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  In my group I am only working with one person and that is Nicole Tarantino. We have known each other since 9th grade, and bonded over our hatred for math. When we first joined this class, we didn't know we had the same period together so that was very exciting because other than this class we don't have any together. When we received our first assignment for media studies we were ready to quit right then and there but once we actually thought about the assignment and what we could do and how we could do it we were fine. We both think that we are going to have a hard time keeping up with our homework in our other classes but we are going to try our hardest. Nicole is 16, she recently got her drivers license and she helps picks up her younger brother when her mother in unable to. I know for a fact she loves her brother with all her heart, she would do anything for him and help him with anything he needs. Her birthday is in October and she's a scorpio and we get along very well. My mom and close friend are both scorpios and we bump heads a lot but Nicole and I have a great relationship and basically the same personality. We are both in the law program taking AICE classes and she plans on studying psychology and criminal justice when she gets to college. I think that Nicole and I will work well together because we both care a lot about our grade and Cambridge diploma because we need this money for college and we want to succeed in life.  Before Nicole and I really became friends we would see each other around school because we had mutual friends. We don't know exactly who came up to who and who initiated the friendship but we are both very glad that it happened because we are so much better off since it happened. Since we are good friends and have each others phone numbers I think that we would be able to work with each other very well, and her having a car is also a plus. Nicole lives maybe 15 minutes away from me so this makes it much easier to meet up together and finish our projects hopefully earlier than needed. We both think alike which makes working together so much easier so we don't have to bump heads about everything. Both of us have friends that used to take this class that are hopefully willing to help us if we ever get stuck and don't know what to do. I also hope that we are able to make very good and interesting videos for this course because we are both very interested. Neither of us know much about editing or filming but if we put our minds to it I think we can get a good grade and pass. Since Nicole and I are good friends, I know we will be able to do on extremely well on these projects. 



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