Let’s start with Isabel’s name. She thinks it fits her, and combined with her middle name, Maria, also her grandmother’s middle name, it’s very Spanish-like. She has been called many nicknames, mostly by her siblings, including Triz and Il (that’s “I” and “L”, pronounced as if she is diseased.) Isabel has three crazy siblings – an older sister, a younger sister, and a younger brother – but they have never had any pets besides a short-term fish. Isabel currently lives in Jordan but has also resided in Kuwait and the Phillipines, though if she could live anywhere in the world she would pick the States, where she has ties to South Carolina.
Isabel is sixteen and entering her junior year of high school. She has been attending TPS for seven lengthy but productive years. Her favorite school subjects are English and History, and this year with TPS, she will be taking AP Macro/Micro Economics, AP US History, AP Lang, and Precalculus.. This is Isabel’s third year at clay but her first as an editor, so wish her success! She wrote the Baking column for the past two years since baking is one of her many varied hobbies, which also include photography, theater, and crocheting. She is also a proficient and experienced writer and has used her talents to organize writing clubs and writing contests within TPS. Isabel reads frequently, enjoying C. S. Lewis and The Lord of the Rings, but she especially loves Jane Austen’s books – she’s read them all! If she could go back in time and meet historical figures, she would love to meet Jane Austen, George Washington, and Eve.
Enough with the dry facts; what about Isabel’s personality? She’s an ISTJ on the Meyers-Briggs, for starters, a personality known for its pragmatism and logic. She’s a perfectionist, which means she motivates herself to work hard. Some of her pet peeves are when her siblings look over her shoulder when she’s reading or on the computer or when people don’t use oxford commas. (Watch out, columnists!)
Now for some random factoids you never knew you needed to know. If Isabel could do anything for a day, she would love to spend a day at a living history museum. Though her favorite color used to be pink, she’s not sure anymore. The best gifts she’s ever received were a camera she got for Christmas and a KitchenAid stand mixer she got for her birthday, both from her parents, launching her further into the worlds of photography and baking. If she could eat only one meal for the rest of her life, it would be spaghetti the way her grandfather makes it, and if she could change just one thing about herself, she would make herself taller (she’s almost 5’4’’).
In terms of her future, though Isabel wanted to be a teacher when she was little, she’s not sure where she envisions herself in five years. Maybe she’ll end up fulfilling several of her passions! For now, she concentrates on Jeremiah 29:11, which reminds her that God has a beautiful plan for her life.