Q&A with Miss Cardinal contestant, Krystal Castellanos

Krystal Castellanos, a senior at SBHS who is a contestant of Mr. and Miss Cardinal reflects on the importance of community service and being a positive role model. She discusses her favorite movie, music, hobbies, as well as travel aspirations. 

I do nails in my free time and I’ve been doing them for four years now. I mostly draw on nails like characters.  I started during Covid because I didn’t have anything to do so I wanted to keep myself busy. I don’t really get stressed doing nails and having to go to school since I’ve already done them for two years while in school so I’ve already got used to it. I can manage my time doing mostly everything like school, the gym, sports, and doing nails.

I like Latin music; my favorite artist is Aventura.

I like shopping, buying nail things and I like going to the gym.

I’m very productive, responsible, and I also have really good time management. 

We would go to Big Bear a lot, my dad would take me, my sisters and my brother.

Europe and Italy. They’re different environments from what I’m used to and I want to try their different foods.

Well I’ve been in them since like freshman year so I got used to it. Right now, for my class rank, I’m in 12th but I used to be in 7th. I hurt myself Junior year because it was so hard for me, like my whole transcript was A’s until junior year so I went down because all my classes were advanced placement. 

Independence to me means being able to take care of yourself and not relying on anyone.

It’s important to give back, be involved, and meet new people within your community.

My greatest strength is academic wise and my weakness is getting overwhelmed and stressed.

I do nails in order to take my mind off of it for a while.

It’s important to me because I got to meet a lot of new people that I didn’t know but you have to be very out there, they tend to put people on the spot and that’s something that I don’t like at all. But overall it’s a fun experience. 

I honestly don’t have any regrets whatever happened, happened and I can’t control it.

To not get other people’s opinions and to do what I think is best for myself.

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