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Three Penny Press

The student news site of Bellaire High School

Three Penny Press

The student news site of Bellaire High School

Three Penny Press

Pranalisree Rajarajan performed at Bellaire International Student Association’s 2023 Cultural Festival. She was center for the song Attention by NewJeans.

In-person and Instagram: Junior discovers passion, posts dance videos

Clarissa Li, Reporter January 29, 2024

White top on, she’s the "swan" of the night. Center-stage, she’s got everyone’s attention. She can’t see the crowd, but the crowd certainly can see her. Junior Pranalisree Rajarajan has been...

Rather than studying in the typical way, Misra reads a Chinese novel about a female perspective of the February 28 incident.  [Learning] is less intentional studying and more just natural exposure to language, he said.

Expanding culture through language

Dawson Sotiriades, Reporter January 29, 2024

Language classes serve a variety of purposes for students, like being an important part of their college applications, exposing them to different cultures and giving them the chance to learn and master...

The eMotion dancers come together to close the Fall Show with “Dance the Night Away.” Senior Ryan Davalos (center) co-choreographed the routine.

Weaving the steps together

Tanvi Dubey, Shyla Jogi, and Hannah Turner January 19, 2024

Ryan Davalos - 12th Grade “I finally found something that I can say defines who I am.” Senior Ryan Davalos had never considered himself a dancer. He immersed himself in other activities: soccer,...

Linda poses with her friends at a beach in Italy. The beach is called Spiaggia di Villanova.

Exchanging identities for education

Sophia Zhao, Entertainment Editor January 18, 2024

5,539 miles across the world, senior Linda Quarti packed her entire life into one suitcase. Excitement, anticipation, and anxiousness were all she felt as her father, brother Lucas, and she boarded...

Beautification Club members hold up the posters they created during Cardinal Hour for their Nov. 1 Halloween fundraiser. While the fundraiser did not have as high of an attendance as the clubs president, senior Abigail Alvarez, had hoped, the Alvarez still enjoyed seeing her club members bond during the event.

Beautification through volunteerism

Claire Bradford, Features Editor January 17, 2024

Last year, senior Abigail Alvarez noticed that her senior friends wanted to get involved in clubs and volunteering but “didn’t really know how to.” Her peers all had the same problem: with the pandemic...

Ryans received All District MVP at the end-of-year volleyball banquet. I tried to be the perfect student, the perfect daughter, the perfect athlete, and it was just unnecessary, Ryans said. Really. It was kind of dumb. So Im like the only perfect person was Jesus and you are nowhere near Jesus, Alex. So like what are you doing?

She was at ‘rock bottom.’ Then she saw Jesus.

Emma Xiao, Online Editor January 13, 2024

Senior Alexandra Ryans saw Jesus three years ago. A freshman at Morton Ranch High School, she had just finished online school for the day and was sitting at the table downstairs at her dad’s house....

HUMANS OF BELLAIRE - Jenny Sun

HUMANS OF BELLAIRE – Jenny Sun

Audrey Han, Print Editor January 10, 2024

“A microphone, pop filter and my own little determination. [I started voice acting] in eighth grade, so I was like 12 or 13 at the time. I did it by myself because I originally wanted to do actual...

Christine Dimacali prepares to shoot free throws at a Bellaire girls basketball game against Lamar last year.

All or nothing

Emay Kong, Reporter January 8, 2024

Leaving basketball behind Junior Christine Dimacali sat on the bleachers at a Nov. 28 home basketball game to support her old teammates, the team she played with for the last two years. All she wanted...

Spartak Arutunyan sits at a photo shoot to grow his interest in fashion. Hes expecting to do many more in the future.

A passion for fashion

Grace Turney, Entertainment Editor December 30, 2023

He walked into kindergarten dressed in something he’d never worn before. A dark blue and burgundy sweater adorned with an argyle print, navy sweatpant-turned shorts and long white socks that reached...

This was one of the defining moments for Carrillos travelling adventure. Ever since her trip to Greece, shes wanted to pursue travelling.

‘It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience’

Johanna Wen, Art Director December 29, 2023

It was the light shining over the horizon that did it. The Athens mountains fading into the clear skies and the buildings small, all over the marble pantheon. She felt like she could see the world. “It...

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