English III Blog Post: Me

So I guess to start off I'll tell you that I'm 15 years old, and a sophomore. I'm a Roman Catholic and of as far as I know Irish descent. I went to the Academic Center here at Whitney Young and I've so far attended this school for 4 years. Whitney Young is probably my favorite out of the 5 some schools I've attended, and I'm impressed with the variety of classes, technology, activities, and just general niceness. I'm on the Varsity Debate Team here at Whitney and am currently preparing to go to Niles West for our first tournament of the year next weekend. Last year we won the city championship, and we won the state several years ago. I guess you could say it's a sort of dream of mine to win the state championship. You see, policy debate as a competitive activity is naturally biased towards wealthier suburban communities. For instance our school, doesn't have a single full time coach! But the (arguably) best school in Illinois (and Illinois is a very tough state for debate, especially with Northwestern here) Glenbrook North  has 10 full time coaches! It would be difficult to explain the specifics of what the coaches do that make it so unfair, but I'm sure you can tell that 10 is better than none. Anyways, I also really like acting and have been in a lot of professional productions. My last one which I finished up with in July was a performance of Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon in which I played the main character Eugene. If you've read the play or seen it then you know what it's about. I personally thought it was a great and funny play that was an excellent experience. The guy who played my brother Stanley was one of the swordsmen at the Bristol Renaissance Faire which was actually, like (sorry), the coolest thing that had ever happened to me. Yeah, I really love the Renaissance Faire, which kind of makes me a little weird I guess, but I don't dress up or anything like that! Anyways, Brighton Beach went on for about 3 months then ended. I got some good reviews from the Sun Times and Tribune. Hedy Weiss even called me the "Best Eugene Ever!" It was a lot of fun. I've also worked for the Court, Theatre Wit, and starred in a movie featured at the Sundance Indie Movie festival. My favorite class right now is probably either this one, or AP World History with Ms. Boyle. Least favorite would definitely be Pre-Calculus as I'm awful at math in all forms and loath it wholly. So, I just checked my word count and I'm over 430 words now, so I'll wrap it up. I'm excited to see where our British Literature takes us, and my mom says that the books we're reading are good. Hope to have a good year I guess!