Ka’s Introduction

Hi, My name is Mariama Ka (a.k.a Maria) I’m 19 years old, I was born and raised in the most down part of NYC ( well in my opinion) Boogie Down Bronx ( Known as The X ). My nationality is African American which my family originated from Gambia and Senegal in West Africa. I am also the second person in my family to go to college which is big, so I have a lot of expectations from not only myself but my family too.  My family and I are Islamic which means I am Muslim. I’m not perfect,  I fail short of practicing my religion as in wearing my hajib every day because I’m Americanized, I mean as I get older I will settle into fully being committed but one step at a time. This is my second semester as a freshman in city tech. I took a whole gap year off due to just wanting to live life. Being in school for 12 years really had my feelings in a bag. I felt like it was a prison for education and so I did a whole year of just me. It gave me soo much clarity in life and my surroundings, which lead me to come back to school to achieve the goal I want. My major is Accounting, The reason why I choose City Tech as my college is that really no reason, I just felt that it was easier than other options. My favorite hobbies are jamming to music, watching youtube, and chilling with my friends. I love music, my favorite genre is R&B. Welp that’s all that is to me, not really much to say, it still kinda like an on going journey, Even though it’s sucks not being on campus I hope we all get to learn and interact as much as we can.

What Do You Expect From This Class?

This semester what I want to gain from this class is to better my writing skills. The strength that I already know I am strong in is having multiple ideas for and having so much to say. the problem is putting it all in one sense. Also to improve my vocabulary skills.