Who+am+I?



I am September-01-10 5:30 PM My name is Owen McCleery, I am from Canada, Toronto Ontario. This would be my 6th year of living here in Barbados, and I enjoy the relaxing lifestyle Barbados offers, by listening to music and just relaxing by the pool. I moved here in 2001 and stayed on the south coast for 5 years. Before I knew it I was back in Canada at St. Andrews College, where the uniforms are much different from the dress codes here. At my old school you felt a sense of pride wearing a blazer and tie to school everyday, even in the odd hot day. It was an all guys school, I wasn’t told of this until I got there. I enjoy having girls around it adds variation to how the guys act, but all in all it makes it seem like you want to try harder to impress them, in a way. I only have one sister which is younger then me. Her name is Tara, and she is in MYP2. I just finished my first year at the Codrington school and I have to say that fitting in with this group of students was not difficult. Me and my sister both felt welcome when we entered the school. Though fitting in in the first year was alright, meeting expectations of teachers was the challenge. Compared to my old school they varied in many sizes. I like Codrington and what it offers academically, on the athletics side of things I was used to playing 3 different sports a year at S.A.C which I enjoyed because after a hard days work you couldn’t wait to go out and just have fun, getting rid of all the steam you build up from inside the school for 8 hours. We also had to do Cadets which was a program to teach us teamwork and to work in sync, I do not believe it did anything other then annoy the students which had to attend by taking away another hour of their time after school. I think I have a better grasp on what the teachers are looking for and understand how to improve I feel I will do really well this year. I am kind of shy at first but once some one and I are close I am very outgoing. I find it not in my comfort zone to have the upper school mixed with the middle and lower school, though I like kids it just doesn’t feel the same with all the noise, sure I'm used to it with my sister, but I would like if the upper and lower schools were separate, so that during a test I don’t have to stress over concentrating and trying to think over the noise. When it’s a student body who is more or so your age you just feel surrounded and safe by your peers. I feel that I will try my best in every class and I think the 2010-2011 year will be one to remember.