Jhossept Martinez

March 21, 2011

Advisory Ms. Devaney

9th Grade Reflection

I came to International High School at Sharpstown as my last resort because I had other schools that I could have gone such as Bellaire, Lamar, and Carnegie. Since my parents did not want to provide transportation, I pretty much was stuck into coming to International. My first thought of this school was that it was very small and it wasn’t on my favorite’s part of me. The classes that I had taken in my freshmen year were Theatre Arts, Chinese 1, English 1, AP Human Geography, IPC, Geometry, JROTC, and Model UN 1. From these classes I was very successful in Theatre Arts, JROTC, and Model UN 1. In Theatre Arts, I had a very high grade throughout the year for my effort, and work in the class and with other students and it turned out that I memorized a ten minute scene for my final. For JROTC, I was highly successful that I became a platoon leader which is the person that commands a group for a period. In Model UN 1, I didn’t actually take the class for a full year but the in the second semester when I started I enjoyed the class and I felt like a natural learning about global issues and debating them. My most memorable moments in my 9th grade year was I think in the last day of school when almost the whole school went to Kemah, for a full day field trip. The whole day was just about having fun and not worrying about anything, the funniest part of it was that when we had a group of friends, I think eight people, we went to go eat. Once the bill came to us we were shocked since we had to pay about one hundred and thirty dollars. Another memorable moment well day was when I went to my first Model UN competition and went against other school and debated about countries position to a global issue. The best thing about that was that in the end of it, my partner and I had received an award for best position paper of our committee.