Humans of DV: Week 35

Mrs. Wilson: I started to play soccer competitively in a club team starting from third grade. In high school as a junior, I tore my ACL and broke my arm in a skiing accident. And so I didn't play soccer on the varsity team my senior year, and I felt crushed. I thought that playing on the varsity team in my senior year would be a huge leadership experience. And then I had the accident in February, b...

Eunice Mok: “Especially these days with everything going on, dancing has been my escape- it's something that I genuinely enjoy doing. Dance is very free; there's no pressure for me to hit everything perfectly or be very skillful about it. I can just sort of do whatever I want to do. My earliest memory of dancing is when I did ballet when I was three or four. I didn't really like it that much, so ...

Kiara Parker: I started riding horses at a friend’s place in November 2020, as she began teaching me simple things like mounting and steering. There are two styles of equestrian riding: English, which focuses more on technique, and Western, which is considered to be the easier style to learn. She started teaching me the English style, and I was like, ‘Wow, this is really interesting.’ Afterwa...

Sandhya Anand: “I’ve always loved art, ever since I was little I used to go to art classes a lot. And then after COVID happened I stopped, and my art studio shut down. But after not doing art for a while, I found this opportunity to do digital art which I've never done before, and I noticed that I was pretty good at it. I started making stickers because I joined the American Cancer Society clu...