[hider=Ramona Hernandez][center][color=d2b570]Ramona Hernandez[/color][/center]
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[color=82a17d][b]Ramona Hernandez[/b][/color]
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[color=ece4d5]15 | Female | 5'1" | Bisexual | Sophomore[/color]
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[color=ece4d5]Dislikes[/color][/center][sub][sub]♦[/sub] [color=B8C5B3][i]Cilantro. It tastes like soap![/i][/color]
[sub]♦[/sub][color=B8C5B3] [i]The cold. Ramona is from Miami, Florida, so her version of the cold is anything under 50 degrees. Even something as commonplace as snow is unfamiliar to her. Once winter comes at Wellington, she'll be in for quite the wake-up call. [/i][/color]
[sub]♦[/sub][color=B8C5B3] [i]Camping. Although she's only been once, she can say with confidence that she'd much rather travel to a foreign country than to the woods. Plus, mosquitoes are gross.[/i][/color]
[sub]♦[/sub] [color=B8C5B3][i]Math. She's not bad at it, persay- it's just boring and complicated and she'd much rather be doing literally anything else. [/i][/color][/sub]
[center][color=ece4d5]Likes[/color][/center][sub][sub]♦[/sub] [color=B8C5B3][i]Coffee- what's not to like! It helps you pull all-nighters and wakes you up in the morning. What? Headaches?! Psh... those are nothing- as long as you drink some more coffee in the morning. Ramona is a certified coffee addict. In her words, it's a little piece of happiness you can drink. ...She might have a problem.[/i][/color]
[sub]♦[/sub][color=B8C5B3] [i]Travel. Although Ramona's never even been outside of the United States (or Florida until she went to Wellington Academy) she loves the idea of travelling to foreign countries. Her dream is to study abroad someday, preferably in a country with a language other than English or Spanish. Since she hasn't ever traveled, her main resource for this interest is living vicariously through travel vloggers and bloggers. And maybe browsing through too many brochures.[/i][/color]
[sub]♦[/sub][color=B8C5B3] [i]Linguistics[/i][/color]
[sub]♦[/sub][color=B8C5B3] [i]Nail polish. She has an entire collection of all different kinds of colors, and her nails can often be seen painted.[/i][/color][/sub]
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[center][color=ece4d5]skills[/color][/center][sub][sub]♦[/sub] [color=B8C5B3][i]While not photographic, Ramona has a knack for rote memorization. This lets her memorize new vocabulary and alphabets lightning-fast, and to retain that information well. In that vein, she's also quite good at studying- the aesthetic kind, that is. Her handwriting is neat and pleasing to the eye, and at any given time, there are flashcards and sticky notes and fancy pens and cute spiral notebooks (all organized by color and subject!) laying on her desk. God forbid that any of it get disorganized, though. She's a good runner- she played cross country before Wellington, although she never placed at the top of her bracket. It keeps her fit, though.[/i][/color][/sub]
[center][color=ece4d5]gift[/color][/center][sub][sub]♦[/sub] [color=B8C5B3][i]Ramona has a gift for language. While most would say that even being bilingual is impressive, she wouldn't even settle for that. Rather, she's multilingual. She's fluent in five languages (English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Japanese) and is in the process of learning two more (ASL and Mandarin). English and Spanish are her native languages, and she learned all the rest through self-study. She's been obsessed with learning languages since she was only 7 years old, and now has a lot to show for it.   [/i][/color][/sub]

