Humans of DV: Week 3

Shrinidi Gopal “I started going to spelling bees in third grade, but I never really did well until fifth grade because I wasn’t really as serious about it. When I started placing first in local competitions, that’s how I knew I had the ability to do well. I got seventh in the national spelling bee in 2017. My family and friends motivated me. but mainly it was me telling myself that I could do...

Ginger Lau “I’m in a drum corps group called the Blue Devils and I’m also in a group called Tri-City Percussion. I’ve always just been really passionate about music and I also really wanted to march, but there isn’t something available at Dougherty to do that, so I found an opportunity outside [of school] and I’ve been doing it ever since. It shows me a lot about the world because going to...

Stephanie Swee “You know how at those Vietnamese restaurants, they have smoothies and stuff? My dad introduced those to me; everytime I go to a Vietnamese restaurant, I would order those. When my brother started having T4, [I asked him,] 'Hey, can I get some of those? Because they look so good!' I got the smoothies at first, then when T4 opened in San Ramon [near Safeway], I was like 'Oh, it’s...

Jackson Colla “I was going to do water polo with my friends but then I learned that it’s a varsity sport, and I had no experience. So on the day of tryouts, I just decided to skip it. The next day my dad was disappointed so he told me to try out for another sport. I tried out for cross-country but I don’t think the coach was expecting anything from me at first. But then I made the team on ...