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CHANCELLOR HIGH SCHOOL 6300 HARRISON ROAD, FREDERICKSBURG, VA 22407

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SAVANNAH AVERSAEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

FAITH REMICKLAYOUT EDITOR

BRIANA BUTCHER CHRISTELLE TEMPLE

NEWS EDITOR

HANNAH CLOVENFEATURES EDITOR

KAITLYN GARVEYSPORTS EDITOR

CARA SEELY AND

EMMA PURCELL OP-ED EDITORS

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Charger 1 Charger 2 Charger 3 Charger 4Names to choose from. Note: There are more names than pictures!

Pheonix, Chip, Morrigan, Shiloh, Tigger, Peppa, Baylee, Ranger, Stripes

WEBB STEALS THE SHOW

Congratulations to our last year’s Chancellor High School Boys Soccer Team on winning their first round game in the State Tournament. Coach Mike Webb also celebrated his 500th win on this day. The team took the win in the states quarter final against Grafton High School. The staff would like to wish Webb another

fantastic season.

On the front cover, Garrett Peck is shown

swinging for the green.

On the Back Cover Aus-tin Hall is shown cool-

ing off after a play.

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The Journalism students at Chancellor High School publish The Lightning Bolt, the only official newspaper on campus. The purpose of the newspaper is to factually inform and entertain its readers. As an established open forum for the student body, truth will be the staff’s major goal. It is the responsibility of each staffer to adhere to the journalism code of ethics as set by the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi. The code states that a journalist can not accept gifts, favors or privileges that could compromise their integrity. All material published will be the result of brainstorm sessions by the staff. Subjects stimulating to the majority of the student body will be used. The editorial board, which is comprised of all newspaper staff members will determine the priority of the stories and the overall design of publication. The advisor serves to give students a better understanding of the functions and ethics of a free press. The advisor does not serve as a censure. Student editors will decide the material to be published. In accordance with community standards, profanity will not appear in the publication. Students are free to express an opinion on matters of public interests under the, “fair comment rule.” Under this rule, the student has the right to intelligently criticize the school and its policies. Editorials reflect the opinion of The Lightning Bolt. Opinion stories reflect the opinion of the writer and do not represent the opinion of the faculty and administrWation of Chancellor High School. Controversial issues will be covered from both points of view. School news, as well as local, national and international events will also be covered. Letters to the editor are welcomed. All letters must be signed and be between 200- 300 words long. They may be submitted to A113 or by e-mailing chhslightningbolt@yahoo.com. The Lightning Bolt retains the right to edit letters to comply with journalistic standards. Anonymous letters will not be published. This is your school, help improve it through your opinions, praises, and constructive criticisms. If voiced aloud and in large enough numbers, we can bring about change. Our ultimate goal is to print the truth and with your help we can reach this goal.

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EDITORIALWE ARE ALL BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

By Savannah AversaEditor-In-Chief With all the social media be-ing the center points for peo-ple’s lives, I feel like it is hard to love yourself. It is hard because you compare yourself to the in-fluencers, to the models, and just to other people who you go to school with. We look at ourselves and pick apart every detail that we think is wrong or isn’t perfect. It doesn’t matter if you are skin-ny, thick, fluffy, or muscular,

we all have things that we want to change about ourselves no matter how much people tell us that we look amazing or beau-tiful or perfect. The thoughts just go running through our minds. It’s sad really. We feel the need to impress everyone else that our happiness comes last, our health comes last, and our mental health comes last. There are ways to fix it. There are ways that we can bring each other up. There are ways to get

out of our own heads. It is hard but you have to think positive. Don’t drag yourself down over small things like looks, clothes, or social media posts. Be grate-ful of what you have. Some people wish that they have what you have and vice versa. We are all human and we all have imperfections. The fact of the matter is that we just have to embrace them. We have to be confident with what we have. Though it is tough to be confident, it is even worse if

you just don’t believe in your-self. If you look confident, if you walk confidently, and if you talk confidently then peo-ple will believe you are confi-dent even if you don’t. We need to start accepting one another for who we are. No matter what we look like or what situation we are in. Things need to change. We have to improve this genera-tion’s outlook for the better be-cause if we don’t, who will?

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EMAIL SUBMISSIONS TO LGATTIE@SPOTSYLVANIA.K12.VA.US.

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Akeila Edwards after she com-peted in the Virginia State Championship. She was a graduate of the 2019 class and now runs track at Virginia State University.

