About+Me

About Me

I'm Angela Wong, important parts of my life are music, language, friends and school, and this is my story. I was born and grew up in Victoria, B.C. and as a child I could fluently speak Mandarin as my whole family could. My sister and I started going to a day-care when I was 3, I was so shy there and i would only talk to my sister, people thought i was mute! After the workers began to notice they called my parents and my mom had a talk with me that night. I didn't have a reason for not talking it's just I was incapable of opening up. Starting kindergarten was hard because i didn't have my sister by my side but i would talk to teachers and when I started talking to some girls we made strong friendships that still remain today. The problem with socializing with everyone is that I lost all my mandarin, I can only understand it after trying very hard to regain it but whenever I try to speak Mandarin I have a terrible English accent! I won't give up though, hopefully one day I will be as fluent as I was a child. Starting from the age of 6 I started playing the piano and it has become a big part of my life, I'm in grade 10 piano now and some of my favorite pieces are my composers like Beethoven, Debussy and Bach. I also started playing the trumpet in the Cedar Hill band three years ago. From just those two instruments, music has changed my life for the better. In my Junior High years, making friends became so much easier, making middle school the best years of my life so far, I've made lots of friends while improving my knowledge and learning a new language (I was in late French immersion). I believe the reason everyone got along so well was because everyone was a beginner and everyone needed help, so working together created a bond through all of us that was hard to let go. From the beginning of M iddle School I'd known I would go to Mount Doug, that had always just been the plan, so it wasn't a shock that I'd have to say goodbye to everyone because they were going to Reynolds to continue on in their French, but knowing that didn't make things easier, leaving them was like leaving a family, everyone cried on the last day of school and I was positive I would regret my decision of leaving, but somehow I have already adapted into this new high school life and I am loving it! So I think that the hard and exciting changed in life are what make me who I am today.

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