We met in 9th grade when we were both new students. We were each other’s first friend in Sanskriti. It has been two years since our first meeting, and from two new students trying to find someone who understands, became friends.

And now we are a team. YAY!

 

Aashi: Aakruti is like the most amazing person to work with. She is responsible, smart and hardworking. She is also funny and cracks lame jokes but hey! You can’t be everything (laughs). 

The best thing about working with Aakruti is, she understands you as a person. She is a great listener and a great friend. And that is what makes her an amazing leader, her ability to know and understand people and also to work seriously and encourage others to work. We collaborate on everything and cover up for each other. Basically, we have each other’s back. Aakruti is the serious one, we often work late at night and while I am busy cracking jokes or laughing, Aakruti filters the sensical from the nonsense. When we come up with ideas, I work out the big picture, Aakruti works on the minute details, the necessary ones. So from trying to catch up with work together, we are doing work together, coming up with ideas and completing each... 

 

Aakruti: other’s sentences! (laughs louder) Well...we all need that one friend who is only one WhatsApp notification away, don't we ;P For me, Aashi has always been that friend. The most bubbly and chirpy girl ever, who can bring a smile on anyone's face! At the same time, she is the most supportive and hardworking person. Now that we are co-presidents, we have gotten into complete sync, and our minds click together 101 times out of 100. It is always a delight to work with her, be it 0100 hrs (yes that's 1 a.m. Aashi) The fact that we are always on the same page in whatever we decide and choose is best for our club, it takes us less than a minute to go ahead with our ideas, and helps us to get on with more brainstorming. Aashi has also instilled the best of her qualities in me, including optimism, extroverted nature and a bonus since she is a poet, the ability to look at things with a 720-degree flip.

 

Honestly, the Green Gazette was an idea we have both thought about many times. When we started thinking, it didn’t have a name or even the kind of content we wanted. It was just an idea that clicked in both of our minds and our team has made it possible to be more than an idea, to be an actual newsletter! We have worked hard, day and night, getting content, editing, re-editing, doing meets and what not to make this possible. Our whole Viridian team, the teachers, the board, the members, each and every one of them deserves a big (virtual) hug and a round of applause for all the hard work they have done. Viridian would just be a heading and not a club without all our amazing members.

 

I remember clearly the first day we talked about it. It was over WhatsApp (everything is over WhatsApp, don’t be surprised ;)

 

Aashi: We should have a newsletter 

Aakruti: YES!! We can have everyone in the school to contribute and YAY YAY viridian would have a newsletter.

Aashi: Oh god yesss! It would be awesome. Do you think I can edit?

Aakruti: Yessss you can! WAIT. We need permission from teachers. 

 

(a few emails, WhatsApp messages and discussions later)

 

Aakruti: We need a name.

Aashi: LET’S ASK OTHERS THEN!!

 

(a quick google form poll and few other discussions later)

 

Aashi: Okay, so we have like..what 7 names at the top from the 37 ideas we received? Just have to choose one.

Aakruti: Yes, just one.

Aashi: This is not going to be easy.

Aakruti: Oh no, not at all.

 

(A few discussions and sleepless nights later)

“Congratulations! Our newsletter is going to be called The Green Gazette”