Hello, my name is Choi Jadoo, but call me Jadoo.

I am a 14 year old girl who was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea.

I can fluently speak Korean and English.

I will be starting high school in March at a place called Sakura School for the Arts.

I'm a little excited, yet I am a little nervous at the same time.

Hopefully, I will be able to survive my 4 long high school years.

Around 8:30am on the first week of March, I started to wake up to get ready for school. I slided my bedroom door and ate breakfast.

Normally, I would sleep with my sister, Mimi, but now we have our own rooms since we just bought a large, clean home near the city.

For my morning meal, I had kimchi, rice, miso soup and a cup of hot, sweet green tea, which was ordinary.

I took a long shower, picked out a cute outfit to make a great appearance, brushed my teeth, cleaned my face, etc.

Once I ready to go to school, my parents were a bit sad since they though my 4 years was going to be tough for me, but at the same time they were thrilled because I was growing up.

"Oh Jadoo, you've grown up so much. Just look how tall you are!" said Mother.

She does have a point there; I am tall, 6.3".

"And you have such a pretty, cute face." said Father.

"Oh, shucks." I said while blushing.

It was a brilliant idea to go to the beauty salon frequently, when I got my childish ponytails off. Now I have a wavy, dark brown braid. I've also changed my outfit too. Instead of a yellow t-shirt, denim skirt and red baby shoes, I wore a white blouse, dark blue jeans and light blue shoes with sunglasses. Today was going to be pretty sunny.

"Well, I'll be leaving for my freshman year. I will totally miss you all!" I waved as my parents took pictures of me and said their goodbyes. My siblings did the same thing except they didn't take pictures.

I forgot to mention that Mimi and Seunggi are my baby siblings. Well, they're not babies anymore, but still, I like to call them babies. My sister will be in the 7th grade and my brother will be in the 6th. I am still surprised my sister is comfortable with middle school. My middle school experience was as wild and crazy as can be. Kind of like feeding time at the zoo, you could say...¦

My siblings rode the bus to school but instead I walked all the way to school. Normally I'd walk with Minji, but those days were over since my parents bought a brand new house. I live a little farther away from Minji, so unfortunately it's not possible.

Once I got to my school a few minutes later, I took a glance at the building. Surprisingly, it looked a lot like my elementary school in the past. Except that it's not painted gray, but dark red and it looks cleaner. The first person I looked eyes on was my best friend Minji. She was wearing a magenta blouse with hot pink jeans. So, I ran up to her and we gave each other high fives, compliments and hugs.

"Good morning Jadoo! How was your winter break?" said Minji.

"It's been okay, what about you?" I asked.

"Pretty good. Can you guess where I went?"

"I'm not sure? Paris? London?"

"Nope, but good guesses. I went to New York City!"

"You mean you went to the United States?"

I was a bit envy when she told me that she went to the N.Y.C. I've always wanted to go there, but my parents refuse to pay for the flight tickets to America since it's so expensive.

"Have you ever been to America lately?" she asked.

"Well, no. But I did go to a country that's near there and I think it's Hawaii. I went there last summer."

"Err, Jadoo, that is in America."

"Right!"

I have to brush up on my geography sometime, especially on North America.

Later, she showed me an array of postcards from her trip. One was a selfie by the Statue of Liberty, one was by a yellow taxi downtown, one was by a steak restaurant and one was at a luxurious hotel room with her 3 brothers.

"Have you been to North America yet?" she asked.

"Well, I wouldn't say I actually been there, but I've been to Hawaii, which is near America I suppose." I said.

"Err, Jadoo, Hawaii is part of the U.S.A" said Minji.

"Oh, does it? My bad¦" I stuttered.

And that's why I need to practice my geography more often, especially towards the Northern Hemisphere.

As I was talking with my friend, I noticed some familiar faces in the crowd in front of me. I first saw two boys from my middle school. One was Lee Yunseok, who wore a blue plaid shirt with jeans that had brown hair. He was one of my best friends back then. He had such a charming voice, had a proper hairstyle with dashing brown eyes...Wait, what am I saying? It sounds like I have a crush on him! o/o

The guy who was next to him was Doldol, who was wearing a green t-shirt with sweatpants and red shoes. He's also one of my male friends. The only thing I don't like about him is that he is kind of immature especially with me for some reason and he eats too much. *sigh* At least he lost some weight over the summer.

Later I saw Eunhui who was with Nuri and Jangmin. She was wearing a light pink blouse, magenta jeans and hot pink shoes. She was kind of my half friend half enemy classmate. We sometimes would bicker during class but then sometimes we work together as a team. As for the others...we didn't like each other very much ever since 2nd grade.

Brrrrrrrrrrring! The bell rang like a fire alarm out of the blue. Everyone started to hurry towards the front double doors, including my friend and I.

"Come on Jadoo! We will be late if we don't get inside!" panicked Minji.

"Don't worry. I think we'll be okay." I said comfortably.

I hope...