Andrea is going to be a senior next year at St. Edward’s University, she is interested in film, TV, and media. She is from Laredo, Texas where she usually resides with her parents when she is not in school and her sister who lives apart from the family. Andrea is a very bubbly and energetic person.
Q: Who or what is the most important thing to you?
A: family
Q: Who do you think of first when you think of love? What do you love about them? What have they done?
A: My parents, my mom and dad… I have always been close to my parents, like really close. I have an older sister but she was kind of always had a boyfriend and always out of the house. I was the baby of the family so I always did everything with them. They have done a lot, everything, and I grew up privileged and grateful to have had that life, I don’t know… I’ve just had a good life.
Q: How do you calm yourself down when you’re upset?
A: Probably just listen to music, I don’t really get angry easily or like grumpy or anything, but if I’m feeling more like sad more so than upset I listen to sad music.
Q: Where do you think happiness comes from? Have you felt happy being here? (Paris) Have you felt sad?
A: I guess when I am at my most comfortable, wether that be in the environment that I am in but usually more the people I am surrounded with such as my friends and family. Doing something I like… just doing nothing, I like to do nothing. Yes I am happy. Sad things include my luggage, and then two days ago when I left the group and ditched ya’ll when you all went to the Eiffel Tower, I said I’m gonna go to my room and sit down and do nothing and then I’m going to be like “I have no friends and everything hates me.”
Q: If you could create a perfect world what would it include? Why do you think people hate so much?
A: I would include less hate for everybody… less difficult circumstances for people, for people to live happily with life… I know that’s not possible but yeah. Utopia if possible. I think people are uncomfortable when people are different from them and sometimes people don’t know how to deal with that, that’s not me saying that racism is justified but I think people don’t know how to be with people who are not similar to them. They don’t like that.
Q: What is something that makes you uncomfortable? What is your greatest fear?
A: When I am in an environment where I feel overwhelmed, I just feel uncomfortable, and I just don’t like… I have to take myself out of that situation. Sensory overload and I need to chill. My greatest fear… like a stupid one is being upside down or being under water, I don’t like it very much. Like being under water and upside down is like a nightmare, like doing a flip underwater, that’s an actual nightmare. My big fear is being alone… yeah, not being understood.
Q: Who is your greatest bully?
A: Myself, yeah… I am very insecure, I always tell myself things that are not true and I have to tell myself those things are not true and I am always making assumptions for people. I’m just like “don’t that’s you not them, I don’t know what people are thinking”
Q: Hardest thing you have ever done? Hardest time in college?
A: I guess my freshmen year of High School I had a really hard time and that period of time was hard but I got through it. In college it was the first few weeks I moved out I moved from town and I did not see my family… you know coming from a close knit family. Getting used to like the first few weeks I was like I want to die I don’t want to be here, I hate this school and I hate everyone. I was like no one gets me but then sure enough you just make friends and I really like St. Edward’s now
Q: Who’s your best friend?
A: My best friend is, I’ll say two, Priscilla she is my roommate and BFF and I met her at St. Ed’s and my other BFF is Hannah Lauren and I have known her since Laredo and we reconnected in college. All of us are friends and we’re moving together next august, the three of us… and my parents.
Q: Did you make friends High School that you thought were meaningful?
A: I did and I still have a few friends who are from Laredo but I don’t know, I just kind of moved and I felt like the friendships that did not sustain were not meant to be. I don’t know I was just fine with that. I was kind of excited to get away (from her hometown) I was kind of a floater in high school… just there.
Q: What is an assumption you fear people will make about you?
A: Like basic or boring. When I first met people at St. Ed’s all of them were like “Oh I never expected you to be like that or act like that” or “wow just based on appearance I never expected you to be like that.” I always tell my friend that I am such a contradiction, I won’t elaborate, but I am a contradiction.