Q: If you had to choose what would be your favorite hobby?

A: “Probably, photography.”

Q: How did you get in yearbook, and how long have you been in yearbook?

A:“So at junior high, I was selected to be in their Livewire, their news writing class, but I didn’t have enough room in my schedule. So when I got to high school, I took Intro to Pub, and I found my passion for photography. I joined the yearbook and newspaper, but it was getting to be a lot in both. So I just stuck with the one I liked the most, which was the yearbook. This will be my fourth year.”

Q:What’s your favorite thing about the yearbook?

A:“My favorite thing about the yearbook is probably designing the spreads. I’m in marching band, so I don’t get to see the Homecoming, so I live that experience through the spreads that we create.”

Q:What made you want to do silks?

A:“I danced when I was younger, but my brother was in the band. I realized I couldn’t do dance and orchestra and all that because it was too much. So we talked to Mr. D. when I was younger, and he really wanted me to be in the band. I decided I was going to be a silk, and I had to drop dance because it was just too much.”

Q:Do you wish you still did dance?

A:“Sometimes for sure.”

Q:How hard is it to do silks?

A:“It’s not that hard. It’s just a big time commitment, for sure, because we have practice every day besides Wednesdays, and they’re four hour practices, sometimes three and my arms always hurt because flags are weighted.”

Q:When you perform, do you get nervous?

A:“Sometimes, if I don’t feel very confident about the routine. We just had Brandaroma, and I was right in front of the wall. I was nervous to perform because I would hit the wall during practice. But when we’re on the field, not really.”

Q:Do you get nervous when you’re in drama club?

A:“Yes, because I’m always afraid I’m going to mess up.”

Q:How many plays have you been in?

A:“I don’t do the plays. I help paint for the plays, but I’ve been in two out of the three musicals. I plan on doing ‘Little Mermaid’ this year.”

 Q:How is your time management with so many activities?

A:“I really had to learn my time management because I’m a big procrastinator. I really struggled having to do schoolwork and all my activities. But I’ve really learned that after school, I need to get all my schoolwork done, so I can finish with activities at night.”

Q:Do you see any freshmen as you when you were younger? It could be in anything like drama, silks, yearbook. 

A:“Yes, they’re a little silk Nora, she was like me, because I’ve always been on the shorter side, so it’s really hard going from a five foot flag to a six-foot-five and trying to whip it around fast.”

Q:What is your favorite memory?

A:“I think my favorite memory has to be going to Disney in my ninth grade year because it’s just the coolest experience to walk down Main Street. It’s very hard to, obviously, get there and Disney’s is so expensive. It was really cool.”

Q:Is it true that you guys are going Disney this year? 

A:“Yes.”

Q:Are you  excited for that?

A:“So excited.”

Q:What is your hardest thing yet to overcome? 

A:“Auditioning for orchestra. I go to Districts every year, and I always got really nervous auditioning. Even though it was a blind audition. I cried at one of the districts because I was so nervous. I auditioned for our orchestra at school just to get an audition under my belt. So that was one of the biggest things.”

Q: I don’t really know a lot about orchestras. Could you tell me more?

A: “So, the chairs are the conductor. First chair is the top violinist that has auditioned, and then it’s to check a chair, and then you can audition for the second violinist and get a chair, your chair just means you’re one of the best in your section and you’re closer to the front, I guess. So I auditioned for second violin and I got third chair.”