 1/2
This past Thursday I was walking home from school and I brushed past an old man getting out of a dark red mazda. He stopped and looked at me for a split second and then turned towards another mazda approaching the convenient store where we were. I never realized that the man I had seen in that brief instant was actually stashing 5000 dollars of heroin. He looked shady though, so I just nodded and continued walking in the direction of the crosswalk.
ReplyDeleteLast night my mom told me that the man I had nearly spoken to that Thursday evening was a 72 year old drug dealer who had been in and out of jail for selling heroin and that behind the dark mazda windshield was an undercover cop who had later arrested the druggy. I don't know what that specific encounter really meant to me or whether it was luck or fate that saved me from a rough escape... but let's just say that I'm lucky fate jumped in when it did.
For more info about this check out the news report:
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/crime/Man-72--busted-for-selling-heroin?CMP=201101_emailshare
- Noe Mina
I believe that some things are just destined to happen. Some people are fated for greatness, and some for tragedy. These things are determined by the course of events that occurs, but it was destined to happen, meaning that it was all a set path that the person followed unknowingly, and there is no way to avoid fate.
ReplyDeleteOn the 28th of July, 2010, a Mexican soccer player, by the name of Javier Hernandez, who goes by Chicharito, made his debut as a player for the English soccer team Manchester United. From the minute he stepped onto the pitch, he was destined for greatness. His father, and his grandfather before him were both professional players, and Chicharito was fated to continue this legacy. But he would go on to further extend this family legacy by making it to the English Premier League, a world-renowned league. Hernandez was one of the first five Mexicans to ever play in the Premier League, and the first Mexican to ever be on Manchester United. He has been becoming a star in England, scoring many goals and helping Manchester United greatly.
From the moment Javier Hernandez signed a contract to play for Manchester United, I believe his fate was to be huge, becoming a star, and an excellent soccer player. I believe that I was fated to see his greatness as well, for when I bought tickets to see Manchester United play, fate had it planned out that I would see Chicharito score one of his best goals yet. This experience is definitely what made me decide to write this response about him, as I would normally never write something for school about sports. I am convinced that Hernandez is an excellent player who's destiny has led him to one of the best soccer teams in the world, and that fate has more greatness in store for him.
-Jesse Moritz, 5/6
I was born and raised in Santiago Chile, but first came to Austin when I was 2 years old. I was prompted to come after my dad had gotten a job here, which rarely allowed him to visit us back home. Despite my dad's job, the rest of my family and I had the option of staying in South America. Instead, we moved to Austin and over the years decided we were staying for good. Us coming here was too much of a coincidence, which is why I see the situation as an act of fate. I could have moved anywhere else in the U.S., or not have moved at all, but we came specifically to Austin. If this decision hadn't been made, I would never have met any of the great friends I now have. I also wouldn't have learned English, and become fluent in it, or be guaranteed a very good education. My life would have been very different, which is why I'm grateful I can now call Austin my home.
ReplyDeleteIvana Correa, 5/6
When I was in fifth grade and thinking about going to Kealing for middle school, I signed up for the shadowing program so I could know what it was like. I happened to shadow a girl who was a violist in beginner orchestra. My friends now would all probably say that I'm really into music, and I was then as well, but I would have never been in orchestra if I hadn't shadowed that particular girl. I probably would have never even learned to play an instrument. Shadowing that girl introduced me to something that I had never even thought of before. Orchestra is now the center of a large part of my life, and I couldn't be more grateful for that "fated" event.
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