I’ve been in Journalism all 4 years of my high school career, and I didn’t even want to join in the first place. My freshman year I was unceremoniously kidnapped and dragged to the East Side News study hall, a slowly dying out club that no one really knew about. At the start, I didn’t really want to be a part of this, it was something new filled with people I didn’t know. Over time however Journalism became my favourite part of coming to school. 

A huge part of that was Ms. Selena Galvan, the Big G. When Galvan took over Journalism and East Side News, she brought a life that it was lacking before. She encouraged each and every one of us to follow our dreams and to be ourselves, to find a part of journalism that made us happy, not what would make the website appear the best. 

With this encouragement I found my love for photography – and my hatred for being the one on camera. 

I owe East Side News so much for shaping high school for me, for introducing me to people I would have otherwise not have met, for teaching me to be creative and see what others don’t.

And to Ms. Galvan, thank you for always encouraging me to be unapologetically myself, for being the teacher I could go to when things got hard, the teacher who always understood, who got angry with me and gently corrected me when I was wrong. 

This is Luna Kenneally signing off, have a great bengal day, ROAR!