First week of Senior Year

Wow! It's already been a week at Rampart High School and it's been pretty good! It's different from Hope International School in Cambodia, 1. It's like 4+ times the size of Hope (1700 in high school), 2. Lunches are actually pretty good here and reasonable. 3. different teaching style, 4. Strict rules on tardiness.

The school is more diverse than I expected it to be, I met a half black half white student, Koreans, Mexican, etc... And some of the students are military kids and have travelled to different places! I wouldn't say I've made 'friends' yet, but I have met people and know who they are. I still sit alone at lunch, which isn't bad because then I could finish early and do other stuff. I am getting along well with people. I have a couple of group projects coming up so we'll see how that fans out. 

My classes and teachers are really nice and understanding of my situation.

My classes are…

IB HL Biology

IB HL History of Americas

IB HL English Literature

IB SL Math Studies

IB SL Spanish Ab

IB SL Business Management

Guided study hall
ToK

There are have been some changes to the classes I take because of complications faced. 

I didn't realize how intense Hope was until I came here. In quite a bit of classes I'm 'ahead' in them as we have covered the topics already. Its going to be a good time to revise and brush up rough edges. There is also some work that I have to catch up on. It's a mix, but it's not going to be as intense as Hope was. 

Now the lunches! It's pretty good, there's a variety of choices, there are burgers, nachos, pizza, and subs mainly, which all come with a free vegetable bar! The prices are also reasonable.

This is the sub! Not as good as subway or fatboys but not too far! 

And the nachos! Yum!!! It's so unhealthy though! 

About the tardiness, unlike Hope where you can just get a late pass stating whatever and handing it to the teacher, the policy at Rampart is stricter. If your late you are marked absent and then the teacher informs the office that you have made it and are late then you have to go to this attendance office and do some stuff. I don't know how accurate that is, because I haven't been that late, however it is a lengthy process. Pretty crazy! 

Here are some pictures I took around the school. 

This the soccer (football) and American football field. 

The cafeteria! 

From the parking lot, this is the view of the school. 

Thank you to all of those who take the time to read it! I'll probably post once a week or so.
God Bless! 

Update in Colorado

Wow! Can’t believe I am actually here in Colorado and it’s only been about a few days. Things are a bit hectic, before we started school, we aren’t even sure what school we are going to. No internet, no cable, and not very much food. 

These past couple of days, I have some pretty serious jet lag. Yesterday (my time) I was up since 2am and manage to stay up most of the day with a nap. Today I was up at 3, and kept waking up. Luckily, my dad has been making some starbucks for us! 

About the schooling. There are two different schools, one is Air Academy and we would take AP and Honors. The other is Rampart and thats the IB school. There are other schools but those are the ones in our district. The first day we got here, we had signed up at Air Academy, in case the IB school didn’t work out. Then just yesterday my dad contacted the IB school and it turns out, it’s less complicated then I thought, but still complicated! The co-ordinator has to just get the details done. We haven’t transferred yet, so we are still enrolled at Air Academy. 

The issue with the IB school is that they don’t IB Business Management HL, so Serah and I have to do one of our SL courses at HL level. But now I have to choose another SL level, since we did the switching of group 3 and group 6. 

We will see how that goes. 

Anyways, we haven’t had any fast food here, we’ve been cooking our dinners, and basically skipping lunch. The air is so dry up here I’ve been forced to drink water and luckily there’s this water that I actually like, lol! 

There’s an update so far, and here are some pictures of what I’ve seen and just around! Thank you guys! 

 Saw some deer! I think these are mule deers so they are smaller. 

18

WOW! Still can't believe I'm 18, yet nothing has really happened. This year I was thinking and planning a small get together after church and not make my birthday a big deal. However, this summer we've been hit with sudden news with us moving back to the states, so my birthday became a bigger deal than expected.

Anyways, I'm 18. God has blessed me with 18 years of life. It's all gone by extremely quickly, I feel like I was just a child yesterday.

This is when I was just adopted into my family. I don't remember much from China or anything. I was a very chubby Chinese girl. 

This was probably when I was in second grade. See the difference? I remember we would love to go to the park and play around. This picture was taken when I was out with my two older sisters with my mom. We use to have our daughter and mother outings and bible studies. I don't remember the details, but I know I had fun! On the playgrounds my favorite parts would the be the swings. They still are when I go the parks! 

This was when we came back to America after a short while in Cambodia. This picture was taken when we were baptizing my little sister. I was probably 13(?). 

These pictures are me within the past couple of years. There isn't too much change in appearance, but I feel like I've changed in maturity. When you get older. you don't really recognize too much change in physical appearance but you start to notice a change inside of you. 

This is the change in me from the past 18 years that I can remember. 

More about this you can read at: http://childoftheking-maggie.blogspot.com/