EMMA LAM

MVHS '18 Alumna

Lam turned to Ananya Bhat, who she was on a picnic with at Cupertino’s Memorial Park.

“When you speak it always makes me feel good, because you put everything I say, complete garbage, into something that’s great.”

Lam turns to me.

“I love listening to her talk. And I guess in terms of something that’s good this year, she’s turning 21, so I’m thinking of, not celebrating by having a party or anything, but I just want to get her balloons. Buy her alcohol. That probably shouldn’t go in a student newspaper. But something like that, where we’re normal — I want to just continue living normal life. Not like ‘Let me go around maskless doing whatever I want to do,’ but more like ‘Let’s try and maintain some normalcy in life.’ I literally went over to my friend’s house and bought her boba, and just left it on her porch. And [as] I was watching her, I saw her face light up and I was like ‘Ohhh! Feeling good on a Friday. Joy on a Friday for the first time in what, eight months?’”