By Stephanie Nguyen
I’m naturally social but I hold myself back because I think people don’t want to hear me.”
That’s a surprising thing for someone like Caroline Mora to say. Driven, supportive, agreeable and funny, she gets along with people easily. She’s a senior who’s on the track team, values her family and her health, loves sports and attends Fountain Valley High School’s games.
Being sporty doesn’t mean she’s dumb like the jock stereotype in 2000s movies, obviously. She reads in her free time. Her favorite is “The Throne of Glass,” a fantasy novel series by Sarah J. Maas, author of other books such as the “A Court of Thorns and Roses” series and “House of Flame and Shadow.”
Music is another interest of Mora’s; she loves listening to artists like Hozier, so she enjoys going to concerts.
So what brings her to Baron Banner as a writer, despite her belief people don’t care for what she has to say?
“I like writing articles because people can choose what they want to hear from me,” Mora said. “People can read it if they want, but I’m not forcing it on them.”
Baron Banner isn’t just a place for Mora to express herself and grow, but an extracurricular activity as well as an elective. She happened to be looking for something to be both of those things. And she found it.