If you see a young man in a soccer jersey, looking smart and darting around the hallways, you may have caught a glimpse of sixth grader Zabiere “Zabi” Borjas. Borjas was excited to come from Corpus Christi Catholic School when he joined Seabury this August. “Every Thursday,” Borjas remembers, “We would have to deal with a kindergartner in mass. Me and Thomas [Helling] had to deal with the same one. We couldn’t even keep him under control. Luckily now no one here is younger than me.” He is also happy that some Seabury rituals feel less onerous than Corpus. “Chapel was longer, like an hour on Thursday,” he says. Borjas is relieved when chapel ends in less than twenty minutes.
Borjas is very enthusiastic about Seabury classes, saying that they are “so far so good.” “Science and Histography are my favorite classes,” he says. “I like the assignments and the projects in Histography.” Borjas particularly liked learning about the Korean War and the Opium War from faculty member Sara Asher. He excitedly says that in his science class “[he] also got to make a musical instrument.”
On an un-academic note, Borjas appreciates Seabury’s quirks, such as funny morning meeting announcements or “whenever someone calls someone out during morning meeting or lunch, and someone goes, ‘Ooooohhhhhh.’ It was really surprising when I saw a bunch of high schoolers calling anyone out,” he says.
In his free time, Borjas likes to “[play] basketball…because [he] can just walk over to [his] neighbor’s house who has a court, so [he] can be playing as soon as [he gets] home from school.” When he is not tearing up the court, draining threes and setting picks, he likes to read Percy Jackson books, echoing his interest in Greek mythology.
Borjas is excited for Seabury’s tennis season next semester. He is a committed athlete, playing tennis in the off season, adding that his brother, senior Sebastian Borjas, “did not even play tennis in sixth grade.”
“One thing I find annoying [at Seabury] is [my brother,] Sebastian Borjas,” Borjas jokes. “He was already breaking into my room, but now I see him at the front of the room every day during Morning Meeting,” he says. After some heavily sarcastic lines, Borjas adds begrudgingly, that he enjoys having his brother at school “sometimes.”
Less than a semester into Seabury, Borjas’s enthusiasm and humor has brightened the school. Let’s make him feel welcome.
