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Why I'm here

    Hey there everyone, my name's Abdullah. I'm a sophomore who goes to Everglades High School, and some of my hobbies include basketball, cartography, tracking weather, coding, and a bunch of other stuff too. In Middle School I went Franklin Academy Pembroke Pines (K-8). I still feel like a freshman honestly because last year I was going online and this is really my first time entering the building.

    I didn't actually choose to be in this class (or even list it on my course selection sheet). The reason I'm taking this class is because my schedule that I was given at the beginning of the year was messed up, and listed a class that I had already taken the previous year online. Earlier last week when an option to switch my schedule came out I went on and requested to be moved out of the redundant course.

    As a result, I now have been put in this class, named "Media Studies". I honestly didn't know what to expect based on the name, and was thinking that the course would be somewhere along the line of being some kind of journalism class. Now though that it's been a few days, it really seems like its some kind of film class, which I suppose is alright. Maybe I'll find that I'm passionate in this or something... Also the blog we get is pretty nifty too. I had no idea it was this easy to create a blog on Blogspot!

    Anyway as for the whole class, I'm not entirely sure how it's going to go, but it looks like I'll be taking it

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