Ana Vega Assistant Editor Art & Photography “Oh, to be in a global pandemic. Seems quite strange if you’d ask me. You read about history, which is filled with a surprising amount of plagues and diseases. But to think, a pandemic happening now? It’s crazy. Although the concept isn’t new, since you do read about it in the textbooks of your history classes, watching it unfold before your eyes is entirely different. That’s what the WCS Literary Magazine wished to highlight: uncertainty, to bring it forward by materializing it through our student body’s creative mind. We are truly in the eye of a storm this very moment. We are here living it with everyone, virtually or with masks. Yet, we wanted our theme to touch every single aspect of a person’s character as well. It was not just about the pandemic, but our hardships too. I’ve been here my whole life, since first grade, and it’s a bittersweet feeling to see this school grow alongside me. Now, I’m a senior heading off to Rollins College, ready to study Secondary Education and become a teacher for the next generation and the generations that come after that. I’m quite happy I could spend my last year at this school as part of the Literary Magazine Staff. So I encourage anyone interested to contribute to next year’s magazine. I had a really good experience with this team: Mrs. Castano, Austin, and Gianna. They were great, so I know you’d enjoy being part of this team too.”
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