Hi Everyone, long time no see!
I've been hella busy with school, and different events I was volunteering for and planning, but also navigating my mental disabilities as well. Its been a tough time.
But, I finally have a free morning where I can just blog, blog, blog.
So, I'm going to introduce to you our friend of the week.
I met this friend this past summer through another mutual friend.
I learned in only a few short hours that this friend is a beautiful writer, a loyal friend, and over our conversations in the past months, will try to cheer me up through hard times.
She is so understanding, and did I mention she lives in a completely different time zone?
Here's Elsa!!!
(All this info she gave me word for word)
Name: Elsa Sandbach
Pronouns: She/Her
School/Where from: Santa Catalina School (boarding school), from San Francisco, CA
Likes: writing, Violet Chachki’s fashion sense, anything illustrated by Maira Kalman, terrible indie movies about queer folks, building snowmen, polenta, and cats.
Dislikes: the word pulsate, seagulls that take my food, the screams of the young ones of this world when dissatisfied with life, tiny splinters that refuse to come out but make themselves very known and very painful, the shells on peanuts, and mint tea.
About me:
I am a rather peculiar sixteen-year-old lesbian. I came out freshman year to my parents via an email and all that was sent back was, “we know.” I tumbled out of my very small closet into a very accepting and loving environment and the few friends I lost along the way due to being true to who I am evidently just weren’t worth my rainbows nor my monthly unicorn rides off into the sunset while playing BeyoncĂ©.
I absolutely adore writing and plan on being a very broke author when I am old enough to lay claim to having a career. I have five siblings not including in laws and entirely too few cats. I probably swear and eat far too much but I’m squishy and soft and the best people have no filters so I’m sure it’s all just part of some grand scheme to make me loved worldwide so I keep on keeping on with my third almond croissant this meal and my fuck everything attitude.
This is charming! I graduated in 2005 from Santa Catalina and came across this post while trying to check out the state of queer student life there nowadays. I'd be curious to hear from Elsa what the vibe is like in her experience now - how open is the administration to queer student organizing, and so on? Back in my day I started a very sneaky GSA but we had to call it a "diversity club" for PR reasons, etc. Thanks for the post!
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading Ary, I really appreciate it :)
DeleteI'll ask Elsa to respond to your comment, and if she's comfortable with it (I'm pretty sure she will be), and you'll have your answers to those questions soon!