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NEWS “It [Chancellor] looks like a good environment, so I’m looking forward to just everything here this year,” said Kristina Stanley. As a new year begins at Chan-cellor High School, it comes with a lot of new faces of not only students, but teachers as well. One of those new faces is Kris-tina Stanley, geometry teacher at Chancellor High School. Stanley grew up in High Point, North Caro-lina and went to East C a r o l i n a University, where she received her undergraduate degree in sec-ondary math education and a Master’s degree in middle grades math education. Stan-ley originally went to college to study in the medical field, but changed her major her fresh-man year. “I ended up switch-ing [majors] because I ended up liking math quite a bit, and I’ve been in the classroom on and off since I was younger because my mom is an e l e m e n -tary school t e a c h e r ,” said Stan-ley. During the sum-mers, Stan-ley and her sister would help their mom in the classroom. Stanley’s hobbies include fishing with her husband and hanging out with fam-ily. When she lived in Stafford, she and her husband liked to fish the Potomac River. Stan-ley’s favorite author is Jodi Pi-coult. “I’ve read several of her

books,” said Stanley. In high school, Stanley was a member of National Honor Society, National Technical Honor So-ciety, and Renaissance Club. She also played softball for two years in middle school and three years in high school. “My sister played with me, so it was a lot of fun,” she said. Because Stanley moved from Stafford to Partlow, VA, she spent this past summer un-packing and also preparing

for the birth of her baby, Chris-topher, who was born on August 8th, 2019. Mr. Wendell Sims, a retired geom-etry teacher,

is filling in for Stanley while she is on maternity leave. One fun fact about Stanley is that she grew up with many pets including birds, cats, rab-bits, and dogs. At one point she had around 20 animals in her backyard. “It was just a lot of fun to just have to go outside and play with whatever,” said Stanley. Several times a year, Stanley’s sister's cat would

have kittens and her dog would have puppies. ]“At any given time we would have either p u p p i e s r u n n i n g a r o u n d or kittens r u n n i n g a r o u n d . ”

This school year, Stanley’s students can expect not only a lot of hard work, but fun and unique ways to learn the mate-rial. “I like to do games to help them review, so they’re not just sitting there just doing book work and note taking,” said

This is not Stanley’s first year teaching math. She spent a few years teaching in North Caro-lina and previously taught in Prince William County. Stan-ley has taught a variety of dif-ferent maths including geom-etry, algebra I, algebra II, lower level, upper levels, statistics, pre calc, and AFDA (Algebra, Functions, and Data Analysis). “I’ve taught a little bit of every-

thing,” she said. Stanley chose to teach math because it was her favorite sub-ject and one that she enjoyed and was good at. “It was like a puzzle,” stated

Stanley. Not everyone has the same feeling about math as Stanley does, and that is also partly why she chose to teach it. “A lot of students don’t like it [math], so I was hoping to reach some of those students who are borderline, or don’t like math to see if I could kinda turn them a bit,” said Stanley. Stanley is most excited about learning the area in and around Spotsylvania and more about Chancellor itself. Although this isn’t her first time teach-ing geometry, she believes it is going to be a good change being at a new school. Stan-

By Hannah ClovenFeatures Editor

Stanley. Stanley also uses inter-active notebooks in her class-room where students get to fill in the blanks. “It is a different way for students to take notes, so it’s not just pencil paper like college.” Interactive note-books also keep the students more organized because ev-erything is one place for them. The students are able to use the notebooks for the activities they do around the room. When Stan-ley was a senior in college, she thought about teaching in other countries. Germany in par-ticular was of interest to her. She planned on teaching on a military base because she would be able to teach in English and still be able to travel and see more of the country. But when she met her husband, her dream changed. She moved to Virgin-ia, where her husband is from. Now she has a family and is teaching what she loves: math. “I know several teachers who have done it [taught abroad] and they really like it, but it’s a lot easier to do that when you’re single and not tied down. Hav-ing a family and all that, it’s a little harder to do,” said Stanley.

“At any given time we would have ei-ther puppies run-

ning around or kittens running

around.”

