On the surface, Lois Agyemang, a senior at WSHS, may seem like a quiet, shy girl who completes her assignments on time and doesn’t get into trouble at all. She has been awarded Cats with Class and maintains a high GPA, but she has more to her personality.

Aygemang grew up in a small town in Kumasi, Ghana with her mother while her father was pursuing a career in America. She moved to America in 2018 at the age of 14.  She was disappointed when she arrived because she had “so many expectations because of the country’s prestige.” She describes life in Ghana as “never boring, lively, and fascinating,” all the characteristics of  home.

The best attributes about her parents that she boasts of is that her mother is a prayerful woman and her father is very “chill and laid back.”

She dislikes her low confidence in class and gets stage fright when she does her presentations. She hopes to improve this by being assertive about her thoughts and ideas. She claimed, “I’m able to speak more now since COVID-19 has made our classes smaller and I don’t know some people in the class, so I don’t feel shy.”

Her pet peeve is when people don’t verify information they’ve heard about her with her and carry the false statement to another party; spreading rumors. She mentioned “it’s so annoying.”

Her favorite Ghanaian food is the rice based cuisines such as jollof, waakye, and fried rice. Perhaps, not surprisingly, her favorite American dish is chicken nuggets and fries. Turner Harrison, in his article, Chicken nuggets: A fried favorite full history wrote, “Since their creation, nuggets have become part of the American culinary landscape.”

 Her favorite movies are Black Lightning and All American on Netflix and Dangerous Love, a Nigerian movie. She describes them as a must watch.

Aygemang wants to be stable and happy with a good paying career and a loving family of her own.

She claims that Richard Gary, her geometry teacher, had the greatest impact on her at South because he would often encourage her and make her feel welcomed in his class.

She plans on attending one of these six schools to study pre-pharmacy: University of Cincinnati, University of Toledo, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Kent State University, and Cleveland State University.