The Commander

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Hata, Velic

Although Hata Velic has only recently started embracing the art of writing in recent years, she has quickly excelled and has put forth her full potential in her journalism class. Velic was born in Weimar, Germany, but moved to the US at the age of one. She was never able to experience Germany, but was fortunate enough to visit Bosnia when she was ten. One inspiration for her to write is that experience, as she was able to open her mind and embrace the different culture.

While growing up in California, Velic realized that she had great opportunities ahead of her, and in the future would be able to relish these opportunities by increasing her knowledge through colleg. Velic has always been very involved with school. She took part in ASB while she was in her middle school years as well as a program called WEB, where she and the other eighth-grade students went into sixth grade classrooms and taught the sixth graders about being a tool for change. She is interested in helping the community.

Ever since Velic was seven years of age, she has enjoyed performing in front of others. Velic took ballet lessons for about a year at the Balboa Park Civic Theater. She then followed with gymnastics at Victory Gymnastics Academy for about three years, and was taught many fun and useful tricks. For example, using the high beam to do handstands and cartwheels, along with back handsprings. When Velic was in the fifth grade, she auditioned for the school play and got the part of one of the main characters in Hansel and Gretel, the witch. After fifth grade, Velic went to the Creative Performing Media and Arts Middle School where she learned and practiced many different dancing styles for the full three years. She continued to do ballet, and added jazz dancing, tap, hip hop, and modern, and eventually was able to make it to the Advanced Dance class in her eighth grade year.

Not only is Velic interested in the performing arts, but she is also planning to use performance in her dream career as a sports journalist. Although she has only participated in journalism her freshman year so far, she is planning on continuing it for the rest of her high school career, and hopefully will make it a profession in her future.

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