Class Yearbook- Period 1 (11th grade) by Olivia Wallace

Mrs. Wallace

oliviawallace1 — 2024-05-28 17:34:04 UTC

Mini story: When I was 15, my neighbor called the cops on me for breaking into my own house. I walked out to guns pointed, a helicopter, and 6 police cars.

3 boring facts: I have never broken a bone, cottage cheese grosses me out, and I hate the sound/feeling of chalk

2 recommendations: A film directed by Taika Waititi called JoJo Rabbit and a novel called The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobskey

1 quote I love: "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)" -Walt Whitman OR (I can't pick one) "We accept the love we think we deserve"- Stephen Chobskey

Ahmed Bajwa

2024-08-20 16:19:19 UTC

Mini story: My flight in russia was delayed a ton, and I didn't know why. Then a week later I found out it was because there was a hurricane at the time, and I was too sleepy to tell.

3 boring facts: I work a lot, I speak two languages fluently (trying to learn 2 more), and also hate cottage cheese

2 recommendations: The Office, Borat

1 quote I love: "Whether you think you can or you think you can't--you're right."

-Henry Ford

Apollo Jaan

2024-08-20 16:19:44 UTC

Me on the left:

Mini Story: I was in a floaty donut in the ocean one time and I got hit by a wave. Since I was sitting on top, it flipped over and held me down from getting out, so I was stuck underwater for a solid minute.

3 Boring Facts:

I don't like bitter melon

I am a younger brother

I've lived in Japan for 2 years

2 Recommendations:

Scythe

Jane Eyre

Quote:

"It is ordinary to love the beautiful, it is beautiful to love the ordinary." -A random reel on Insta

Alex Lingerfelt

2024-08-20 16:19:47 UTC

Story: Two days before the first day of school, I was on the football team. Throughout the preseason I didn't try too hard during practice, but finally decided to try my best when going through a certain drill. Unfortunately, the one drill I decided to try my best in later led to me breaking my leg...two days before the first day of school.

3 boring facts: I've been to Ohio this summer, eaten at a Waffle House in Indiana, and my favorite restaurant chain is Culvers.

2 recommendations: The books Brave New World and the memoirs of Richard Nixon.

Quote I like: "Nothing is impossible to them who will try" -- Alexander the Great

Grace Li

2024-08-20 16:22:26 UTC

Mini Story: I once tripped on the sidewalk in D.C. because I thought an ambulance was coming at me, so I spent the rest of the day at the Smithsonian with a bloody elbow.

3 Boring Facts: I was born in Kansas, I have never broken a bone, and I play piano

2 Recommendations: The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec and the Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee

1 Quote I Love: "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost

Kyson L

2024-08-20 16:23:38 UTC

Mini story: A long time ago, I went on vacation to a famous lake in Japan with an island in the center. We had to take a boat to the center, but instead of taking the sightseeing boat which toured the area, we took the standard ferry and were stuck on the island for 2 extra hours.

3 boring facts: I like blue, I dislike chocolate, and I like to read maps.

2 recommendations: Elemental (Pixar), City of Ember (novel series)

1 quote I love: "The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

Georgia Berumen

2024-08-20 16:24:09 UTC

Mini story: When I was 2, I stood up on top of a chair at my dining table then fell back on my head, and got a concussion.

3 boring facts: I have never been stung by a bee, I have never gotten a bloody nose, and I hate seafood.

2 recommendations: Love Island, The Secret History

1 quote I love: "The secret of getting ahead is getting started" -Mark Twain

Lolo Stringer

2024-08-20 16:24:11 UTC

Mini story: When I was in first grade it was the first day of school and only ten minutes had passed into lunch when I was going to the playground with one of my friends and I ran straight into a pole and had to miss the next three days of school and I had a black eye for two weeks. That was my first black eye.

3 facts: I've been to 12 countries, I play soccer and lacrosse, I have an older brother

2 recommendations: The book shatter me, The movie the notebook

1 quote I love: "Its better to have loved and lost then to never loved at all"

Rainie Y

2024-08-20 16:24:17 UTC

Mini Story: I had a pet turtle in elementary school that escaped from my backyard. It was a lot faster than turtles are made out to be.

3 Boring Facts: I fence saber, I have a cat and a dog, and I'm allergic to animals

2 Recs: The novel Stone Blind (Greek Mythology) + Film called The Grand Budapest Hotel directed by Wes Anderson

1 Quote: "A dead end is just a good place to turn around" - Naomi Judd

Evan Lee

2024-08-20 16:24:19 UTC

Mini story: One day a year or so back I walked into a wall and said sorry thinking it was a person.

