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I would say I was about fourteen years old, and I was going on one of my last scuba diving expeditions. My father and I lived in Singapore, which was and remains an island, so we had many opportunities to explore the surrounding waters of the Indian and Pacific Ocean. I was certified as a diver when I was thirteen years old, and I am proud to say I have been over 300 feet underwater, and am very accomplished in things that adults have never dreamed of achieving. My most famous encounter was the time my father and I went diving on the Seven Skies wreck. We were about 500 miles off the coast of Johor, an isolated region in Malaysia, and we were

            You know, something this school really needs is, well, there’s a lot of things that this school needs. But it depends on what your definition of ‘need’ is. If you’re a bookworm, you would need a study room, and a library, without only kids books in it, and maybe a coffee or caffeine machine. If you were an athletic person, you would probably say that you need a gym that doesn’t smell like death, and some locker rooms that aren’t only big enough to fit like, four people into. And energy drinks, lots of energy drinks. Or, if you’re more artistic, you would want a art room that doesn’t

            She sat on the brown sofa, the light above flickering slightly while the air conditioning rumbled on above her, blasting a cool flow of oxygen across her body. She shivered.      “I guess it all started back home,” said Aali Kaguma, “I was about 13, so that was 4 years ago. We moved from this little island that nobody knows of, and moved to Chicago. And let’s just say, I was not happy about it.”    Her hair was a bright orange, but she called it ginger, and her eyes, a dark blue. She was tall, skinny, and had freckles across her whole face. She wore a black shirt, advertising a band that no one ha