There is one thing that stands out about our school the first time someone walks onto our campus. No, it’s not that we don’t have lockers, and it’s not that we have an outdoor campus. Silver Creek is unique for the diversity of our student body compared to many other schools in our area. Our campus includes many different groups of people who all coexist with one another.
Cathy Wang and Trisha Nguyen are both juniors here at Silver Creek High School. If you only knew some basics about them like grade, gender, or racial background, they could seem fairly similar. They’re both in eleventh grade, are female, and have Asian ancestry. Both their parents immigrated to America, making them the first generation of their family to be born in this country. Together, they make a best friend duo, though there’s more than meets the eye for both of them.
In her childhood, Cathy was greatly influenced by her neighborhood friends. Although she was basically the only girl in the neighborhood, she had much less stereotypically ‘girly’ interests. She would ride a bike through her neighborhood, play Pokemon with her friends, watch anime, and play basketball quite often.
“Being the only girl in my neighborhood in New Jersey, I really didn’t learn to like the stereotypical things that girls usually like. I never learned how to do makeup, play with dolls, or wear skirts,” Wang said.
Cathy Wang and Trisha Nguyen are both juniors here at Silver Creek High School. If you only knew some basics about them like grade, gender, or racial background, they could seem fairly similar. They’re both in eleventh grade, are female, and have Asian ancestry. Both their parents immigrated to America, making them the first generation of their family to be born in this country. Together, they make a best friend duo, though there’s more than meets the eye for both of them.
In her childhood, Cathy was greatly influenced by her neighborhood friends. Although she was basically the only girl in the neighborhood, she had much less stereotypically ‘girly’ interests. She would ride a bike through her neighborhood, play Pokemon with her friends, watch anime, and play basketball quite often.
“Being the only girl in my neighborhood in New Jersey, I really didn’t learn to like the stereotypical things that girls usually like. I never learned how to do makeup, play with dolls, or wear skirts,” Wang said.
Similarly, Trisha was influenced by her neighborhood friends, though instead of a dominantly male neighborhood, her neighborhood was filled with both boys and girls roughly around her age. This didn’t seem to cause her to lean towards more stereotypically feminine or masculine interests, though.
“I mean, I didn’t really dislike playing with nerf guns or painting nails. I kind of just did whatever with whoever I was with. Heck, most of the time I was with both boys and girls, riding my bike with my whole neighborhood or forcing my brothers to play kitchen with my female cousins and I.”
Now both in high school, the pair has seen how though they seems similar on the surface, they’re actually extremely different from one another. The craziest part is that when you first meet them, both seem as if they’ve known each other for years, yet they only started talking to each other their freshmen year.
Cathy and Trisha have led lives that are somewhat similar to one another, but not completely so. Both of them were born in California, but only one of them had moved. Both have brothers, one who is already married and the other with two younger ones. They both have interest in music, though only one understands musical terminology fluently and the other can barely read sheet music. All these little points, though small, are what make these two and everyone so different from one another. It’s these small details in our lives that makes us so unique from one another.
“I mean, I didn’t really dislike playing with nerf guns or painting nails. I kind of just did whatever with whoever I was with. Heck, most of the time I was with both boys and girls, riding my bike with my whole neighborhood or forcing my brothers to play kitchen with my female cousins and I.”
Now both in high school, the pair has seen how though they seems similar on the surface, they’re actually extremely different from one another. The craziest part is that when you first meet them, both seem as if they’ve known each other for years, yet they only started talking to each other their freshmen year.
Cathy and Trisha have led lives that are somewhat similar to one another, but not completely so. Both of them were born in California, but only one of them had moved. Both have brothers, one who is already married and the other with two younger ones. They both have interest in music, though only one understands musical terminology fluently and the other can barely read sheet music. All these little points, though small, are what make these two and everyone so different from one another. It’s these small details in our lives that makes us so unique from one another.