1 . I have a home away from home — my school，Hamden High. Sometimes after 13 hours of school and sports, I consider   _______ there overnight， sleeping in the band room. But I feel most at home at Room Cl03，the costume shop，which my acting friends and I call home. The couch there has been a second   _______ for me.

I have been on the costume crew for four years. I   _______ my first play set in Italy in the 1960s. With the help of my costume teacher，I   _______ my first costume successfully. On stage，it sparkled and made the   _______ of the queen come to life. I felt   _______, realizing that I’d do this forever and help create   _______ through cloth and color.

My costume teacher   _______ my abilities to select designs，colors and fabrics that will   _______ each character. So she asks me to take charge of the ensemble (全套戏服）. ________ a hard task，I welcome it! I   ________ the long nights spent cutting the patterns. I feel like an older sister to the younger   ________.Through my four years of theater, I have   ________ my theater family and the young actors treat me as their older sister. I would feel   ________ each time a family member leaves and we will cry.

I will leave my Hamden High theater family and make my new   ________ at UCONN，a school where I can   ________ these feelings again. I look forward to learning new   ________ in something I truly love and wish to   ________ for the rest of my life. In UCONN, I will also help the actors on stage to   ________ as if their characters come to life. ________,I will find a comfortable couch in a new band room to sleep on.