Blog Post #1 : Who is Merina Shaban?

1.First, introduce yourself. Write a brief paragraph (3-4 sentences) about who you are, what your family is like, your hobbies, where you are from etc.:
My name is Merina Shaban. I have one sister and one brother. My parents put us all in ISKL (THE BEST SCHOOL IN THE WORLD!!!) Ampang. I am in 6th grade and my sister is in 10th grade and lastly my brother is in 12th grade. My hobbies are swimming on the weekends with my family, Eating my favorite food … sugar!!! :D I go crazy for sugar! I love it so much. In fact I love it so much I eat it every day!

2.What are the last three books you read? (include author names please!): The last three books I’ve read where the twilight books … yes another person I am a twilight lover, Twilight freak I LOVE TWILIGHT!
So I have read …
1.New moon.
2.Eclipse.
3. Breaking dawn ….
But u might add Twilight … the author’s name is Stephanie Meyer.

3.What is the last movie you have seen?: The last movie I saw was Knowing . It is about these people that can see the future and they whisper in peoples ears and they whisper in only kids ears and stay with the child until he/she has grown up. They are trying to whisper in peoples ears that the world will end soon. But i cant continue because I don't want to just waste it for you ! You have to watch it ITS GREAT!!!

4.What I one academic goal you have for this year?: My academic goal for this year is to get better at math because that is not my strongest subject. Last year i didn't do well in math and that's why this is my academic goal. Improve in math!!!

5.What is one social goal you have for this year?: My social goal this year is I want to be able to improve in a lot of my classes but i mainly have been thinking that i want to improve more in music ! I've always thought of music as my career, my life and i just love it! So right now i want to be better in band . I play the trombone. I call him JIMMY!!! But i also want to sing ... So now I am definite that I LOVE MUSIC!!!

6.What is your favorite vacation memory?
The most memorable memory I have in a vacation is when I went on many jet skiing and I went para sailing. I love being with my family because we bond and get closer I went on with my brother and they told us to be careful because the ocean was FULL of Jellyfish and they wanted us to put our feet in the water just for 5 seconds and there was a Jellyfish right next to my feet and my brother and i lifted our feet as high as we can to not get touched and we were screaming and we were laughing because we are just crazy like that! So when the man in the boat that was pulling us pulled us up and we were relieved ! When we were flying back to shore my brother started leaning to sides and pulling strings and we kept moving towards the water instead of to my parents and everyone was screaming "PULL THE RED STRING PULL!!!" and he did but we kept moving towards the water and i screamed! Then my brother PULLED the red string with a grunt and we went flying towards my parents and we were so happy we made it! The men that let us go on said "No one should be on the para sail right now just the jet ski and I am surprised you guys landed on the floor instead of the water!" My mom was just thinking about going before and after witnessing that she didn't want to go! My mom takes forever to get my mom on a water ride but after a hour of begging we got her on it!!!

7.List 5 adjectives to describe yourself.
1.Hyper (all the time)
2.Curious
3. Jumpy
4.Bubbly
5.Always Happy

- Merina Shaban

I would like to be a ...

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If i where a scientist i would like to be a Archaeologists because digging up bones always seemed interesting to me! I always wanted to know that I dug up a ancient body or I dug up a very important artifact!!!

I do think that if I was a Anthropologist I wouldn't be able to know what it was like being there when it was me that had Dug it up ... Being a Anthropologist would be okay, but I like to be able to go everywhere around the world digging up all those interesting artifacts.

I wouldn't mind being a Historian, because I LOVE reading about these things! Though every time I read one of those books or watch TV, and see that someone dug up some bone of an ancient animal, a human or even animals today... I say to myself I wish I were that person!

If I where a Geographer I would be okay but geography isn't my best subject and I'm not very good searching up on maps. I might be one when i grow up because I've always wanted to know about the world and the places and I've always wanted to come to someone and have a educated conversation.

I actually think being a Paleontologist would be quite like a Archaeologist in a way because you have to study bones though being a Archaeologist you have to discover them ... But I still chose Archaeologist over it.

Even though all of these job sound very interesting I still think that being a Archaeologist seemed like the way to go. Though a Archaeologist is a Social Scientist just like the others they are all different in many ways! So now I learned who that person I have dreamed of being is a Archaeologist ... Now I am exited and am looking forward to my ... FUTURE!!!