How's that for a great title? (Haha). Hey, the first issue of the Eye Of The Storm came out! I'm not sure if I've told you that already. Anyway, I got the front page place I wanted! I'm a junior editor in the next issue! Yay, me!!! Homecoming football game is this Friday, so good luck team! (Insert school spirit here). It happens to be Spirit Week at Summit, and unfortunately we seem to be rather on the shallow end in terms of spirit. The question has been raised "does Summit know how to have school spirit?" I think it does. I think we just need to find something, one common thing that makes us all so happy or so angry we can't stand it, and then we'll have enough spirit to move molehills! (Woops, I think I meant mountains... didn't I?)
Anyway, Homecoming game means Homecoming Dance. Of course! More on that after the fact, because currently, just contemplating it makes me so excited and nervous that I start shaking and missspelling things and using words like "things" etcetera... Even just then, I had to type that sentence three times and delete various words several times in order to spell correctly and articulate my meaning in a coherent fashion. And yet still somehow, "misspelling" managed to receive three s'es. Ugh. Anyway, that's Rae's World In Brief for now. More on What's News in a few days after the world has settled down a bit.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Second Week in October
First school newspaper came out. I love that. It makes me feel like I'm a part of something. A community within Summit that is its own family. I loved seeing people carrying a copy around, seeing people reading it, and hearing them talk about it. I loved the way people would ask me if I had seen this article or that, and I would just smile and nod. And humor their enthusiasm, as though I hadn't read through the article with a fine toothed comb in the editing and refining of the paper. It's like that one bundle of paper can draw the whole school together, if only for a few moments.
Alas, it seems a few moments is not enough. Summit played Bend High last night in a football match that we were sure we would win. Unfortunately, when student's egos get away from them, things tend to go wrong. 40-0, not in our favor. But on the bright side, at least that wasn't the Homecoming game. And just as a side-note, no matter what happens, the band always wins.
Alas, it seems a few moments is not enough. Summit played Bend High last night in a football match that we were sure we would win. Unfortunately, when student's egos get away from them, things tend to go wrong. 40-0, not in our favor. But on the bright side, at least that wasn't the Homecoming game. And just as a side-note, no matter what happens, the band always wins.
First week in October
Wow. Already a month into Junior year. There were two college-fair type things this week. A college visitation on Monday, and an actual fair on Thursday. But were quite informative. I feel a little weird about the fact that I actually like sitting in a stuffy room with a bunch of other snot-nosed teenagers listening to someone try to convince us to attend their college. The visitation was half the day, so I got out of science, and third period (open) and almost out of fourth period too.
On the day of the fair, school started late, and the freshman and sophomores were taking their ACT Plan and Explore tests. The bus scheduled to take us to Redmond (where the college fair was held) wouldn't be at the school until 8:50. Many people simply slept in, but my friends and I did not. In the spare time between 7:30 when we got to school and when the bus arrived, Max Dunkelberg and I went to breakfast at the Sage Cafe across the street from Summit.
A college fair is an experience quite unlike any other I have known, except maybe the videos of Saturday Markets in Singapore from the 1800's. There were so many people, it was difficult to tell where I was in relation to anything else. The colleges were represented by booths set up in long rows, and the milling chaos between the rows was the necessary highway to the other side. It's the type of thing where one has to have a plan before they enter, or they could get trampled within seconds.
Friday, there's a football game against Bend High. If Summit wins, it will be the fifth win in a row. Best of luck.
On the day of the fair, school started late, and the freshman and sophomores were taking their ACT Plan and Explore tests. The bus scheduled to take us to Redmond (where the college fair was held) wouldn't be at the school until 8:50. Many people simply slept in, but my friends and I did not. In the spare time between 7:30 when we got to school and when the bus arrived, Max Dunkelberg and I went to breakfast at the Sage Cafe across the street from Summit.
A college fair is an experience quite unlike any other I have known, except maybe the videos of Saturday Markets in Singapore from the 1800's. There were so many people, it was difficult to tell where I was in relation to anything else. The colleges were represented by booths set up in long rows, and the milling chaos between the rows was the necessary highway to the other side. It's the type of thing where one has to have a plan before they enter, or they could get trampled within seconds.
Friday, there's a football game against Bend High. If Summit wins, it will be the fifth win in a row. Best of luck.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Busy busy bees!!!
Lots of stuff going on right now! Summit News Staff presents the first issue of the 2011-2012 school year paper, the football team has a game against Bend High School on Friday, (lots of pressure there, not going to even attempt to be polite about it). Also, Homecoming draws ever nearer. I had an awesome time at lunch today playing Scrabble with Cheezits with Max Dunkelberg. I am positive I spelled cheezit incorrectly, but at this point, it doesn't really matter much.
Poor Mr. McDonald is ill!!! He evidently has water in his ear (although how that correlates to being ill, I have no idea.)
We made videos in AP Language and Composition. I think people liked mine, but I can't really tell from everyone's reactions. Part of that might be the fact that I went first. I like to set the bar really high. (It's just one of those things...)
I'm boycotting events in large groups of unnecessary people. This means most group events, but alas, I am a solitary creature at heart. (I'm sure there's a reference to some great piece of Literature in there somewhere, but I can't quite remember what it might have been.)
What else... too much for me to think of right now. Although I will doubtlessly be writing frantically sometime next week as well. Does once a week seem like enough? I feel like every day might start to get a bit monotonous....
PS: Two college fairs this week! Woot! I'm attending both of them like the good little word nerd that I am. Tee Hee!!!
Poor Mr. McDonald is ill!!! He evidently has water in his ear (although how that correlates to being ill, I have no idea.)
We made videos in AP Language and Composition. I think people liked mine, but I can't really tell from everyone's reactions. Part of that might be the fact that I went first. I like to set the bar really high. (It's just one of those things...)
I'm boycotting events in large groups of unnecessary people. This means most group events, but alas, I am a solitary creature at heart. (I'm sure there's a reference to some great piece of Literature in there somewhere, but I can't quite remember what it might have been.)
What else... too much for me to think of right now. Although I will doubtlessly be writing frantically sometime next week as well. Does once a week seem like enough? I feel like every day might start to get a bit monotonous....
PS: Two college fairs this week! Woot! I'm attending both of them like the good little word nerd that I am. Tee Hee!!!
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