9th grade: investigate the world
Freshman year of high school seems so distant to me now. It was the year where I avoided getting involved. I went to Sycamore High School and didn't joint any clubs. I had friends but I chose to distance myself from the commitment and obligations of being in groups. However, the end of my freshman year was when I had my first experience with other cultures. I auditioned for a choir and was put on the Sycamore High School United Singers of the Aves choir that competed at the 2012 World Choir Games in downtown Cincinnati. Here, I met people from all over the world and go to enjoy music from plethora of different countries. I believe that this experience is what originally sparked my interest in other people and cultures. I remember speaking with a woman from the Czech Republic and being amazed about the culture she lived in. Though we were different, I discovered that our lives were really the same. We had the same motives. We generally wanted the same things for ourselves and our futures.