Author: Valentina O

IRJE #1 – Wonder

“Wonder” by R.J. Palacio tells the story of a kid named Auggie Pullman, with a facial difference because of a medical problem The story follows him as he moves to a regular school for the first time in the fifth grade. But because of his medical problem the bullying, trust, and friendships makes some problems that Auggie suffers, but he also finds good acts of kindness and support. Some people see how Auggie’s presence impacts his friends’ and family’s life because the story is told from many of perspectives.

“When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.”

This quote is about the central message that the book is trying to send to everyone. This message is that you have to be kind and respectful to people around you and it doesn’t matter what do they look like

PW #1 Boarding school

I always wanted to go on a boarding school because I have always love the idea of making new friends from other places but I am really close to my family so the idea of being separated from my parents, friends and brothers was not so exiting. I was on my school in Mexico when my school was telling us about boarding school, they where telling us all the schools that where in Canada so I told my parents about the boarding school and they loved the idea of me having the chance o go on a boarding school and I was really exited because I never imagine they letting me do boarding school so we start looking of all the schools the had told us about. I wanted to go to Vancouver but there wasn’t any school that we loved to we started looking in Victoria and we found “Brooke Westshore” we loved the school so my parents let me come to this school. First I thought that I was going to hate the school so I told my mom that I wanted to stay just 4 months, I thought that I will not meet anybody and that I could stay here with any friends and that was one of the bad things that I thought would happened. Right know I regret saying that because I wish I could stay more time but my mom and dad don’t want me to stay more because I have a trip plan already and also because my family already miss me so I’m just staying 4 months.

My introduction

Hi my name is Valentina Orozco I am 14 years old. I was born in October/28/ 2009, I have 3 brothers named Nico, Max, and Cris, I am the oldest. I have 2 cats there names are nieve and kitty . I like play padel and horse riding but I stop doing horse riding because I didn’t like it as much as padel. Right now I do cross cross contry and volleyball . My favorite foods is pasta , some of my hobbies are painting and hanging out with my friends .  My favorite color is blue and i like to visit new places . I came to canada because i wanted to imporve my english and make new friend, also i think it was a great opportunity to be here.