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Hi! I’m Amy Grant and I am 15 years old. I am currently enrolled at Seattle Public High School. This is my first year in high school, so I’m a ninth grader. I love high school, it’s a real nice place to study and learn: there are so many subjects and extra-curricular activities that are offered that you can never get bored. Besides the mandatory subjects, you know, math, English, science and technology, social studies and PE, I’m taking a Japanese class. It’s an optional class but I think learning foreign languages is absolutely essential nowadays. I’m also part of the speech and debate team, and the film and television club as I would like to become a journalist on TV. Next term, I think I will also join the food club to help promote healthy food in our school. The food at the canteen is really fatty so, just like many students, I prefer brown bagging it, you know, bringing my lunch bag to school. If you’re more the sporty type, there are many teams to join, as well, such as the wrestling, soccer, lacrosse or crew teams, for example. My friend Lisa is a member of the belly-dancing team and they have competitions. How cool is that!
Like most students in the US, I attend a public school. The rules in my high school are pretty strict, especially as far as the dress code is concerned. As you may know, in Florida the weather is quite hot all year round, but there’s no way we can wear bikini tops to school! We must dress appropriately, which means no ripped jeans, and no super-short shorts. Flip flops are allowed, though. I’m glad we don’t have to wear uniforms! Our school day starts at 8 a.m. and usually finishes at 3 p.m. We have a one-hour lunch break and the class periods usually last between 40 and 60 minutes. We regularly have tests and the teachers use letters to grade us. If you do a great job on your test, you’ll get an A. But if you fail it completely, you may get an F! We don’t have one big exam at the end of high school, but instead we have finals in each class at the end of each semester.
I’m really having the time of my life right now! High school is like in the movies or series! You can meet all different types of students: the geeks, the jocks and the cheerleaders, the art crowd!
I just can’t wait to go to the senior prom and to see our year book! I think I’d like to stay in high school forever!
I changed "seattle" to "miami" because Seattle is a city located in Washington, which is a cold, rainy state in the northwest. Miami is a city located in Florida, which is a hot, humid state in the southeast. I also moved a a paragraph so the passage would flow better, but it was not grammatically incorrect.