Humans of Tam

By Dahlia Zail and Zoe

Wortzman

My counselor told me I had to do another class and I have a good relationship with the photo teacher so I decided to TA for her. I usually take photos of nature. My best photo is the one I took that’s on the cover of the Tam planner. Also my Instagram is fire.

When I’m not at school, well I’m diving for Tam and that takes up a lot of my time. I’ll hang out with my friends, or go to the gym. Or go and hike in nature. I like to hike by Mountain Home Inn or on Mt. Tam on the fire roads. I go mountain biking with my dad. I like living here because I feel safe, you can walk on the streets at night, the weather’s alright, there’s San Francisco right there. Food is good.

I have been injured biking lots of time. Just a couple weeks ago I was riding on a street in Corte Madera and I got hit by a car. I hit my head pretty hard, I don't know if I got a concussion. I honestly just didn't go and check. It cracked my helmet. That seems bad but that's what they are supposed to do.

Being assistant librarian is a great job, I get to work with students and faculty. Basically my job is to help people find information and it’s the best job I’ve ever had. I’ve had other jobs that are way worse, this is fun. It’s fun to work with the students and the staff are really nice.

I was born in San Francisco I have three brothers i am hispanic I- hm what else is interesting about me? I am Latino, Guatemalan to be specific. I strive to get As in all my classes and I love to get good food.

We’re the graduating class of 2014!

Auto Shop is really hands on, it's very fun. You get to work with cars and you learn skills that you can use in your daily life that you wouldn't learn otherwise.

Tam has been really different than middle school, I mean I hated middle school. Tam you're free to express yourself a lot more. You truly find yourself at Tam, in an adventure type of way. If you think about what other kids think of you, you're gonna have a hard time at Tam. I hang out with lots of different kids, I hang out with the athletes, and the “nerdy” kids but they're not really nerds.

It was pretty sad the way the basketball season ended. We took that L against San Marin and that was kinda sad. Overall we had a fun season and I really enjoyed my team and next year Tam is winning MCALS!

Last night I paid my Freshman enrollment fee for the University of Alabama and picked out my roommate and she goes to Tam so I’m so excited!!

I’ve been working here almost 10 years during the weekend as a custodian and it’s been great. Usually I have to check for permits, make sure people are using the fields and the pool as they are supposed to use it .

I’m thinking of running for senior class president. I don’t know if I’m gonna do it yet. I feel like I’d do a lot of great things for the senior class, throw us an awesome prom. I have the experience needed to do it even though I haven’t been in leadership. I’ve done a lot good things and similar things in model United Nations, I’ve been running the club for three years. I think I’ve had leadership experience ever since I was in elementary school with clubs and various things. I know how the student body works and overall I’d just do very good for this school and our senior class.

I just transferred here from the French school in the city and i think it was a good experience because I’ve met a lot of different people and it's a lot bigger. The teachers don’t focus on just one person and they're open to any answer and I like that.

I live in bolinas. Its hella far away. It is really irritating and you have to wake up hella early.

At Marin Catholic there was a lot of discrimination against people who are gay, people who are different. I feel like I was pressured into being somebody I was not. They would tell you need to go to mass, you need to become Catholic, you need to be baptised and I was like, ok well what if I don’t want to do that? There was just so much pressure to learn all about Catholicism and I wasn’t interested. I wanted to come to Tam and learn different things that I was actually interested in. I’m taking engineering and street law and psychology next year, and all of those they don’t have at MC, so that’s pretty exciting. And I don’t have to take theology!