• Dance

• Chinese Music


• I play the Chinese Dulcimer and the Gourd Flute.

• Piano

• National Honor Society


• Norton High School National Honor Society: Tutoring, Bike-a-thon, baby-sitting for the community

• Student Council


• Organizing and Running: Homecoming Dance, Pep Rallies, Talent Show, Hypnotist Show, Spirit Week, Welcome back Teachers, Kiss a Senior Goodbye, Coldstone's Fundraiser, various community service projects at EPOCH Nursing Home; Food and Can Drive, Jeans for

• Spanish Honor Society


• Tutoring and Community Service (Salsa Night, Bingo at EPOCH Nursing Home, Talent Show at EPOCH, My Legacy Project at EPOCH, caroling at EPOCH)

• Art Honor Society


• Fundraisers and Community Service (Valentine's Day Carnations; Halloween Pumpkin Sales; Snowman Christmas Gifts)

• Math Honor Society


• This society was initiated this year. We are currently planning a school-wide "Pie Day" on March 14 where we post math problems around school for students to answer to win a free piece of yummy pie. We also promote recycling by entering students into a ra

• Quill and Scroll Honor Society


• For Participation in School's Literary Publications

• Peer Leaders


• Helping others work out issues; serve as role model.

• Freshmen Advisory


• Helping a group of freshmen adjust to life in High School

• Musical Theater


• Artist's Way Conservatory Musical Theater Competition Team; performing at Taunton's "Rally for the Troops"; caroling at Nursing Homes; performing in the annual Christmas Show; and more...

• Teacher Appreciation Night Committee


• This group fundraises all year to organize a Teacher Appreciation Banquet for all of the teachers in Norton. Something special I do for this is perform Chinese music and dance as entertainment for the teachers.

• S.T.A.N.D


• Students Taking Action Now: Darfur

• Tutoring


• for Spanish Honor Society, National Honor Society, and on my own (student who needs help adjusting to high school, transfer student from St. Lucia)

• Math Club


• Once a month, get together to take a challenging test. Review last month's test.

• N.I.C.E (Norton International Culture Extravaganza)


• The N.I.C.E Committee works to bring culture to the Norton community. This year, we are organizing for local cultural groups to come perform at the high school. The performance is followed by a cultural food reception.

• Tutor


• I tutor a student who recently transferred to my school from St. Lucia. He is in my freshmen advisory group.

• Four Inspiration


• Performing Arts Group of Chinese Dance and Music - perform at various churches, nursing homes, schools, culture shows, etc., in order to promote culture while also raising money for certain charities.

• World Music Festival


• My siblings and I (Four Inspiration) were invited to perform at a benefit show at Bridgewater State College; the proceeds went to help the victims of genocide in Darfur.

• Chinese New Year Celebration


• Each year around Chinese New Year, I play Chinese Music at the Boston Public Library. The instruments I play are the Chinese Dulcimer and the Gourd Flute.

• Taunton Kid's Care Day


• Kid's Care Day is an annual town event meant to motivate and inspire children to become more community-orientated. My siblings and I perform Chinese dance during this event :)

• St. Ann's Youth Choir

• Chinese Music and Dance - Norton Public Library


• Each summer, Four Inspiration (my siblings and I) perform at the Norton Public Library as a supplement to their Summer Reading Program. We perform a combination of Chinese Music and Dance.

• Chinese Music and Dance - Norton Middle School


• Beginning my sophomore year, my siblings and I have performed Chinese Music/ Dance each spring for the 6th graders at Norton Middle School in conjunction with their study on ancient Chinese History.

• Chinese Music and Dance - Teacher Appreciation Banquet


• In my freshman year, I helped organize the first-ever Teacher Appreciation Night Banquet. The night included dancing, awards, and presentations, but also a cultural performance by Four Inspiration.

• Chinese Music Performance - Freshmen Advisory


• My siblings and I are student mentors in our high school's freshmen advisory program, and the day before February vacation, all four of us performed Chinese music for the freshmen.

• Cultural Event - Chinese New Year Celebration


• Each February, along with the Boston Silk Bamboo Music School, I perform at the Boston Public Library for a Chinese New Year Celebration.

• Cultural Event - Noble and Greenough Culture Show


• After a dance performance at Boston Public Library, my siblings and I got invited to perform at this incredibly BEAUTIFUL boarding school in Dedham.

• Cultual Event - People of Color Conference


• After our performance at Noble and Greenough's Culture Fair, my siblings and I got invited to perform our dance at the People of Color Conference at the Boston Expo Center. 5000 people!!

• Cultural Event - Whitman Hansen Chinese New Year Celebration


• For two years now my siblings and I have performed at the Chinese New Year's Celebration at Whitman-Hansen High School. The first year we did Chinese Music, the second year, Chinese Dance.

• Benefit Show - World Music Festival


• Four Inspiration (my siblings and I) performed at Bridgewater State College along with outher musical groups as part of a benefit show. The proceeds went to benefit the victims of genocide in Darfur.

• Benefit Show - Ester's Aid


• My siblings and I were invited to New York to perform in a benefit show were the proceeds went to help the citizens of Rwanda.

• Dance - Miss Taunton 2007 Preshow


• My dance studio in Taunton performs in the preshow for the Miss Taunton Pageant.

• Dance - Lighting of the Green


• My dance studio in Taunton performs in the Lighting of the Green Ceremony every year.

• Vocal - Caroling at Taunton Nursing Home


• My competitive musical theater team and I do musical theater by singing Christmas carols at a local nursing home.

• Vocal - Rally for the Troops


• Taunton had a "Rally for the Troops" Celebration on the Green, where performances by the local people would be videotaped and sent over to Iraq. I sang a song my musical theater team that was taped.

• Tutoring - foreign student


• I tutor a freshmen transfer student from St. Lucia, help him adjust to school in a new country.

• Tutoring - Spanish


• In addition to the tutoring requirements of the Spanish Honor Society I permanently tutor a student who has trouble with the subject.

• "Seussical The Musical"


• 6 week camp in the summer for the production of Seussical the Musical.

• Spotlight Dance Camp


• One month Dance intensive, where we also learned choreography for the upcoming Holiday Show

• Ester's Aid Dance Workshop


• All of the performers in the benefit performance attended a dance workshop before the performance. There, we took master classes, learned about each other's types of dance, and created a piece for the closing number.

• CTY Summer Program


• Course: Crafting the Essay

• Traveling to Asia


• Vietnam (where mom and dad came from); Thailand (where mom had family); China (brief stopover before flying home). This trip immersed me in the culture of my parents homeland. What I saw in Asia has changed me forever.

• Student Council

• Local Colour


• Local Colour is Norton High School's Literary Arts Magazine)

• Freshmen Advisory


• Two times a week a group of 16 freshmen, myself, and our teacher advisor get together and do activities to help the freshmen adjust to life in high school.

• Four Inspiration


• "Four Inspiration" is a performing arts group of Chinese Dance and Music. We perform at various churches, schools, culture shows, cultural events, and benefit concerts.

• St.Ann's Youth Choir


• lead younger members throughout mass, help newer members adjust, serve as role model

• N.I.C.E (Norton International Culture Extravaganza)


• My siblings and I created the N.I.C.E committee in order to bring more culture to the Norton community. We wanted to give the ethnic students in our school the opportunity to share their culture. In attending the event, we hope that the community will att