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Esha Joshi

Esha Joshi, Arts & Culture Writer

Esha Joshi (10) is an Arts & Culture writer, and this is her second year on staff. She is looking forward to working on her journalistic writing this year and getting to explore various topics. In her free time, she likes to read, write, crochet, and eat various kinds of fruit.

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Family Favorite Traditions

Esha Joshi, Staff Writer November 19, 2024

   From building snowmen to visiting temples to cooking up holiday feasts, Pinewood families all have their unique traditions during the holiday season. Whether intended to usher in a cozy winter or...

Pinewood Students Visit Shakespeare Festival in Ashland

Esha Joshi, Staff Writer October 8, 2024

   The recent trip to Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival gave students a chance to see Shakespeare’s often incomprehensible language come to life on stage in both humorous and tragic ways. Led...

Pinewood Divided: Toilet Paper Wars

Pinewood Divided: Toilet Paper Wars

Esha Joshi, Staff Writer May 3, 2024

   On Feb. 26, the day students and faculty returned from Ski Week, Pinewood’s normally peaceful campus was transformed into a warzone. The hallways were full of the usual lively chatter about break...

Review of Heritage Day

Esha Joshi, Staff Writer May 2, 2024

Three Heritage Day events at Upper Campus gave the Pinewood community the chance to acknowledge its diverse, interconnected heritage. From student-run tables stocked with cultural foods to traditional...

Pinewood Choirs Sing and Learn in Brazil Trip

Pinewood Choirs Sing and Learn in Brazil Trip

Esha Joshi, Staff Writer March 27, 2024

   The humid heat of Brazil clung to us as we stepped out of the Galeão International Airport to begin the choir performance trip. Because we arrived after Carnaval, the country’s biggest festival,...

2024 in Movies

2024 in Movies

Esha Joshi, Staff Writer February 4, 2024

   The year 2024 got off to a strong start in cinemas with the highly anticipated musical adaptation of “Mean Girls” hitting theaters on Jan. 12, but the line-up of adaptations, spin-offs and new...

Esha Finds Comfort in Hindu Music

Esha Joshi, Staff Writer November 16, 2023

   On each day of Ganesh Chaturthi, a Hindu festival dedicated to the god Ganesha, my house hums with excitement. There’s the beautiful altar we construct with fresh fruits on silver platters and flowers...

Credit: Pinewood Performing Arts

Fall Play: Argonautika Transports Viewers to Ancient Greece

Esha Joshi and Didem Becer October 18, 2023

  Each year, the arrival of a fall play transforms Pinewood’s small theater into a different setting altogether. This year, one can expect to be transported back to Ancient Greece for the show Argonautika.     The...

Seniors Shoutout Teachers That Impacted Them

Seniors Shoutout Teachers That Impacted Them

Esha Joshi, Features Writer May 2, 2023

From patiently guiding us through phonics sets in kindergarten to explaining complicated formulas, and from mediating arguments between stubborn eight-year-olds to checking in with  stressed-out high...

Why Having Friends is Overrated

Why Having Friends is Overrated

Esha Joshi, Features Writer March 29, 2023

Humans are social creatures. At least that’s what everyone tells you. But what if they’re wrong? What if “science” has pulled a veil over your eyes about the true nature of human relationships? It...

REGIONAL RECOGNITION Samantha Hsiung, Sophia Yao, Rachel Aronson, Emma Hwang, Kathleen Xie, and Sophia Cheng all won awards in this year's Scholastic Arts and Writing Competition.

Pinewood Students Rack Up Scholastic Awards

Esha Joshi, Features Writer March 1, 2023

A succinct and poignant ode to the experience of grief. A heartbreakingly honest stream of consciousness seamlessly weaving together science and love. A colorful, evocative painting that provokes thought...

Two-Time Poetry Out Loud Winner: Emma Hwang

Two-Time Poetry Out Loud Winner: Emma Hwang

Esha Joshi, Features Writer February 2, 2023

Students might think of poetry as something dull, inaccessible, and outdated. To most, its only purpose might be for tedious analysis during English classes or lifeless recitations in elementary school.  Poetry...

Linden Tree Visits Pinewood

Linden Tree Visits Pinewood

Esha Joshi, Features Writer November 9, 2022

   The two lunchtime Book Discoveries hosted this year featured students gulping down ice-cold milk, plates piled up with cookies, and a colorful and diverse spread of popular novels.     English...

PSP Summer: An Exploration in Social Justice and Business 

PSP Summer: An Exploration in Social Justice and Business 

Esha Joshi, Features Writer October 5, 2022

In the week before the first day of school, many students were frantically searching for school supplies and adjusting their sleep schedules. Those enrolled in the Pinewood Scholars Program, however, spent...

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