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Group projects seem to be enjoyable but sometimes they can really stress me out. More often then not I do majority of the work in a group project and stress about it, but I knew for this work I wanted to be in a group. My first day in this class I worried about the projects and who I would be working with. I have transferred into this school due to the better education compared to my formal school, but I don't know many people and was worried I wouldn't make any friends. The first two weeks were difficult but I am glad to say that it has not been as hard as I imagined. This is a really big class and my only friends here are in A level, which worried me a lot for the projects. There are a few girls I sit by that I am friendly with, but I know I wouldn't work well with them. They are lovely but much too chatty and off task for me to be comfortable depending on them for work. I ended up getting seated next to Faith and Janiya and could not be more relieved. I instantly felt comfortable with them and enjoy spending my time in class with them. That being said, I do of course want to make sure I work with people that will contribute. Wonderfully so, it is easy to see that Faith and Janiya prioritize their academics and scholarly activities. Before the first group project was even brought up we were already chatting about working together. Today we have already easily thought of a product to do our commercial on and ideas on how to work with it. Janiya is really big on things to do with theater and would be a lovely actress for our commercial. I want nothing to do with being in front of the camera and just want to work behind scenes, so it is the perfect fit.  Everyone is very creative and we come up with ideas easily together, disagreeing on nothing. Each of us are exited to work together on the commercial so I have no doubt it will get done. While we only have two hours to film, I am confident we will have more than enough time. Our personalities and work ethics go well together, so I know we will be able to get everything done on time, and have fun doing so. 

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