Blog Post #11 ~ The Names We Go By

My nickname that mostly everyone I know calls me is Jess short for Jessica. This nickname came from soccer last year my freshman year. Basically last year there were 2 Jessica’s on the high school soccer team and it would get really confusing when people would say our names on the field and when we would get subbed out we wouldn’t know which Jessica they were calling off. One day we got really tired of always not knowing who was calling which Jessica, so my teammates decided that I would be Jess and the other Jessica would just be Jessica. Ever since then the coaches and my teammates have called me Jess. My other nickname is “flaca” which stands for skinny. My dad and my uncle have called me this since I was 11. They call me this because they think that I’m skinny and its really just random. This nickname is private only my family calls me this. I personally would not like my friends calling me this because i would feel weird walking around school and then i just hear someone call me “flaca”.