A little about me...
Hello there! My name is Anna Ritoch. I am a senior at Pacific Coast High School. I find it exciting and scary how fast these last four years have gone by. It seems just last month I was a nervous freshman with braces taking her school photo. Now, in a few months (or by the time a lot of people read this) I'll be walking and receiving my high school diploma and going onto the next stage of my life.
These past four years have opened up my mind to many things and proved to me that I could do more than I thought I could. I haven’t even graduated from high school yet and I get to say I’ve written a book and created a website that has helped so many. Not everyone gets to say that and I am glad that I can.
I still stuck with many things that I enjoyed, such as acting, for example. I think I was ten years old when I started my first acting class at South Coast Repertory. From there I was hooked. I was in a lot classes and am now participating in the drama program at my high school.
I've been in plays like Fiddler on the Roof, Thoroughly Modern Millie, scenes from Arsenic and Old Lace (that one was particularly fun; I got to play a deranged old woman who like to kill old men with wine), and now my school is doing a parody of Greek mythology, in which I have the honor of playing Medea and mime giving birth to two kids (not so fun...). I shall trek through it. Now I get to finish my high school acting life in Wizard of Oz.
I have a few other hobbies. They include drawing, creating the off video, and writing. My drawing skills are decent. If you give me a photo to look at, chances are I could do a pretty accurate copy. When it comes to doing things myself I just cannot get those squares and circles and lines. I feel like I am drawing a map, and I am terrible at reading maps.
When I was younger I thought I was going to be a famous director and producer. So to pursue this dream I wrote many scripts (I never finished any of them) and filmed small skits with my friends. I realized after some time that I wasn’t going to be like Steven Spielberg and decided to commit myself to another hobby. I started writing around the time I started doing those screenplays. I wrote the occasional short story and sometimes went about starting a book. Most of the time I would write something, get writers block, and then read a good book. I spend most of my time now writing for Get Through it Together, and I really enjoy doing that.4
Aside from that, I am learning to speak French. I have studied French at the local community college since 2010. Par example:
Je parle un peu de français. J'ai pris le classe pour deux ans. C'est quatre ans par la norme de m'école.
Now, my structure and conjugation may be a little off. I don't think so, though.
There are many things I aspire to do and be in the future. I really am looking forward to getting accepted into college. There are many schools that I am applying to. Many of them are on the east coast, across the country. When I told Henry Friedman some of the colleges I wanted to go to, he laughed and said that all kids want to get as far away from their parents.
That is not necessarily true in my case. It's my parents who are telling me to go as far away as possible (not in a bad way). They want me to have a change of scenery, place, and life. They don't want to be just an hour car ride or two hour flight from me. I appreciate that from them (Thanks Mom and Dad!).
In the beginning of this long rant about moi, I mentioned that my high school career has allowed me to do things that I never thought I could do. I never thought I'd go through so many different projects and finally pick something that I liked which was right in front of me the whole time (my sister's brain tumor).
And I sure never thought I'd have to pretend to give birth during rehearsals every week in front of thirty people for four months straight. Yeah...that one was sure a surprise.
These past four years have opened up my mind to many things and proved to me that I could do more than I thought I could. I haven’t even graduated from high school yet and I get to say I’ve written a book and created a website that has helped so many. Not everyone gets to say that and I am glad that I can.
I still stuck with many things that I enjoyed, such as acting, for example. I think I was ten years old when I started my first acting class at South Coast Repertory. From there I was hooked. I was in a lot classes and am now participating in the drama program at my high school.
I've been in plays like Fiddler on the Roof, Thoroughly Modern Millie, scenes from Arsenic and Old Lace (that one was particularly fun; I got to play a deranged old woman who like to kill old men with wine), and now my school is doing a parody of Greek mythology, in which I have the honor of playing Medea and mime giving birth to two kids (not so fun...). I shall trek through it. Now I get to finish my high school acting life in Wizard of Oz.
I have a few other hobbies. They include drawing, creating the off video, and writing. My drawing skills are decent. If you give me a photo to look at, chances are I could do a pretty accurate copy. When it comes to doing things myself I just cannot get those squares and circles and lines. I feel like I am drawing a map, and I am terrible at reading maps.
When I was younger I thought I was going to be a famous director and producer. So to pursue this dream I wrote many scripts (I never finished any of them) and filmed small skits with my friends. I realized after some time that I wasn’t going to be like Steven Spielberg and decided to commit myself to another hobby. I started writing around the time I started doing those screenplays. I wrote the occasional short story and sometimes went about starting a book. Most of the time I would write something, get writers block, and then read a good book. I spend most of my time now writing for Get Through it Together, and I really enjoy doing that.4
Aside from that, I am learning to speak French. I have studied French at the local community college since 2010. Par example:
Je parle un peu de français. J'ai pris le classe pour deux ans. C'est quatre ans par la norme de m'école.
Now, my structure and conjugation may be a little off. I don't think so, though.
There are many things I aspire to do and be in the future. I really am looking forward to getting accepted into college. There are many schools that I am applying to. Many of them are on the east coast, across the country. When I told Henry Friedman some of the colleges I wanted to go to, he laughed and said that all kids want to get as far away from their parents.
That is not necessarily true in my case. It's my parents who are telling me to go as far away as possible (not in a bad way). They want me to have a change of scenery, place, and life. They don't want to be just an hour car ride or two hour flight from me. I appreciate that from them (Thanks Mom and Dad!).
In the beginning of this long rant about moi, I mentioned that my high school career has allowed me to do things that I never thought I could do. I never thought I'd go through so many different projects and finally pick something that I liked which was right in front of me the whole time (my sister's brain tumor).
And I sure never thought I'd have to pretend to give birth during rehearsals every week in front of thirty people for four months straight. Yeah...that one was sure a surprise.