3 boring facts: I'm awake more than I'm asleep, I skateboard, I went outside during the summer

2 recommendations: A manga called "Horimiya" and a song "Under the Bridge" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

1 quote I love: "“To die, to sleep – to sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there's the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…” - Hamlet

Vansh Bhavsar

2024-08-20 16:24:23 UTC

Mini Story: In 7th grade, I was cutting a peach with a knife, and I hit the seed so the knife went straight into my index finger. This resulted in me getting a huge cut, which I realized after seeing blood on the floor.

3 boring facts: I like the smell of gasoline, hate when people chew loudly, and hate bananas.

2 recommendations: Home Alone - Chris Columbus, and Wonder - R.J. Palacio

1 quote I love: "He who sweats more in training bleeds less in battle." - George S. Patton Jr.

Ken Sheng

2024-08-20 16:24:52 UTC

Mini Story: I was going for a swim sometime in third grade with my dad, who thought that it was a good idea to wrap me up in a large towel while I was standing on a chair. I proceeded to lose my balance and have my head hit the concrete floor.

3 boring facts: Mandarin's my mother tongue, I keep sleeping too late, and I'm excited for junior year.

2 recommendations: The Matrix series and 1984

Quote: "Be the change that you want to see" -Ghandi

Chloe Chen

2024-08-20 16:25:03 UTC

Mini story: Hamsters are notcturnal. But, when I was younger, I unknowingly forced by pet hamster to be awake during the day so I could play with him.

3 boring facts: I have two pet guinea pigs, I have been to paris twice, I love going to the beach

2 recommendations: Two books tittled Song of Achilles written by Madeline Miller and Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

1 quote I love: "When in doubt, look intelligent" - Garrison Keillor

Salena Somalraju

2024-08-20 16:25:28 UTC

Mini Story: When I was 7 years old, I went to Lake Tahoe with my cousins. We went on the snowy mountains on Lake Tahoe and there was an unleashed dog (German Shepherd). I was extremely scared since I had a phobia of dogs, so I ran away and it began to chase me, which made me run even faster. I ended up tripping on a rock which led to my ankle being injured.

3 Boring Facts: I used to live in New Jersey, I used to play tennis, and I've also never broken a bone.

2 Recommendations: A TV series by Graham Yost titled Silo and another TV series directed by Michael Schur called The Good Place.

1 Quote I love: "And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision" -Paulo Coelho

Aryaman Jain

2024-08-20 16:25:38 UTC

Mini Story: When I was 10, I was on my bike racing with my friends. I tried overtaking one of my friends on a thin sidewalk, fell, and couldn't move my arm for a week afterward.

3 boring facts: I like sleeping, don't like yogurt, and I'm getting my driver's license soon.

2 recommendations: A film directed by Christopher Nolan called Inception and a book named Scythe by Neal Shusterman.

1 quote I love: “Time waits for no one.” - Geoffrey Chaucer

Claire Liu

2024-08-20 16:25:53 UTC

Mini story: One time the power went out at home so I thought a burglar broke in, I then crawled under the bed and hid there for 4 hours.

Boring facts: I don't react to jump scares, I have a brother, I hate fuzzy clothes

2 recs: The Breakfast Club, Everything I Never Told You (Celeste Ng)

1 quote: "I wake to sleep, and take my walking slow." - The Waking, Theodore Roethke

Aaron

2024-08-20 16:26:05 UTC

Mini Story: Every halloween me and my brothers used to dress up as different trios until our fourth brother was born. We did costumes like minions, marvel superheroes, Mario, Luigi, and toad

3 boring facts: I don't like tomatoes, I like spending time with old people, I have 3 other brothers

2 recommendations: spongebob, amazing world of gumball

1 quote I love: "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take"

Ani Babu

2024-08-20 16:26:30 UTC

Mini Story: I slightly impaled myself on the fly rail in the theatre while working the dance concert last year. I have a very cool scar down the middle of my torso now.

3 boring facts: My favorite ice cream is mint chocolate, my favorite color is purple, and I have a lamp shaped like a goose.

2 recommendations: "Want" by Cindy Pon and "Anne of Green Gables" by L. M. Montgomery.