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[indent][color=82a17d]To say that Ramona is an overachiever would be an understatement. Driven and unrelenting, Ramona has never settled for anything less than excellence from herself. She juggles her responsibilities, academics, and extracurriculars with an enviable natural ease. Sometimes it seems as though she's an unstoppable machine of productivity. Of course, this isn't always true. Ramona is not, in fact, unstoppable- rather, she's painfully prone to burnout, and sometimes can only barely keep herself going. During these periods, anxiety and depression are her best friends. But even then, she still has all her other, real friends! She'd consider herself fairly amicable, even if she's a bit sassy and won't take anyone's shit. In addition to all this, she a natural, insatiable curiosity for new cultures and new places. It's why she's so obsessed with learning languages and speaking to all kinds of people. [/color][/indent]
[color=b05e4f][color=75988c]•[/color]h i s t o r y[/color]
[indent][color=82a17d]For her seventh birthday, Ramona's only wish was to travel from her hometown of Miami, Florida to Paris, France. While watching the National Geographic channel, she fell in love with the city- its glamorous people, its grand monuments, and, most importantly, [i]macarons[/i]. She begged her mother and father to take her to Paris for her birthday for months and, finally relenting, her mother said that they would go if- and only if- Ramona could learn French by her birthday. Much to her surprise, 8 months later she had a seven year old fluent in three languages and begging to go to France. Her fervent requests were denied, but Ramona had discovered the utter joy that linguistics brought her. 

Ramona never did get to go to France (or anywhere, really- the only time they ever left Florida in her lifetime was to visit family in Puerto Rico), but she satisfied her travel itch by learning languages. When she was ten, she had wanted to visit St. Petersburg so badly that she taught herself Russian and made pen-pals with Russian children. Same story with Japan- she obsessed over anime as a middle-schooler (a medium that she no longer enjoys quite as much) and taught herself Japanese. Her parents were kind and supportive of her passions, but secretly blown away by her accomplishments. Their eldest child was a genius, they thought- so they pushed and pushed and pushed her to succeed. She liked languages, sure, but couldn't she apply herself to [i]other[/i] things too?

The pressure began in seventh grade. Rather than being left alone to pursue her dreams, she was pushed to succeed. It wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Ramon earned all As easily. For that period, she was the perfect daughter. She was the talk of the family, their pride and joy. The cream of the crop, the paragon of accomplishment that her two younger brothers and her numerous cousins could look up to with admiration. She was multilingual at the age of thirteen, a cross country player, and an all As student. She even started to teach herself Mandarin, even though her new busy life made studying a bit hard. Everyone was impressed. But Ramona was starting to feel the whispers of burnout. 

She finally crashed and burned in the middle of her freshman year. She had gotten into the best magnet school in Miami-Dade County, had all As, had the bestest friends ever- so what had happened? What was [i]wrong[/i] with her? She quit the cross country team, failed her first two classes, and withdrew to her room. She stayed like that for the majority of second semester. During this time, she managed to start teaching herself ASL- a language similar enough to English that reinvigorated her love for language. At the end of freshman year, she started thinking that she needed a change. A new school, a new place, a new environment. But her parents didn't have money to send her to a private or boarding school, and transferring out of her magnet school would be admitting failure. So, she found about Wellington, and contacted them. She didn't think she'd be accepted- she was smart, but had never written a book or won any awards or competitions. But apparently, being 15 and knowing 5 different languages fluently (7 if you count semi-fluent ones) was sufficient to blow the admissions committee away. It took a lot of convincing for her parents, who were reluctant to let their only daughter leave the nest at 15, but she eventually convinced them. Her first year at Wellington will be her sophomore year, and, although nervous to be so far away from home, she's excited, too. Adventure will be good for her- she hopes.  [/color]
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[color=b05e4f][color=75988c]•[/color]cottage[/color]
[indent][color=82a17d]will be assigned by GM[/color][/indent]
[color=b05e4f][color=75988c]•[/color]what did you pack?[/color]
[indent][color=82a17d]An abundance of gear for the cold, fancy notebooks full of vocabulary, stacks of colorful flash cards, bright pens for note-taking, foreign literature, a Puerto Rican cookbook (her mother was insistent), a display case full of nail polish, coffee grounds, her laptop, [i]so[/i] many pictures of her family, six hand-woven blankets, several giant foreign language dictionaries, tank-tops and shorts, running shoes, and anything else she might need. [/color][/indent]

[indent][right][hider=extras][color=B8C5B3]It's her first year, so she hasn't earned any Weller Stars or Weller Moons yet. 

[url=https://youtu.be/X61BVv6pLtw]theme song[/url][/color][/hider][/right][/indent][/indent][/indent][/cell][/row][/table][/indent][/hider]