Bakersfield College students, eagerly looking forward to the day in February that celebrates canoodling one’s better half, all have their unique ways of enjoying it.
Most BC students preferred to canoodle over noodles-Italian pasta, that is.
BC student Issac Alcazar, 19, would like to go to the beach, specifically Oxnard Shores and the Silver Strand south of Santa Barbara, he said. “There are restaurants there and things to do, ” he said.
Alcazar’s friend, Adriana Gonzales, 19, concurs.
“I’d go to the beach, yeah,” she said.
BC student Whitney Jackson, 18, touted the virtues of Bakersfield restaurants CafÇ Med and Luigi’s for warming up a main squeeze.
CafÇ Med is pretty and peaceful, plus it’s romantic, she enthused.
Jackson’s friend, Maggie Dawson, 18, loves the restaurants Olive Garden and Fruggati’s.
“Italian food! It’s the best!” she said.
She said the atmosphere at the Olive Garden lends itself to romance.
Dawson’s friend, Ned Champress, 19, said he preferred taking his flame to the beach.
Undeclared major, A. J. Ledoux, 19, says he would spend time doing something both he and his girlfriend would both like.
“Maybe bowling. I don’t know,” he said.
Liberal Arts major Steffen Dircks, 19, said he would do something “generic.”
“I’d take someone to a restaurant. Something Italian. The Macaroni Grill, I guess, ” he said.
BC student Jessica Cureton said watching movies in the privacy of one’s own home with one’s love interest is preferable to going to a theater. However, she also recommends going to the restaurant Olive Garden for “atmosphere, good music, and candlelight.”
“They also sell wine by the glass there,” she said. She also recommended Frugatti’s.
“They have the best pizza in town, I can tell you that,” she said.
BC student Alex Chicca recommends the Bakersfield restaurant Little Italy on Stockdale Highway as a prerequisite for romance.
Other students think home is where the heart is. BC student Julie Baron said, “We just stayed in his house and watched movies, mostly comedies. He got me a bouquet of flowers with carnations in it and a teddy bear.”
Other BC students are down on love.
BC student Jeannine Porter says she is very “anti-Valentine’s,” after being married for six years.
“It’s (Valentine’s Day) so commercialized. But I love it that the candy goes on sale the day afterward.”
She said she had no idea whether her boyfriend was planning on doing anything special this year.