Getting to Know Me

Juliana Ruperto
English 1100
8/25/2015
Prof. Young
                                                               Getting to Know Me

1. If you consider dancing a sport, then I have been playing a sport since I was about three. I started dancing in Union City, my birth town, but we moved to East Windsor when I turned six.  I stopped dancing after the move and didn't start up again until freshman year of high school at Galaxy of Dance. However, this year I can only teach dance there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkeZrs11pSo
2. Dancing is my passion. I didn't realize it until I was about fourteen but I constantly find myself dancing around my room or even taking a trip to the gym to dance around their empty rooms. Whenever I'm going through a stressful period in my life dancing helps me release some of that built up stress. 
   
3. Growing up I've had a lot of nicknames. The most recent one is Juicy J; this nickname came across at a creative writing rap battle in high school senior year. Myself and a group of friends decided that we all needed rap names. My friend Lenny named himself Lemon Len, and my friend Tori named herself TooTurntTori. Throughout middle school a lot of my friends called me Juliepulie. Also for as long as I can remember some of my family calls me Juju along with a couple of my brother friends. 
   
4. I'd like to think that I'm more of a fictional writer. That being said it hard to follow a proper outline when writing fiction. Therefore, I create a general topic that I know I want to write about and just flow from there. When it comes to essay writing it's hard for me to follow an outline so I usually try to allow the words to flow out but I almost always find myself running out of ideas.
5. Personally, each year of high school writing was completely different from the other. Freshman year my teacher focused a lot on poetry. Sophomore year my teacher focused a lot on the five paragraph structure and the use of a funnel writing style. I learned through these writing techniques and my teacher definitely gave us multiple times to proof read our work. However,I personally focused too much on writing exactly five paragraphs that I would run tangible details that I would start to write random things until I eventually had five paragraphs when in reality only two and a half of those paragraphs made sense.
6. As of recently I've been listening to a lot of EDM and house music but I think that's mainly because it's still summer outside and that's the kind of music you hear at parties. However, usually I listen to a lot of hip hop and rap music. One of my favorite artist right now is Drake. Although for the most part I'll listen to anything, for example I like some country songs; I could listen to Taylor Swift all day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPEJFyD--ck 
7. I'm obsessed with social media. I check my twitter a good twenty times a day. I'm constantly snap chatting parts of my day. I don't really use Facebook anymore, I started using it more once I got accepted to college because that was really the only way to meet the people going to my school. Finally, when it comes to Instagram I like to check it everyday but I don't post a picture everyday, just mainly on hashtag throwback Thursday or selfie Sunday.
8. This semester in english I would really like to learn how to improve my writing to the best of my ability so that when I do become a teacher one day I can teach my students the proper techniques. That way they won't struggle like I do when it comes to writing essays. I want to learn how to become a good writer outside of fictional writing.
9. As a writer I would rate myself a C because I feel like I lack skills in professional writing. I can write a really good fictional story but what if I have to write a research paper for a job? I feel like I lack skills in that area but I would really like to improve on them.