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If you've been on this website enough times, you'll know that I change fonts depending on my mood, and so far I've been stuck on: Sacramento, Alegreya, EB Garamond, and Times New Roman.

Now you're looking at Museo Slab font, size 14, colored black with no highlight, arranged to the left side of this page, spaced Single, on my website.

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about.

I'm a coffee addict, dog lover, hard worker (sometimes), chocolate lover, wanna-be photo/videographer, writer, food lover, sister, best friend, and clumsy, stupid, too serious, loyal, trustworthy, COMPASSIONATE, very gullible, athletic, open-minded, impatient, stubborn, imperfect person (who swears too much), whose purpose is to mean something to people.

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more into the logistics...

This website is based on the four-month long second semester of my 10th grade, during which each student in my class of IA (if you don't know what the "IA" is, keep scrolling) created their own website, decided on the nuts and bolts they wanted it to be made out of, and shared it with their friends and family. I've done the same, choosing that my subpages deserve a spotlight here, as they best sum up my life. Which surprisingly, I think any stranger could learn from or relate to, considering there are the many first "do's and dont's" everyone learns as teenagers.

IA.

A classroom full of beanbags, tables that are repeatedly moved throughout the day, one lounge chair, an amazing teacher, and eight insane students that are definitely not like everybody else. Welcome to the IA, basically my whole sophomore life.

 

 

IA stands for Innovation Academy, a program you have to apply to by the end of 9th grade to be in it for 10th grade. We have eight classes in general (Math, Science, Spanish, Physical Education, English, Art, Humanities, and Design) and IA substitutes for four of them (English, Art, Humanities, and Design). You get your schedule, and for the other four, you have individual classes and teachers, while with the IA, you spend four periods with the same class and the same teacher. The program is provided to help students find their purpose and to learn through a different lens of education, which helps them choose whether they want to continue the IA in 11th and 12th grade, if they want to enter IB, or if they'll stick with the Peruvian program.

 

 

We learn the IA's courses through projects and creative assignments, but aside from these concrete facts, the IA is completely different every year, because the cohort is what they make of it. We've made it open, different, comfy, integrative, fun, and worth it. We've had our flaws, but we don't ignore them, we accept criticism and go on from there. We also build our strengths: communicating with each other during projects, talking about anything that's on our minds (stress and IA related), make compromises for project decisions, and still keep everything moving and exciting because something that's the same in every cohort is that everyone has something to bring to the table.

 

No one (like in the real world) can give what their peer next to them can, and in the IA we explore those details more in depth. Everyone's individualized more than in a regular classroom, this way they can actually get closer to their purpose after or even during High School, and they're able to apply their new findings in the IA, in school, with the teacher, with their friends, even with their families.

 

Which is the reason why we're creating our own websites, to share those details we've recently encountered, but also to show how they've affected our lives after the IA, after finding them. But it's also not just about what've learned, but also what we can explain from the other areas of our life that are our life: a sport, a hobby, a passion, a love, our parents, a sibling, our friends, a stranger, our life lessons, our lifesavers, our idols, our inspirations and goals...

 

Here you'll be reading mine.

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