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Humans of Mira Costa

“I’ve lived in Luxembourg, Philadelphia, France, and I was born in Brazil. I moved here from France half way through last year. Since I came in the middle of the school year, it’s kind of hard to make friends. All of the people at Costa had been here so long that they all knew each […]
<a href="https://highschool.latimes.com/author/jtshaw1/" target="_self">Jimmy Shaw</a>

Jimmy Shaw

May 19, 2015

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“I’ve lived in Luxembourg, Philadelphia, France, and I was born in Brazil. I moved here from France half way through last year. Since I came in the middle of the school year, it’s kind of hard to make friends. All of the people at Costa had been here so long that they all knew each other, and change is just something that not many people are comfortable with, so the other new students and I just kind of ended up grouping together.”

– Nicholas Vasconcelos, Sophomore

Follow Humans of Mira Costa on Instagram at @humansofmchs

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