Calista+Sewell

﻿Rambling Auto Biography

When I was born, we lived in a small house in Georgia. In the house was my father, mother, sister, two dogs, and myself. I loved living right across from my best friend. I went to a preschool with her that now, none of my friends have heard of. After Marietta First Babtist, for kindsergarten I went, being ready for something new, to American Heritage Academy. Before I turned five, we moved to Canton, Georgia. At AHA I made good friends, whom i still keep in touch with today. One of my favourite memories from AHA was second grade year. One the first day, we met our teacher and chose our seats. I remember me and Harry, one of my best friends, making sure we were sitting next to eachother and being so ready for the new year. After fourth grade, we moved to Marietta. I went to Mt. Bethel Christian Academy from fifth to eighth grade. For highschool I will be attending Wheeler Highschool. I am glad that many of my friends from Mt. Bethel will be joining me there.

My House

My house is on Hitchcock Mill Run. My family and I moved there when I was ten. We have lived there for four years. I live a block away from the pool and tennis courts. There are lots of kids in Princeton Mill. My best friend Shelby lives just four blocks away. My friends like to come hangout at my house and go to the pool. My house is a home to six people, and one dog. I love my home because it fits all of us perfectly.

Trembling down the path, the old, blind man searched everywhere. The hunch backed, timeworn man, tapping his stick along the footpath, rummaged for his vanished eyes. Wearing his only pair of shoes, and a ragged old cloak, he repeated something only if you were close enough, you could hear it. It was something about losing his eyes to helping England and King George…

9."Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.” - Victor Hugo If someone were to look at your music collection right now, they would probably know a great deal about who you are. Individuals are drawn to music, and each song conveys something about that person. Select a musical piece to be your theme song. Tell us what it would be, and more specifically, why it represents who you are. - (University of Georgia)

 “Music is the universal language of mankind" The music on my playlist expresses me and what I feel inside. If I had a theme song to play where ever I go, it would undeniably be “If I Had You” by Adam Lambert. I love how there are ways to see life in the lyrics. “And I'm working my strut but I know it don’t matter. All we need in this world is some love” When I read this, it speaks to me saying that you do not need materialistic items to be happy, but all you really need is someone to love or someone that loves you. This stanza represents how I am not a very materialistic person and that I appreciate having friends and family to love. If this song was playing when I walked down the street, I would definatly be working my strut and not caring about what people were thinking about me. When I was little a was quite and conserved through sixth grade. In seventh and eighth grade I started being my self and not caring what people thought, but I still did not want to stand out like some of the girls in the grade. I am glad that I have people that love me for being me. In the next line, “But if I had you, that would be the only thing I'd ever need. Yeah if I had you, then money, fame and fortune never could compete.” I read it as you do not need a lot of special people, but really only one. Also, nothing could ever compare to that one person. I am fortunate to have alot of people in my life that are priceless to me and I would not trade them for anything.”If I had you, life would be a party…” In this stanza, I hear that you should try to live your life to its fullest because if you do not then you might miss out on something big. Also I try to have fun with everything I do and try not to be a negative person. I would want this song to be my theme song because it has a very positive meaning and beat to it. It represents me on how I see life. I veiw this song as it does not matter who you are and what you look like, but we can all get together and have fun. I try not to judge people on their beliefs or looks because we are all equal. In life, we should all try to love one another and be positive. I chose "If I Had You" because of the meaning to the song. The meaning can be viewed in many ways but I view it as that you only need in life, besides essentials to live, is love. You need love because it is love that keeps people going in life.

SAT Essay Prompt

In the past, I had a chance to go white water rafting. I had an awesome time until the end when I fell off into the freezing cold water. I felt misrable for the rest of the day and ended up getting sick. This summer I was given another chance to go again. When I was making my decision, the memory came to mind. I chose not to go. My past interefered with having tons of fun. The raft did not tip over and the water was above freezing. If I had forgotten about my past, I could have gotten a better memory to replace the bad one.

Memories are sometimes set-backs to our lives. When I was little, I had a friend but she was always mean. After the end of first grade, I slowly became distant with her. Durring second grade, my friends and I would stay away from her because we thought she was so awful. In third grade, my friends started hanging around her and said she was nice when you got to know her. I did not believe them, seeing that I had known her once. At a later point in the year, the whole grade was invited to her birthday party. At the party she was really nice and was fun to be around. My memories had interfered with a new friendship. In life, sometimes you must forget about the past in order to have success.

When my mom signed up for YWA, I was angry because she did not ask me if I wanted to do this. I really did not want to come because I would be missing half of Band Camp. I ended up having some fun and meeting some very interesting people at YWA. I probably even learned some writing skills. I do not like to write. I will if I have to but I would chose not to. I am fine with taking notes, but when I have to think about what to write, I do not know where to begin. People think it is easier to write since I like to read, but it is not because I can not think of anything that I have not heard in a book. I find writing about myself the most challenging because I do not like writing about myself. Most enjoyable writing is fiction, where you can think of your own story and I get to make the rules about it. The easiest writing is captions for pictures because you can look at the picture and sometimes think of your own story for it or creativly write what is going on in the picture. Some tools that i learned while here were brush strokes, introductions, and zoom lenses. Brush strokes have helped me the most this week. I am most proud of my college essay because it is a question used for people going into college. I know that my writing is not at college level but it will one day be. In order to improve next year's academy, I would try and make tge classroom less cold or go outside more. Overall I really liked the class and I am glad I took it.