Tessie attends GALA, Girls Academic Leadership Academy. However, suppose you ask her what GALA stands for. In that case, she’s most likely going to respond (with utter confidence), “Girls Academy Leadership Academy” because she’s “so funny and creative and totally not stupid and unoriginal ;)”. Her hobbies include playing soccer, yelling at her- tutoring her little sister, and reading when she’s not doing her homework. Her name is NOT Anastasia. She was always named Tessie/Tess, after the Red Sox song and one of the Red Sox mascots (Red Sox being a Boston baseball team). Tessie is the Essays Editor of the Literary Magazine titled The Lilith. This means that she looks through all the essays the literary agents write and edits them or picks (or rather, has a say in) which ones go into the magazine. She also LOVES to write, yet only really gets the opportunity to when she’s doing an assignment.