Selfie from Sharon Zenil’s freshman homecoming, a passage for most high schoolers.
Chapter 66: Sharon Zenil
While just getting acclimated to high school, Sharon Zenil has already found subjects that have sparked her interest. Zenil, unlike some people, does enjoy high school thus far. She especially appreciates her art and Japanese class. Zenil excels in school in terms of grades, making the honor roll in Junior High.
In her free time and in art class Zenil enjoys drawing. She likes mainly likes to draw characters and enjoys making comics. She also is inspired by realism, which represents and certain scenario or person in a truthful, realistic way.
When choosing a language most people will jump to Spanish or French, but Zenil is fascinated by not only the Japanese language but the Japanse culture. She thinks that Japanese is a really pretty language to hear and speak.
Zenil also shied away from Spanish and French for other reasons. “I can pretty much fluently speak Spanish, and know a little French,” she shared. She comes from a predominantly Mexican family and her mother does not speak English. “I have to forcefully know Spanish in order to communicate with my mother,” she said.
She is also intrigued by anime, which is a type of animation that originated in Japan. Many of the characters she likes to draw, tend to fall into the realm of anime. She enjoys both reading and watching the Japanese genre. Her favorite series’ include My Hero Academia, Twin Star Exorcists, Kill la Kill, and Naruto.
Along with watching and reading anime, Zenil enjoys listening to music. Her favorite artist is Melanie Martinez, and she enjoys alternative and rock music.
Along with her mother, Zenil lives with her brother. Her brother is 11 years old and is in sixth grade at Riverdale Heights Elementary School. Currently, her father lives in Texas with another portion of her family. Zenil and her family lived in Iowa until she was in sixth grade, they then moved to Mexico and moved back when she was in eighth grade.
Although Zenil has a while before she needs to make any big life decisions, she hopes to attend college post-high school. She is currently interested in attending FIDM which is short for the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. She hopes to carry out a career in fashion design, or animation.
Chapter 73: Cally Thomas
Junior Cally Thomas has been going to PV since preschool but isn’t well known because of her shy character. Behind the scenes, however, she is a dedicated dancer, potter, and potential filmmaker.
Cally is a firm believer in learning new things, believing in yourself and that dedicated work, produces results. “I started dance when I was two or three years old,” Cally said, “I could never see myself doing the splits then, and even when my teacher told me I had to learn it I was nervous but after a month and a half of practice I was able to nail it every time.”
She started making pottery when she was younger and is an active member of the ceramics club at PV. She has even found a way to make money using her skills and sells her pottery creations that take her only a few minutes to make.
Cally is also a huge fan of stories and movies. Her father used to film videos all the time when she was younger and inspired her to take up the camera as well. Cally got adobe green screen and now makes her own short films whenever she has spare time, editing and filming everything herself.
She is also writing her own book about a girl going into a new world full of magical creatures and strange beasts and poses the reader a question of whether her adventures are a dream or not.
In the future, Cally wants to be either a cinematographer or a professional dancer and plans to go to the University of Iowa and then branch out from there. Cally is usually found doing schoolwork, dancing, studying or real-life mine-crafting.