La Vista’s Executive News Editor and her favorite (and only) devoted Staff Writer

Andonia (bottom left) and Kelly (bottom right) are constantly asked why they don’t have a reality TV show, as they are both multi-talented and super interesting. Their answer is always that La Vista is their main priority and that they would never abandon the beloved friendships that they have developed in the class.

By Andonia Goergen, Executive News Editor

and Kelly Fraenkel, Staff Writer

Many people ask us, “How do you two not have a show on Bravo?” The answer is simple; we are too busy being the backbone of La Vista to make time for our reality TV debut.

As two sad and miserable freshmen, we did not know the pain and suffering that the next three years would bring us. We have finally regained a small sliver of inner peace now that we have mastered the art of article writing; continued to turn our first drafts in on-time and with absolutely no edits needed; and getting praised by the entire La Vista staff and Mac daily, with our photos being hung up in the La Vista room and chanted to at least three times per day.

Wait a minute, did you think we were actually telling the truth? Well, NEVER judge a book by its cover. Don’t believe everything you read in the news, except for when you read La Vista because we are a distinguished and credible news source for all of the Costa students who use the paper to tape up their windows or for their useful compost bins.

Andonia: My La Vista journey began as a sophomore, where I was forced to retreat back to my humble roots: Mrs. Duclos’ sixth grade journalism class, where I wrote a plethora of one-paragraph reviews of Adam Sandler movies. Little did I know that La Vista would consist less of one-paragraph reviews and more of big, fat F’s on first drafts. However, I miraculously became the executive news editor, and my primary goal was to make Kelly’s life miserable. My second goal was to share news with the community.

Kelly is the only senior Staff Writer to exist possibly in the entire history of La Vista, but without her, our section would be in shambles, much like Dixie D’Amelio’s music career.

Kelly: Having been indoctrinated into La Vista during my senior year, I missed out on much of the fun in-person La Vista anecdotes, so I have lived vicariously through Andonia and Taylor’s stories. Online La Vista does not compare to in-person La Vista, so I am left with no stories of my La Vista journey, other than being bullied by Andonia. We have a better chance of regrowing Van Gogh’s ear than explaining to you how we became the ultimate pair of hooligans and why we joined La Vista, as it has been the best time of our lives.

We love La Vista a lot and are not at all being forced to write this. Even though we have been forced to abandon the temple of Lil Huddy (a.k.a the La Vista back room) due to distance learning, if we were in person, we would have been able to hold a seance for Andonia’s dead editor career because she has no consistent staff writers except for Kelly.

Here, we would like to take a moment of silence for the Oxford comma, which we are explicitly forbidden from using. It comes at great personal sacrifice, but we have persevered and conquered.

Despite our grammatic integrity being compromised, La Vista has been a wonderful experience for all involved, and we are so grateful that our eight-year-long friendship was able to be strengthened by continuously staring at each other while on the La Vista Zooms.

Farewell, La Vista. We will miss you and all of your quirks as we matriculate to our Bravo reality TV show, which you can watch at 9 p.m. EST starting June 18.