Hi, I'm LaShauna, I'm 13 and in eighth grade. If you couldn't tell, I go to First Love Christian Academy. I'm the school's first eighth grader, so I guess that's kind of cool. My biological father and I were never really close and my mother basically raised me by herself. I'm the youngest and only girl of three children. I was born and raised in a Baptist church until about 3 years ago when I became a Salvationist; a part of The Salvation Army. I was born, raised, and currently live in Washington Pennsylvania. This is my first time in a Christian school. Previously, I went to Washington Park Elementary School for kindergarten up to fifth grade and that summer, I moved to Trinity Are School District to where I began going to Trinity Middle School. I was at Trinity for two years which are sixth and seventh grade. Those two years I feel like changed my life. In fifth grade I got tested and made it into gifted. In sixth and seventh grade, I began volunteering and furthermore working with a program called Smiles which is an amazing program that inspired me to want to work and major in special education on both ends of the spectrum. From there I began to grow and become an individual person not scared to take risks and able to represent herself on her own.