All About the Writer; behind the computer


Illustrated by Sophia Ysabel

name: Sophia Ysabel Pangilinan Danganan

age: 11 years-old

birthday: July 29 2013

likes: writing about random things, reading, books, listening to music (on headphones), deep thoughts, sweaters, organising, organised environments, bookshops, (weirdly) horror, TV shows to binge, shopping, singing, warm showers on a cold day, karate, sleeping, actually funny things that are funny for absolutely no reason in particular

dislikes: EVERY SINGLE THING THAT RELATES TO BOREDOM SOMEHOW, waiting, change, school (just a tiny speck), stress and anxiety, being cold, being woken up, depressing things, getting your hopes up then something/one ruins it, tomatoes!!!!!! (do I even need to explain why?...), capsicum, cold food

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Well,  there's three things I wanna be. One of them is being an author, since I love writing random stuff about... anything I guess. The last two are either an artist or a psychologist, or both! An artist because I wanna make a webtoon (digital comic basically) one day, and a psychologist because I want to know more about feelings and emotions of human beings. 

Thoughts on being a Year 7 (In America, in Grade 6)?

SCARY. Mainly because I'm moving classes and well, I really don't know what to expect. If weren't for my friends being in the same year as I, it would've been both scary and saddening. But as always, it takes a while to get used to. And eventually, you accept change. So if you're moving classes this year or the next, think about it as a new and refreshing chapter to your life. That's what I did.

What are some goals that you wanna achieve this year?

You know how I do karate (click on this link to know more about my karate journey)? Well last time I wrote about karate, I was an orange belt.

(go to the GKR website to find the order of belts, and a bit more information about starting karate)

And now currently, I'm a blue belt. Two grades higher than an orange belt. So the next belt up is a red belt. It takes 40 (min. amount of) classes and 5 months from the last time you graded up. 

My goal is to at least to change belt colours at the end of 2025. It really is possible, because my family and I attend a maximum of 5 classes per week!!! That is... eh, tiring. So 20 classes per month, and 40 classes per 2 months. Meaning to SAY, a whopping 240 CLASSES we attend ANNUALLY!!

Another goal is for me to read 200 books until the end of the year. It's my New Year's Resolution this year. I know it sounds wild, but if you read 17 books per month for the whole year, you get an accomplished New Year's Resolution and read 200 books. The reason why? Well, for the whole year at 2023, I've read a lot less than what I can actually read! So I wanted to change that by this year. Currently I've read about 17 books from the library. 


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Location: New Zealand

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