Hadas Brook

I think the most important thing to remember in life is to be yourself and not to let anybody affect your decissions in life.

Elementary Years

One of my earliest memories from elementary school was that in second grade I went to a school where there were two mandatory classes that most schools don't have even as optional classes. One of them was a music class in witch we had to learn to play the flute. We couldn't choose any other instrument, it had to be the flute. The other class was a dance class. But it wasn't any modern dance. It was old fashioned Israely dances (I lived in Israel at the time), that only old people dance. Everybody complained about that class, but I think that everybody secretly found it fun!

I don't think any of my teachers had much of an influence on me. In fact, I don't even remember the names of any of my teachers from before I moved to the U.S. during fourth grade.

I don't remember much about my friends from before I moved to the U.S. either, but I remember a little bit. During second grade and before, I had two friends. Their names might seem a bit wierd, but that's because I'm translating from Hebrew. One was named Ye'ara, and the other was named Gal. I remember that at school I was ussualy with Ye'ara, and after school I was ussually more with Gal. After second grade I moved away and in my new school I had a lot more friends. I don't remember most of thier names but I remember that some of my friends were Maya and Katya. I remember that one of my other friends lived in the next street over from my street, so it only took about 2 minuets to bike between our houses. Durind fourth grade I moved to the U.S. and then I met a new friend, Megan. She was my friend all through fourth and fifth grade, but around the end of sixth grade we started drifting apart.

I never really had to deal with bullies in my school. I never saw anybody bullying anybody else. I think I treated other people quite well and never bullied anybody else. I only wasn't nice to people if they weren't nice to me.

Family

The members of my close family (the ones who live with me) are my loving, but sometimes anoying, parents, and my older brother, who's sole purpose in life seems to be to anoy me.

When asked to give me some 'words of wisdom,' my mom gave a long speech that took her a minute and a half to say, and here it is: "To be