Ana



Hi! :D My name is Ana Ghiban. I'm 12 years old, and i was born in Bucharest, Romania. I am Romanian, but i live in Dhaka, Bangladesh (obviously). I moved to New Delhi, India when i was 8 and lived there for 3 years, and then I moved here. I am a 6th grader at AISD (again, obvious...) I have a brother named Horia, and he's almost 8 years old, although some people think he's 5....he is really annoying but he's kinda cute. :) My parents are Daniela and Valentin Ghiban. My mom works in the garments industry for a company called H&M (Hennes & Mauritz). I don't have any pets, although I had two cats named Mishu & Gri. Mishu ran away and Gri died last summer. :( Below, there is a picture of me, a picture of my family, a picture of my two cats, the logo of the company my mom works for, the Romanian flag, and a picture of all the countries I've lived in.



Some of the things I love the most are music, computers, and movies. I love any type of music, but pop, rock, rap, and hip-hop are my favorites. My favorite singer is Avril Lavigne, but i also like Kesha, Bruno Mars, and more. My favorite band is Paramore, but I also enjoy Green Day, The Cranberries, and loads more. My favorite movie is Wild Child, but i also love The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and The Superhero Movie. My favorite food is pasta and my favorite thing to do is hang out with friends. Some of my favorite books are Inkheart, The Thief Lord, The Clique Series, The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls, Un Lun Dun, and more. Below are some pictures of my favorite artists, and movies.



Here is the trailer to my favorite movie, Wild Child. media type="youtube" key="Ux03Nt-jjHg" height="390" width="640"

I've lived for 8 years in Romania, 3 years in India, and almost a year in Bangladesh, but I have visited many other countries such as Bulgaria, Turkey, Hungary, Greece, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and Mauritius. I loved Mauritius, Australia and Turkey the most. I liked Turkey because it was one of the best hotels I've been to (11 pools! seriously!) and the places where beautiful, Mauritius because it was very a very peaceful island in the middle of the Indian Ocean and we had friends who live there, and Australia is my most recent holiday and I can remember all the wonderful things I did and places I visited more clear than I can remember any other vacation. I love going to the beach or somewhere up in the mountains. I always enjoy going on holidays because i can visit new places that I've never seen before and I can do new and fun things there. Below are some pictures of the places I like to go to and the flags of all the countries I've visited.





Somebody I really admire is one of my friends. She is always happy, and just goes on with life when something goes wrong. She knows how to meet new people and make new friends easily and she can always brighten the mood. She is also really pretty, and a good dancer & singer. I admire her because I like the way she always enjoys life and tries to make the most of it. She is also really understanding and helpful, and whenever I'm with her everything just suddenly becomes more fun.

Something i would like to learn more about is Macs, because this is my first year at AISD and before i came here, i had never used Macs. I am still a little unfamiliar with the menu bar, shortcuts, apps, and things like that so it would be good to get more familiar on this topic. I would also like to learn more about any type of computers, and computer applications. I know a lot already but it would be very interesting to learn even more. Something I really want to know more about is video and image editing, Adobe Photoshop, the different functions of browsers, movie making, and lots more. I think it would be interesting to understand applications and features like this because then I would know how to use them and I could create lots of different things using the computer.





I don't really have any specific plans for my future. I would prefer a job that does not include sitting all day in an office. I would like a more exciting job, like a zoo keeper or a news reporter or anything like that. In the future, I would also like to visit a lot of new places I've never been to before such as USA, South America, Africa, and Western Europe. Mostly I just want to enjoy my life, meet new people but keep in touch with everyone I know, and have lots of fun in my life. For the near future, I hope to stay in Bangladesh until I finish middle school and then move somewhere else where there is an American school just like AIS/D and my old school in New Delhi. If not, I would also like going back home to Romania but I will be behind a lot of things in school if I move back there and I wouldn't be able to attend an American school, either. None of these things are my choice though, and I think it is better to go for my parent's choice.



These are 10 RSS News Feeds that I subscribed to from my iGoogle page. They are Google News, bdnews24.com, CNN.com, BBC News - Home, WN.com - Photown News, BBCRomanian.cm, Adevarul.ro, Jurnalul.ro, REALITATEA.net, stirileprotv.ro. I choose these news feeds because they give a lot of info on new updates from all over the world and I can also find out what is happening in my home country, Romania. There is also a news feed with Bangladeshi news.