[Music] hi my name is shakina r i attended NOA Preparatory Academy and this is my M story I started Noble in grade 10 um I was it was the pandemic time so I was in a little homeschool area and it wasn't really I wasn't really feeling it I never used to go to class or anything but I came to Noble started to see difference in my grades and my behavior and everything else I've meet new people new teachers I've met Mr bullet um he showed me a lot of opportunities that I had in the future at first I wasn't really considering college or anything like college really wasn't on my mind but as I started to grow in MPA started to to meet with other people and start to talk to certain teachers about college um my thought changed in grade 12 we took a trip in April we came and revisit niaga college at this time I I was applying to other colleges and it was very hard for me to get in and I'm not a person to sit down in a classroom area and just listen to professors and just talking all day like that's not the way I learned but when I came to Nar in April and took the T book with the campuses um I saw that this is where I wanted to be um I enjoyed the tour I enjoyed everything about the campus is very beautiful and the people over here so oh my God they are so nice so that's the type of environment I want to be and I don't want to be an environment where I have to sit and wait so I also want to thank Noble Preparatory Academy for allowing me to see this experience and being here I graduated 2024 I grad with honors I clean up the I clean up the stage and I just want to thank Noble for it because I knew I was going to graduate but I wouldn't think I would be graduating with honors um 3.0 um from my K to Noble I've never made nothing under 3.0 nothing I've always been on the honorable and I'm pretty glad and it brought my talent on I was I'm not a person who speaks but when Mr Bull call on me I'm there my teachers calling me I'm there I never say no so I also want to thank them for that um so now I'm at niaga College at my orientation day and my journey is about to start and I'm very very excited um I hope the journey goes very well and as my NC Journey starts thank you NOA perator Academy my name is Shak r [Music]