Salut! My name is Glorianne Besana.
Nicknames include but are not limited to: Glo, Dee, Amy, Gondor, Adam Smith,
Capitalist Pig. I’m Filipino American, First Generation and have a huge family. I am originally from Brooklyn , New York City, New York and am a proud
East Coast girl. After living in Brooklyn I moved to a suburb in New Jersey before finally settling here in Napa , California Napa ,
I was hit with culture shock. I was raised in an incredibly diverse environment
and while we all proud of our heritage, there was too many cultures to make a
defining line.
In my free time I usually read. My
favorite books are The Namesake by
Jhumpa Lahiri, Lolita by Vladimir
Nabokov, and The Things They Carried by
Tim O’Brien. My favorite poets are John Keats and W.B. Yeats. If I am not
getting lost in a fictional world I’m usually eating and avoiding my phone.
When I read, I prefer the gloomier days with a cup of tea (earl grey). These
days also give me a chance to wear my collection of argyle sweaters. My tumblr photoset of some argyle items of mine. Yes, this is my personal tumblr site. It's completely appropriate just full of strange stuff. Like my head.
I travel a lot. My mother likes to
say our family has “a bad case of wanderlust”. Over the next two years I will
be travelling without them. Instead of a sweet sixteen/ elegant
eighteen/debut/graduation present (all popular with Filipino girls), I asked my
parents to send me to Nepal
instead. I will be going with Mr. Hatton and other Napa High students for a
whole month, hiking in the Himalayas, caring for orphans, visiting Buddhist
temples, riding elephants, and relaxing in Kathmandu .
Because of my love for travel, I
love to learn new languages. I’m currently in the middle of learning French and
Tagalog (the national Filipino language) and beginning Nepalese. My biggest
regret in life is not learning Tagalog when I was younger because when I speak
it now, I can sound painfully American compared to my cousins. The only reason
why I can muster up an accent at all is because I enjoy acting and I love doing
different accents.
I aspire to be a doctor (I know,
Asian cliché), specifically an interventional cardiologist. I have always been
fascinated by the heart and by blood (take that any way you want). I have
bought numerous books on the human anatomy, even built a figure, and I find
myself drawn to cardiology. I plan to serve with Doctors Without Borders, a
humanitarian-aid organization that sends doctors to give health care to
war-torn countries and developing countries, for about two years. Here is a video by Napa County when I was nominated best in ROP Medical Science. And yes, I learned how to give a proper injection and everything else in the video. Injecting is my favorite.
At Napa High I am an active member
of the Sierra Club and French Club, Mock Trial, and Cross Country. Here is a photo of me dying in the heat because I thought it would be smart to take on varsity and here's another one of me and my friend messing around before Mock Trial State Competition at Sacramento 2012. I work as an
assistant grader at a Japanese
Learning Center