“I ended up switching [majors] because I ended up liking math quite a bit, and I’ve been in the class-

room on and off since I was younger because my mom is an elementary

school teacher,”

Stanley is new to Chancellor and teaches Geometry.Photo by Hannah Cloven

“It was just a lot of fun to just have to go outside and play with

whatever,”

THE ANGLE ON STANLEY

September 20195

NEWSHOPE IN DARKNESS

Imagine darkness. Not like night, but a tangible, smoky, choking darkness. It slithers into your mouth while you sleep, while you dream, and nestles somewhere in your lung, or your pancreas, or your brain. The darkness uses its c l a w- l i ke t e n d r i l s to spread through your body, pulsat-ing and growing larger, never satisfied with its control over you. Then, the darkness wraps around your body like a boa constrictor, pulling itself tight-er and tighter until you can no longer breathe. Mine, the dark-ness whispers as you writhe in pain. Mine, the darkness whis-

pers as you lose your hair, lose your sight, lose feeling. Mine, the darkness whispers as your face slackens, eyes unseeing. This darkness is cancer. Cancer, in its many forms, is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. According to the World Health Organiza-tion, about 9.6 million people

worldwide died of

cancer in 2018. This disease affects everyone in some way, and connects us in a terrible web of loss. Chances are you know at least one person who has had cancer at some point in their lives. They could be a survivor, currently fighting, or may have even lost their battle. Cancer is a tough ad-versary, but there is so much

we can do to help those fight-ing and researching for a cure. Relay for Life is an annual walk-a-thon event that raises funds to support the Ameri-can Cancer Society. According to the American Cancer Soci-ety, this event was founded in May 1985 in the United States when colorectal surgeon Dr. Gordy Klatt, in an effort to raise money for his cancer charity, walked around a track in Tacoma, Washington for a straight twenty-four hours. He ended up raising $27,000, and since then, Relay has be-come the biggest cancer fund-raiser in the world, observed and celebrated in twenty dif-ferent countries by around four million people annually. Spotsylvania County has an annual Relay for Life event at Massaponax High School. This year, Relay will be on Saturday, April 25, 2020 from 10 AM to 10 PM. Our school’s Relay team, Team Charger, is in need of more support from the school community. As a co-founder of the team, I and Team Leader Mrs. Karish plan on creating several fundraisers through-

out the year to raise money. We would love your help in making our team the best it can be. If you are unable to donate mon-ey, we would ask that you please consider donating your time by coming to this event and help-ing to create a world with more years of love and celebration. If you are interested in be-ing a part of Team Charger, or if you have a story you would like to share, you can contact me at cjhadden-08@spot-sylvania.k12.va.us or talk to Mrs. Karish in Room B206. The slogan for Relay for Life is, “Celebrate. Remember. Fight back.” We, as humans, have lived in the shadow of cancer for centuries, and have spent far too long being crushed by its palpable darkness. Howev-er, this is an era of change and hope. Our generation is the one that will make a difference, and I implore you to help us be the generation to end cancer. We are warriors and survivors, and when we are united in hope, cancer won’t stand a chance.

By Cara HaddenStaff Reporter

This year we have had many new teachers joining our great Chancellor High School staff. One of these new teach-ers is Mrs. Elizabeth Turner. Turner teaches 9th and 11th grade English, and in her free time you can find her spend-ing time playing baseball with her husband and son, or watching Wizard Of Oz. Turner was inspired by some of her former astonishing teachers, and when it came time to pick a career she said, “Teaching was just the obvi-ous choice for me.” She grew up in Henrico County where she started her teaching ca-reer at Deep Run High School, Godwin High School, and Moody Middle School where she taught 10 years total; 8 years as a high school Eng-lish teacher and two years as the Middle school librarian.

QUIRKY NEW TEACHER

Turner plans on sharing her love of literature with her stu-dents and stated,“If in the pro-cess, I help them find an appre-

ciation for what they read and write, then I’ll count that as a double win!” She also finds an importance in having a posi-tive attitude and shows that in her quirky/fun personality. Chancellor is leading its way to having a great school year, and with Turner and her positivity impacting her students, there is no way we won't succeed.

,“If in the process, I help them find

an appreciation for what they read and

write, then I’ll count that as a double

win!”

