by Aly Copp |

My Worst Ever…

Day:  “When I was a lot younger, maybe eight years old I was going to the fall festival with my brother and my dad for the first time. My parents were like “Okay we’re going to go get some food” and I wanted to go but I just decided to stay.  They left, but [a while later] they weren’t back with any food and I was hungry. I knew the direction they went and where they were  going so I decided to try and find them. I couldn’t find them at all, and I was really scared because I was so young. There was a police officer that came up to me and he was like, “Are you Mary?” and I said “yeah” and he was like “Are you looking for your dad?”and I said “Yeah.” My parents called the police to try and find me. It was a very traumatizing experience for me.”

Hair Day: “My hair can get pretty crazy, when I take it out of my braids it gets kind of afro poofy. There’s times when I have to go to the pool that I have to make sure that it’s braided or else it will get really weird and tangled. One time I didn’t do that and it was in a big poof. And my hair, whenever I swim, it weighs me down, so I came out and it was all matted against my head and I couldn’t untangle it and it was terrible. I think my friends kind of just tried to ignore the subject, but you could definitely tell they noticed.”

Thoughts on Mary: “Mary is an incredibly motivated student. She is focused, and determined. She is incredibly detailed and diligent in how she works, and I think that those are some of the hallmarks of why Mary is so successful in class,” Debate teacher Timothy Baldwin said.