Friend Split
Grace Brusegaard
Left: Josie and Natalie Right: Asha and Grace
Josie Anderson and Natalie Cargin
Written By Eva Burbidge
Everyone has that one person that they tell everything to. But what if you weren’t able to see that person every day anymore? Natalie Cargin ’20 and Josie Anderson ’19, best friends at West High, will be going to different schools for the 2017-18 school year.
Cargin and Anderson met when they were in first and second grade. Cargin was friends with Lily Anderson ’19, Josie’s twin sister. “We were kind of forced to play together since Lily was friends with [Natalie],” Anderson said. But, the two girls quickly became friends and have been close ever since.
They’ve become even closer over the past few years, “I feel like our personalities [are] sort of shaped around each other since we grew up together.” Anderson said. Some of their favorite things to do with each other include going to Taylor Swift concerts and getting Starbucks on the way to school.
Both Cargin and Anderson both say that they will miss getting to see each other during lunch and in the hallways every day. “If something happens at school I won’t have anybody to go to, well I will, but it won’t be Josie.” Cargin said. But the two girls will still hang out with each other every weekend and whenever their busy schedules allow it.
Even though Cargin and Anderson will be going to separate schools next fall, they still both agree on one thing. They will always make time for each other.
past few years, “I feel like our personalities sort of shaped around each other since we grew up together.” Josie said. Some of their favorite things to do with each other include going to Taylor Swift concerts and getting Starbucks on the way to school.
Both Cargin and Anderson both say that they will miss getting to see each other during lunch and in the hallways every day. “If something happens at school I won’t have anybody to go to, well I will, but it won’t be Josie.” Cargin said. But the two girls will still hang out with each other every weekend and whenever their busy schedules allow it.
Even though Cargin and Anderson will be going to separate schools next fall, they still both agree on one thing. They will always make time for each other.
Asha Sandhu and Grace QV
Written By Grace Brusegaard
With Liberty High school opening this year, many students have been sectioned off into whether they are staying at West or going to Liberty. With this, many friend groups are being split causing some chaos. Grace Quast-Villafana ’20 and Asha Sandhu ’20 met in the eighth grade when Sandhu showed Quast-Villafana around North Central and they soon became best friends. Both sharing a passion for dance, they like to go to the rec center and practice together since they go to different studios. Now they are faced with the other going to a different school, Quast-Villafana at Liberty and Sandhu at West.
While there are many things that can be disappointing about not going to the same school as your best friend, Sandhu can really pinpoint what she will miss the most. “ I won’t see her every day and it just kind of sucks. I can’t go up in the hall and be like ‘hey Grace what’s up?’. I won’t see Grace’s smile and she always cheers me up when I’m having a bad day,” Sandhu said,”It’s just like not seeing each other every day, I feel like that’s a huge impact on a friendship.”
Quast-Villafana nodded her head in agreement and added, “ I won’t see Asha either, but we’ll still hang out on the weekend and whatever, we just won’t see each other at school.”
Besides not being able to see a familiar face, the rivalry between the schools now and in the future might prove to be the hardest thing about going to different schools. “I know there is already a lot of bad blood occurring between Liberty and West, people are saying ‘oh Liberty is so annoying’ and it’s just not going to be good. I feel like the whole school rivalry will affect it greatly,” said Sandhu. “I think it will be bigger than a City-West rivalry,” Quast-Villafana added.
Although they won’t see each other every day their favorite things about each other will stay the same including mutual trust and being able to make any day much better. Since meeting each other both have found a change in their personalities for the better. Sandhu says, “Since I have met Grace, I’ve been more caring. I know that Grace has gone through a lot with her hip surgeries and I feel I’m more aware of what everyone is going through.” Quast-Villafana agreed that since meeting Asha she has become more outspoken and less timid.
With afterschool activities including dance team for school and competition dance with local studios, both find themselves very busy and do not know how often they will get to see each other once at different schools. “ [We’ll] probably [see each other] every three weeks, once a month. It’s always hard to find times to hang out after school already while we’re going to the same school and I feel once we go to different schools it will be even harder to find times to hang out,” Sandhu said.
Though it will prove difficult, the two know what aspects of their friendship will never change. “ I know that I could still go to Asha if I needed anything and I still feel like we will have a good friendship,” Quast-Villafana said. Soon after Sandhu responded, “ It’s just going to be hard to not see your friends every single day but hopefully it will stay the same out of school.”
