“The world was hers for the reading.”

-Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Hi! My name is Zayda. I was born on February 9, 2003, and I’m 15. I was born in New Jersey in the US, but I’m Filipino. I’ve been in Myanmar for eight years, almost nine. However, I still can’t speak Myanmar. I can speak Filipino and English fluently, and I used to learn ASL by signing to songs. I stopped, but I’m planning on taking it up again. I have a twin sister, my mom, my grandparents, three uncles, five cousins, and eight aunts.

Things I Like

• Books, such as
  • Percy Jackson
  • Kane Chronicles
  • The Land of Stories
  • The Trials of Apollo
  • Magnus Chase and The Norse Gods
  • The Mortal Instruments
  • The Infernal Devices
  • The Dark Artifices
• Music, such as
  • Taylor Swift
  • Fall Out Boy
  • My Chemical Romance
  • Twenty One Pilots
• Chocolate
• Ice Cream
• Sleep
• Dan and Phil
• Marvel (Especially Captain America and Bucky Barnes)
• The Greenhouse Academy

I know. Nerd. The bookshelf at home contains literally stacks of books. My mom sighs whenever my sister and I go to a bookstore. When we go back to school shopping in the Philippines, we get distracted by the books. Books!

I’m also a feminist. I tend to talk about human rights, women’s rights, what’s going on in the US, and equality often. I can and will rant about those topics if you get me going, although quite a lot of it is centered around the US since that’s what I see online most of the time. Anyway, that’s it about me.