Soyini is following her dream

For Soyini Fraser, the fact that she won the Miss Guyana Universe title and will be representing Guyana at the Miss Universe Pageant in the Philippines in January 2017 is finally taking root in her consciousness.

“Now it’s sinking in that I won. Every morning I step out now, it’s totally different,” she said in an interview with The Scene. “My friends don’t say ‘good morning Soyini’ anymore; instead it’s ‘good morning Miss Universe,’” she joked.

There has been a lot of public chatter—most of it on social media—since the September 17 pageant about who did