I enjoy drawing even though I know I’m not going to make a living out of it. I can’t draw realistically at all, but I do know some tips about realistic drawing, like how the shoulders have to be wider than a person’s head.
Why do you like drawing?
Because you can draw basically anything you want and it may be hard but it’s not impossible. I usually like to draw things like macaroons and cakes.
Sounds like you like to draw desserts.
Yes, definitely!
Do you have a favorite dessert to eat?
Hmmm…I can’t decide whether I like crème de cacao balls more than brownies. Crème de cocoa balls is this family recipe. It’s supposed to originally be chocolate nut balls but to make it more delicious, I guess, my family put in crème de cacao in it.
I also like downloading apps on my phone that has these pictures; it’s like an online coloring book. You can take these shades; you can take gradients; you can take solid colors and color it. It’s really relaxing and stress relieving – I mean, it’s not that I have stress on me all the time, but it is stress relieving.
Are you excited about being in fifth grade this year?
I mean, I’m excited for fifth grade but I’m not really excited for the end of it because I’ve only been at Holland my whole life and it’s kind of scary to go to another school. I mean some people know what switching schools is like, for kindergarten they’re at one school and then they’re at another school. I was in pre-K here. I know this whole school. I could walk through it blindfolded with my eyes closed and I would still know about it.
Have you thought about what you want to do when you grow up?
Well, I might want to know some French. But I also might want to carry on my mom’s baking business. But the main thing I want to do is to be a professional mermaid – maybe one that even works on the trapeze. It’s an actual professional job. I first saw this when my grandma was on her phone on Facebook and she was like, “Oh, look at your aunt’s cousin and she’s a professional mermaid, she works with the trapeze.” I was like, “Well, I want do that.” But it takes flexible, strong people to work on the trapeze, so I’m probably going to be one of the mermaids in Florida where there are tubes that they get the air from so they can swim in the water longer.
I didn’t even know that job existed.
Yeah. It’s an entertainment job. I’ve always wanted to be a YouTuber or a veterinarian or just something like that. One time I wanted to work at Sea World.
But I just have my mind set on this mermaid thing because getting paid to be a mermaid, like, who wouldn’t want to do that?
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