Jennifer Park/ Student reporter
Biography of Jennifer Park
Born and raised in Korea, Jennifer Park is a 10th grade student at Gleneagle secondary school. She has a busy day to day life of always having an after school activity. She goes to the gym five times a week and for the other two days, she either goes to tennis or piano lessons. She likes having a busy schedule; therefore, she tries to keep occupied at all times. Nobody knows why, but Jennifer enjoys having that feeling of exhaustion after every day.
Jennifer dreams of becoming a nurse practitioner in the future. She dreams of pursuing a career in medicine and found this profession to be the best match for her. Although being a doctor was her original dream, she quickly dropped the dream after coming to the realization that she would have to study throughout her entire youth. Therefore, she decided to go for nursing and hopes she made the right decision to spare her youth for lots and lots of fun!!
Now entering her 13th year living in British Columbia, she has had enough and wishes to move out of the province for university. She wants to stay in Canada since she has lived here her whole life, but just another province for a fresh environment when entering adulthood. For university, she’s choosing between Ontario and Quebec. She visited Quebec during September of 2021 to visit her brother who was in his first year of university. Jennifer loved the “European environment” that Quebec had to offer and expressed how she would love to live here someday. However, there is a small language barrier since she doesn’t know how to speak French. Although she has never visited Ontario before, she is interested in attending the University of Toronto as well as exploring the land as well.
Due to Jennifer’s busy schedule, she doesn’t go out for movies as much but still enjoys a movie night out from time to time. However, most of the time, you would see her watching romance dramas or crime documentaries on Netflix. Her favorite movies and shows so far has been
Jennifer is almost always listening to music. When she’s getting ready in the morning, doing homework, walking, working out, studying, and almost always except when someone is talking to her. Jennifer’s favorite genre used to be K-pop but recently switched to pop. Now, she listens to music but mostly pop. She also likes listening to slow k-drama osts when she’s studying or doing homework.
When she was a child, she used to go on vacation every spring, winter, and summer break. Whether it was just across the border or all the way across the world, she loved going to different environments. However, she hasn’t been on vacation as much since the start of high school. Last summer, she went to Korea for one month and that was her first overseas vacation in almost two years! She wanted to visit Korea since the beginning of the pandemic therefore, she made sure to make this the best vacation yet!
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