Greetings Villanova Odyssey readers,

I have been struggling to think of a topic idea for my first article, and then I remembered that cliché saying, "write what you know." So, in the least narcissistic way possible, the thing I know most about is me! Thus, I thought an introduction would be most fitting as I am slightly blocked, and I'm a newbie.

My name is Sophia Pedro and I am a freshman from West Hartford, CT. Fun fact: EVERYONE pronounces my last name wrong, but I have stopped correcting them. Technically it is pronounced PEE-dro, but when I tell people that I get slightly embarrassed, so I usually just don't. Side note: that's how my friends from home spell my last name in their contact for me. *roll eyes emoji* Those gosh dang Portuguese had to make their last names confusing to pronounce.

Anyway, some of my favorite things to do are go to the beach (even though I live almost an hour from a really sucky beach), play volleyball, hang out in my hammock (10/10 best purchase ever), go for destination less car rides jamming to God knows what's on my playlist, make friendship bracelets, draw (whatever cutesy stuff I find on Pinterest), and once in a while eat gluten, because if you're gluten-free you know how bad you just really want it sometimes.

I'm very excited to finally have an outlet in which I can share my most meaningful and random thoughts. I hope you all enjoy my content (weird, now I sound like a YouTuber or something) and even if you don't, thanks for reading anyway.

Ta ta for now,

Sophia