A quote I like: "They searched for blue their whole life through, then passed right by-- and never knew" - Shel Silverstein

Ria Kupumbati

2024-08-20 16:26:32 UTC

Mini Story:

When I was in fourth grade I went to the beach and one of my friends accidentally got on a boogie board on top of me while I was underwater, so I almost drowned.

3 boring facts:

I have a brother, my favorite color is blue, I want a dog

2 recommendations:

Love Island and the book series Caraval

1 quote I love:

“If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” —Steve Jobs

Joshua Mo

2024-08-20 16:26:37 UTC

Mini story: One day when I was in second grade, I tripped and rolled down a staircase. Luckily it was covered in carpet so I didn't get hurt too much.

3 boring facts: I don't like insects, I prefer fruits to vegetables, I was in Boston for July

2 recommendations: The movie Interstellar and the novel We Are Not Free by Traci Chee

1 quote I love: "I think, therefore I am."

Adithi Aia

2024-08-20 16:26:59 UTC

Mini story: I once tripped and landed perfectly on a small crack in the tile. Now I have a permanent scar on my knee.

3 boring facts: I have a younger sister, my favorite color is blue, and my favorite flavor of ice cream is cookies and cream.

2 recommendations: The novels "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini and "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech.

1 quote I love: "Either you run the day or the day runs you" - Jim Rohn

Kara Niho

2024-08-20 16:27:16 UTC

Mini story: I went to a friend's birthday party at a trampoline park. On the giant trampoline, I attempted to do a backflip and I broke my nose by hitting myself with my knee.

3 boring facts: I have traveled out of the country twice, I have an older sister, and I play basketball

2 recommendations: A film by Peter Weir called Truman Show and a show called How I Met Your Mother

1 quote: "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." -Vince Lombardi

Kevin

2024-08-20 16:27:22 UTC

Mini story:

I took a course called Human Trafficking this summer at Harvard Summer School, and had my mind blown.

3 boring facts:

I am not a native English speaker; I love country and folk music;

2 recommendations: an American crime drama miniseries: Unbelievable. a novel: Educated: A Memoir

1 quote I love:

Practice makes progress, not prefect

Django Marshall

2024-08-20 16:29:11 UTC

Mini story: After wofo last year, I arranged for my friend group to meet at my house for a small after party. However, one of my friends got to my house before me and decided he would just let himself in. The only issue was my mother was sick in bed at the time and I hadn't told her that I was having friends over. She then called to tell me that someone had broken into our house. My friend then tried to bake some bread for some reason which confused my mother even more because the home intruder was now trying to use her kitchen.

3 boring facts: I was born in England, I own two dogs, and tomatoes used to make me throw up.

2 recommendations: The Haunting of Hill House, A hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy.

1 quote I love: "If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change. Hooo." -Michael Jackson/Batman

Emma Saighani

2024-08-20 16:29:39 UTC

Mini story: At one of my childhood birthday parties, it was at a jump house and my younger cousin broke her leg going down the slide and went to the hospital.

3 Boring Facts: I'm an only child, I wasn't on a plane until I was 14 & I don't like sushi

2 Recommendations: The movie Hidden Figures and Dune P1 & P2

Quote: "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up" - Thomas A. Edison

Lisa Li

2024-08-20 16:29:52 UTC

Mini story: When I was in first grade or something, I once stuck my hands in a sliding door at a mall. I ended up with no juries, but this thing definitely freaks my parents out.

3 boring facts: I have never broken a bone, I have two cats, and I hate hiking.

2 recommendations: The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton & The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer.

1 quote I love: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Ganhi

Arya Kunnothmannur

2024-08-20 16:31:19 UTC

Mini story: I was in gymnastics when I was younger, but I was always scared of the balance beam. One day we had to do a cartwheel on a balance beam that was closer to the floor, but I was too scared so the instructor has to forcibly hold me and turn me on the beam to do the cartwheel.

3 boring facts: I'm an only child, I have a cat, I was born in Boston

2 recommendations: The movie La La Land and the book The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

A Quote I Love: I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine." - Neil Armstrong

Nathan Soller

2024-08-20 16:32:02 UTC

Mini story: One day, during a science study session, my best friend would not pick up the phone, so I called her 108 times in twenty minutes and temporarily broke both of our phones.

3 boring facts: I started a nonprofit organization with my two friends, I co-started a movie club at this school, and I have been playing piano for almost eleven years.

2 recommendations: A film directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert called Everything Everywhere All at Once and a TV show called Succession.

1 Quote I like: "All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." -Walt Disney