[BC] A Bit About Myself

Hi! My name is Sarina Ngo. As you can guess from my last name, I am Vietnamese since both of my parents are born in Vietnam. Although I am mostly Vietnamese, I'm also American and Chinese because I was born in California on the 24th of February, 1996 and my mom's grandparents were Chinese. I guess you can say that I am trilingual. My dad died from cancer when I was three years old because he was smoking and drinking all the time, so I really dislike smoking, drinking, and drugs. Ever since then my mom and I faced a lot of troubles.

My mom was sometimes overworked to earn money to pay for living expenses and a lot of debts. Since my mom was working, she couldn't take care of me so she had to hire a babysitter. I had to transfer schools every time my babysitter changed because most of the babysitters couldn't take care of me anymore or they just lived too far away, which I had to be in a school that was close to their place so that they could pick me up. So far I transferred five times (not counting middle and high school):
1. Washington Elementary (Alameda) for kindergarten and first grade
2. Haight Elementary (Alameda) for a few months in second grade
3. Lorenzo Elementary (San Lorenzo) for a few months in second grade as well
4. Cabello Elementary (Union City) for the rest of second and third grade
5. Whittier Elementary (Oakland) for fourth and fifth grade
I experienced many things. I had to say goodbye to my old friends but I also got to make new ones so it was alright.

For middle school, I went to Wood for a full three years, and now I am going to go to Alameda High for a full four years (that will be my first time staying at one school for four years). I forgot to mention that when I was going to Cabello, my sort-of-step dad moved in, and some of the load of earning money for living expenses was split until he became unemployed and is somewhat helping around the house. So that was mostly how my past was like. Now, on to what I like.

I like to watch anime and read manga A LOT, but any book is fine as long as it is interesting to me. I guess you can say that reading is one of my hobbies. Another hobby of mine is playing the guitar because I love music and it's really fun to play/make music. I like math and science (although I used to not like science). I'm NOT athletic at all causing me to suck at sports, but I still like to play badminton and tennis sometimes.

To me writing is something that I like to do, especially when I can free write on anything that I want. This is actually my first time writing a blog EVER, I hope that I am doing an okay job of it. My writing goals for the year are probably to build up on my vocabulary, to be able to respond to prompts more flowingly, and to write better essays because I sort of suck at that too. So I've pretty much summed up a bit about myself in this blog.