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I was born June 12, 2006 at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills, California. I was born via c-section at 12:33 pm. My mom had a scheduled c-section because my brother was an emergency c-section. When my parents brought me home my older siblings were ecstatic to see me.

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In August of 2008, my parents enrolled me in swim lessons at our local YMCA. My brother had been doing lessons and I was always there, so they decided to have me join him. After starting lessons I continued on to join a Catholic League for my Church, then a club team, and finally the High School swim team. I still very much enjoy swimming and practice almost every day of the week.

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On May 10, 2014 I had my First Communion at Saint Francis de Sales School. We practiced every Sunday to prepare. I was very excited to do first communion because it felt like to me that I was becoming a real part of the Church because I was taking the Body of Christ. I was very nervous but was ready to take the next step in the Catholic Church. I was so excited that it took me 4 months to pick a First Communion dress and many, many alterations to make it perfect.

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On May 7th, 2016 my older sister graduated from Pointloma College in San Diego with her teaching degree. My whole family travelled to go see her. We stayed in San Diego for about a week, and it was really nice to spend time with her because we only saw her at Christmas and summer break. She showed us around all of San Diego and we went to the beach many times.

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On June 7th, 2017 I graduated from Colfax Charter Elementary School. We spent weeks preparing the ceremony and I was very excited. My parents and siblings all came for my graduation. We celebrated at our house for a few hours after and my parents gifted me my very first phone.

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In August of 2017 I attended my first day of middle school at Walter Reed Middle School. I was very nervous but also excited for the new chapter in my life. While I was walking into school I spotted two of my friends and found out we had the same first period. It was a huge change for me because it was my first time using a locker and switching classes and teachers.

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On December 6th, 2017, I had my first ever choir concert. I joined choir as an easy A class. I was extremely nervous for our first performance because I did not consider myself a good dancer nor singer. My friends helped me get excited and prepared and I ended up having a lot of fun. It was after this concert that I decided to choir for the rest of middle school.

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In December of 2018 I had my first ever show choir concert where we had full dance routines while singing. Unlike my first regular choir concert I was not nervous at all for this performance. When I was backstage with my friends as well as onstage performing I had so much fun and was ecstatic to perform again.

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In December of 2019 we had our very last choir concert. At the time we had no idea that it would be our final one. Since in my choir class I was one of the ‘class officers’ I hosted our winter concert. I was very nervous to do this because I never had a solo or had to talk to a crowd by myself. While walking out to introduce the first act I was shaking slightly, but after I did it I realized it wasn’t that big of a deal. I was able to have fun with the announcing and had a great time with all my friends and classmates.

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In May of 2020 I got my letter saying that I was accepted into Notre Dame. I was extremely excited and couldn’t wait to attend the school. My brother was about to graduate and I was very happy to be attending the same school he went to. I couldn’t wait to pick my class schedule, join clubs, get my hoodie, and join the school swim team.

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In March of 2021, we got the email saying that Notre Dame High School would be switching to hybrid. This meant that I would attend my first ever High School classes in person for two days each week. I was very excited to see the friends I made, my teachers, and to be back in the classroom. I struggled a lot with online learning and being back in the classroom has helped me a lot.