SENIOR SPOTLIGHT: Sabina Ajjan

NAME: Sabina Ajjan

NICKNAME: “Sabean” and “Bean.”

SENIOR YEAR BUCKET LIST:
“I want to try to have a 50 freestyle [stroke] less than 40 seconds.’’

SOMETHING MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT YOU:
“I have been to 20 countries (including Estonia).”

YOUR BEST QUALITY AND WHY?
“I work hard and I have pretty good stamina, and I’ll keep going even when I’m tired”.
YOUR GREATEST FEAR AND WHY?
“Probably failure… getting all F’s, that seems pretty bad.”

FAVORITE STRATFORD MEMORY?
“I think all the football games like where the color guard is all together you know, those are good memories. Actually I think maybe this band camp. I feel like even though we were all in masks we still bonded a lot.”

MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT AT SCHOOL?
“I get pretty scared a lot. Sometimes people make me randomly scream. Mr. Stecher, he’s made me scream before or when I was doing backstroke and then Mr. Morrison asked me if I was having a seizure.”

FAVORITE RESTAURANT AND WHY?
“I like homemade food best but I guess I like Moes, it’s always good.”
FAVORITE SEASON AND WHY?
“Summer because I don’t like the cold.”

FAVORITE SOCIAL MEDIA AND WHY?
“I use Instagram the most so I guess that’s my favorite. It’s a lot more interesting than snapchat.”

FAVORITE THING TO WEAR AND WHY?
“Probably just like jeans and a nice shirt.”

MORNING OR NIGHT PERSON AND WHY?
“A night person like in the morning I’m so tired but at night it can be like 1 a.m. and I’ll be up.”

WHAT MAKES YOU SMILE AND WHY?
“Being with all my friends and bonding together.”

WHAT ANNOYS YOU MOST AND WHY?
“Getting bad grades, getting grades I didn’t like.”

IF YOU COULD DEVELOP A VACCINE AGAINST ANYTHING, WHAT WOULD IT BE AND WHY?
“A vaccine against cancer cause like a lot of people have suffered from that and it would just make everyone’s life better.”
FAVORITE SAYING:
“Just because I seem disorganized doesn’t mean that I am. It can be more helpful than you think to not [focus] on all the tiny details.”