January 30, 2010
Born and bred a British, Shamima, 15, is all about creativity and self-expression. She wishes to pursue a career in Medicine and pursue her interests in poetry, fashion, writing and maybe in the distant future, property development.

I arrived at my high school a child and in a mere five months I will leave a young adult equipped with fine
, fierce determination, ambition and inspiration. I feel privileged to bear such parcel of gifs – five years was what it took to acquire and the rest of my life is the duration it will remain significant to me – owing to the best of teachers, three significant mentors who, like cement and bricks, pieced me together, the person who will come to face the wider world in a only five months.
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January 30, 2010
Gema is an 18-year old from Miami, FL. She loves reading and writing young adult fiction and claims to pass out in the presence of sterile wit.

The term teen violence has been used so often that it’s lost all meaning. It’s an abstract concept that teens hear about over and over again but they don’t comprehend the peril until they experience it. When I was in high school, students rolled their eyes when teachers said things like: “Please don’t let me catch you with a pocket knife. I will have to report you.”
“Why would anyone bring a knife to school?”
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