First of all,
thanks Brice& Daniel for your email, even though I think about everyone recieves one it just gave me the boost I needed to introduce myself.

I lack the skills in writing a good essay, kind of the reason why I didn’t write anything the last time I got on plus I was intimidated since everyone else’s post I had read were in college or graduated from college. If you can’t already tell by my lack of a decent vocabulary, I may be the youngest in this group. So enough of that..let me start

My name is Isabel and I’m a senior in high school. O8 yes! Just for the record I’m nothing like the kids in my school, it seems so naive of me to say this but moving around has forced me to grow up sooner? I’m not sure if anyone has experienced that. Well my mother is Singaporean (most people don’t know where that is which is really sad) and my father is Chilean. Thanks to my mother I look like I should be in middle school (asians generally look younger) How my parents met is still a mystery to me. But I am a U.S citizen even though I don’t feel like I am. My great grandmother (moms side) was Indian, my grandma (mom’s side again) was chinese and my grandpa is malaysian. Interesting fact- I was born on September 11, amazingly I turned 11 on the same day as the twin towers. I am also a muslim..My first language is english, then it’s spanish and I understand malay pretty well, It’s always been easy for me to pick up other languages or at least understand them like french and portugues I can pick up some words. I didn’t mean that to brag but living overseas I got use to it.

Oh geez, there I go rambling on again. Well, I was born in Laffayette, Lousiana and after 4 years my family decided to move to Indonesia. I lived in Jakarta for six years. I loved Jakarta, past the pollution and the poverty of course. “Archipelago” was one of the first words I ever learned and all my friends were international, mostly australian or fillipino. Being a muslim was easy over there, it was common and I looked like them. I’ve got my father’s tan skin and my mom’s asian eyes so I fit right in. Unfortunetly we moved right after my birthday to Spain. Now Spain, I won’t lie was gorgeous. We lived in Madrid and if you don’t know already they are very loud, in my opinion a bit rude and they spoke castellano. At that time I only knew bahasa and english so it was difficult especially going to a public school which was only taught in spanish. It made me become fluent in spanish. We lived there for two and a half years before we moved again. Seeing my house empty was becoming a routine. While living in those two places we travelled alot, like when we lived in Spain I was able to visit France, England, Italy etc.. and Indonesia the same thing. We then moved to Ecuador, Quito. We lived up in the Andes one of my friends even owned a Llama which sounds crazyy. While I was living there I met more international kids, a former classmate that I knew in Jakarta moved there, which was exciting at first. I even met a man who had decided to walk from the tip of south america all the way to the north of canada , he had reached ecuador the time I met him, meaning he had walked all those miles. During our stay in Ecuador, we got robbed, they stole about 15,000$ worth of stuff plus my mother’s engagement ring. Shortly after that we moved to the US, Texas.

And I’ve only been here for a year. But it is really different, I think most of the kids in my school are really close minded and materialistic, it frustrates me. Living outside of the states has left me oblivious of cliques, I never had any of those problems growing up. I’ve always respected my teachers and students here are sleeping or talking back to them. it was just a major culture shock, no mountains, no tourists (haha). Maybe its only in texas, they are really proud. I have never seen so many tshirts made or ever had homecoming, or seen an american football game, I didn’t know you could drive at 15? I was so out of place.

But I definetly love being international, I can’t wait to travel again, I hope to do this once I get into college(travel). Sorry if I chose the wrong group, I was’t very sure which one to pick, especially since I wasn’t sure what an “army brat” was.

Um, Academically because I have lived in different places has helped me A LOT, thank god. I am historian for NHS this year, woo! I’ve been in NHS since sophmore year which I am proud to say. But unfortunetly I have been having great difficulty getting into college. Especially since texas is based on the rank of your grade in high school. It’s so unfair, I am competing against 1000 other kids who have been here their whole lives and have had the advantage of takin AP courses, ok well I’ll stop complaining and I’ll ask “Uncle dan” later

thats pretty much my intro
Have a Merry Xmas everyone!!

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