Junior Morgan Saggiteh has had a life like nobody else, she has gone through heartbreak, love, independence, gratefulness, and so much more. She is a soccer player, softball player, counselors aid, volunteer, and Editor-in-Chief of the school newspaper. She has had many experiences that have shaped who she is as a person today and will continue to have other experiences that will affect her life and others
“If I didn’t have all those experiences and I wasn’t in here every day writing a story or interviewing somebody and if I wasn’t out volunteering with kids or helping out in the counseling center and with other teachers in the building I don’t think I would be the person I am” Saggiteh said.
Saggiteh stays up on her assignments and her education has always been very important to her throughout her childhood to where she is at now.
“I’m always striving too just do better and be better and like challenge myself as much as I can so I feel like challenging myself really motivates me in the fact that like having very strict parents that are like telling me to get good grades that’s also a factor” Saggiteh said.
She helps with many different things and is involved with many different activities but there are some that help others more than helping her.
“I volunteer outside of school for my dad’s organization over the summer we do something called the summer drum camp so the immigrants that he teaches they have the opportunity to learn how to play like different types of instruments and there’s a program that one of the other volunteers conducts where if a student is interested in doing an instrument in school we give it to them for free so I feel like just being around all those people and being around the things that I do really does humble me” Saggiteh said.
Saggiteh is very passionate about writing and loves being able to share her work with other people by putting it in the newspaper at Burke.
“Being able to come into this (journalism) classroom and write and do the thing I enjoy really shapes who I am and I’ve always been a writer I’ve always had a little diary I wrote a book when I was like eight I was in second grade like I did that so just having my hobbies and things I enjoy and being around the people that um I like and that believe in me really helps me out a lot” Saggiteh said.
Throughout her childhood she had many times where she didn’t realize the extent of her independence but that amount of care for her own life has helped her throughout hard times but, family is always nice to have too.
“Once my parents split my older sister kind of took the role of being my mom and she was only like a freshman at that time so she would be like up late doing her homework and studying for her tests and exams and whatnot but always was having to like clean the house cause my dad was working trying to put food on the table” Saggiteh said.
