My name is Astrid Brandt. I am a junior and exchange student from Sweden here at Vallivue High School. I was very excited to join the journalism class because I love to write, talk with people and create stories from the information I get. I enjoy all different types of stories but I especially like to write about and interview people that are passionate about their thing. Things that are not interesting to me at the beginning become important and very fun to write about when I know someone else cares about it. I hope that my stories can teach people new things and maybe make them interested in a new topic. My other goals this year are to get to know new people and their stories and learn how to write better and more interesting stories.