by Juniper Jones<\/p>\n
Enzo Blake is a senior from Purcellville, Virginia who is majoring in Teaching English as a Second Language with a concentration in East Asian Studies.\u00a0 Enzo\u2019s pronouns are he\/they.\u00a0 Enzo has taught all grades except 2nd grade and is currently student teaching as an ELL Instructor for grades 3-5 (and don\u2019t tell anyone but he likes middle schoolers the best out of all the grades he\u2019s worked with).<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0When asked what their biggest beef with how we celebrate St. Patrick\u2019s Day is, he said \u201cWe often do not recognize the roots of it, specifically the fact that St. Patrick wasn\u2019t Irish and he committed ethnocide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0One of Enzo\u2019s most unexpected flexes is that he is chill with all of the homies on the Valley Metro Bus System.\u00a0 Don\u2019t ask why!\u00a0 Enzo says, in response to the question of what he thinks of snow falling whilst the Spring flowers are in bloom, \u201cPainful but beautiful.\u00a0 Painful in the sense that we don\u2019t get any snow day, nor do my students who desperately need one.\u00a0 But it’s also aesthetically pleasing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The day of glitz and glam is quickly approaching and the rush to finally get that elegant wardrobe is consuming many of us.\u00a0 When asked who Enzo is wearing to the President\u2019s Ball, he replied \u201cI\u2019ll probably be wearing a good ol\u2019 experimental, Enzo-style raid of the Trans Closet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As is the tradition with senior interviews, we must know what Enzo plans to do once they graduate.\u00a0 He says \u201cMy hope is that I will make it through the second round of the JET Program and be able to teach abroad in Japan.\u00a0 In case I don\u2019t get in, I\u2019m lining up interviews for the Roanoke City, Salem City, Loudoun County, and Fairfax County school districts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Juniper Jones Enzo Blake is a senior from Purcellville, Virginia who is majoring in Teaching English as a Second Language with a concentration in East Asian Studies.\u00a0 Enzo\u2019s pronouns are he\/they.\u00a0 Enzo has taught all grades except 2nd grade and is currently student teaching as an ELL Instructor for grades 3-5 (and don\u2019t tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":7138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-7137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folks-at-noke","tag-summer2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot_20230317_110338_Docs.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}