Biography of a friend: Michael Wijaya

A couple of days ago, my group, along with me myself, are assigned to a task about making a biography. Not about ourselves, but about other team members. The Elevate team consists of two boys and two girls, and naturally we all picked a boy-boy and a girl-girl partner to write each other’s biographies, but then our worldview teacher stated that we’re going to do it in a boy-girl groups, so this is a short biography about Michael Wijaya. 

He was born in the 14th of December in the year of 1999. He’s one of the most active students in the class, as well as one of the brightest (I must begrudgingly admit this). 

In class, we discussed about the questions Mr. Mak provided us. Although we have an adequate amount of time to answer everything, it is proven to be difficult to fish some of the answers out since even for me myself, I don’t even know the answers to some of the questions given.

Michael, who grew up in the same place as he is now, studied at IPEKA in the past, before moving his academic adventure here in Springfield International School in the year of 2012 (when we all began at grade 7). He has quite a shining talent in basketball, and in school subjects like physics and mathematics. He likes to study subjects in the science and in the mathematics field. At grade 9, when all of the students are required to choose which subjects they would like to focus in, he got in into physics and maths, and he enjoys talking about it to his friends at quite a constant rate. He also enjoys playing computer games and also watch various popular movies or read comic books and likes to do those things during his spare times (including his weekends). Michael is not really a serious student during usual schooldays, except when the exams are two or one week away, that’s the point when he shifted from being an ordinary 15 year old student who loves life and everything it gives into a serious students whose only task is to cramp all the year’s worth of studies into one week or two of studying in order to prepare for the examinations.

He also enjoys some things that I do like, such as reading comics and that I am so excited for him because he is going to watch The Walking Dead, which means that he might be a potential of being a fan of the show like I am and it's nice to have people to talk to about your favorite shows. Michael, all in all, is a good friend, and he is a big part of the classroom being a "fun" environment. Sometimes, when he is absent, the classroom becomes eerily quiet, and that is something a class shouldn't be like.