By Brianna ButcherFeatures Editor

NEW BIOLOGY TEACHER

Mr. John Kobuchi is Chancel-lor HIgh School’s new Biology teacher. He has been teaching for two years. Last year he was Caroline High School’s Human Anatomy and Ecology teacher. Kobuchi studied at the Univer-sity of Mary Washington, earn-ing an undergraduate degree inBiology and a graduate in sec-ondary education. A fun fact about Kobuchi is that he can wiggle his ears! When asked how he feels about Chancel-

By Stephanie MartinezStaff Reporter

lor High he replied, “I love the science team here, and the stu-dents are so much fun. I also haven’t gotten lost up the stairs since the first day of school.” Kobuchi wants his students to leave the classroom and ask questions about the world around them. Kobuchi states, “Biology is a great way for stu-dents to become hooked on science with topics such as ge-netics, ecology, and anatomy.”

This darkness is cancer.

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NEWSBy Faith RemickLayout Editor

CONWAY LOVES A NEW ADVENTURE

Photo by Jessica Wells

“I am confident that I can learn anything,” states Instructional Coordinator Dr. Brenda Con-way, a new addition to Chan-cellor High School. Many people don't know what an Instructional Coordi-nator (IC) is and most students don't know what this position means either. Conway, Chan-cellor’s new IC who organizes and oversees instructional programming and state test-ing for her building. Conway

“I’m looking forward to work-ing with students to help them toward their gradua-tion goals,” explains Special Education teacher Donald Joy, when asked what he is look-ing forward to this school year. Joy returned to Chancellor this year. He grew up in New York, Arizona, and Indiana. He has since lived in Fredericks-burg for the past 15 years. He left Chancellor six years ago af-ter being a football, basketball, and track coach for eight years. Aside from just coaching, Joy mentions he worked in differ-ent parts of the building during those 8 years. Now Joy is return-ing to Chancellor as a special

replaced Louise Bianchini who retired last year. Conway has been in educa-tion for 24 years. She worked as a middle school science and math teacher for 12 years and an Instructional Technology Science teacher for another 12 years in the elementary, mid-dle and high schools. Previ-ous to those assignments, she worked a few years for NASA as an outreach educator and teaches online. This education enthusiast wanted to come to Chancellor because she saw the

caring culture here and wanted to be a part of it. As well as being an educator and IC, Conway’s free time ac-tivities tend to involve water. She has a small sailboat and likes to sail on freshwater lakes such as in Cranes Creek, VA. A knee injury took Conway out of triathlons, but she is currently working up endurance and speed to enter her first Aqua-bike race! Be grateful if you happen to get a chance to meet Conway’s friendly face. “I can’t say that I

always wanted to be an instruc-tional coordinator,” states Con-way; however, the students at Chancellor High School will be happy you did.

JOY RETURNS TO CHANCELLORBy Cara Seely Op-Ed Editor

education resource teacher af-ter working at a middle school. Joy acquired a business de-

gree from the University of Mary Washington (UMW). Through the Old Dominion University (ODU) he changed his career path to Special Edu-cation. His teaching career started just four years ago. When asked why he chose to start teaching, Joy states, “I like being in the schools coach-ing, so it just tied in for me to

start working in the schools. Plus, I get summers off!” Joy returned to Chancellor this year because he made many personal connections with the athletes in previous years. Although teaching Special Education is new to Joy, he has his schedule full teaching six resource classes for stu-dents who have accommoda-tions. According to him, the biggest challenge with teach-ing these classes is the num-ber of students he can have in each class. Helping each kid individually can become a lot more difficult when class num-bers are large. The resource classes that Joy teaches are currently focusing on organi-zational skills, job-readiness

skills, and college preparation. “Right now I’m coaching football, so that pretty much consumes all of my time,” Joy explains about what activi-ties he’s currently involved in. “We will see what happens after that.” Other than teach-ing and coaching, Joy empha-sizes that he loves to spend time with his two children. When asked how he feels about the upcoming school year, Joy says, “I’m looking forward to it! It’s a big change because I just came from working at a middle school the past couple of years.” See Joy in action in room B102!

“Right now I’m coaching football,

so that pretty much consumes all of my

time,”

IS CAVA WORTH THE WAIT?By Haily Patten Staff Reporter

Dr. Brenda Conway is Chancellor’s new Instructional

Coordinator.

Fredericksburg has recently added a new restaurant to our town. The restaurant is med-deteranean style called Cava. At Cava you go through a line, and you get a choice between a bowl or a mini pita with soup. You Are served by very friendlyworkers, similar to the way chipotle serves their food. You choose your rice, meat, veg-gies, and sauces. At this par-

ticular establishment they have two floors. They have a very modern and clean interior at their restaurant. Finding park-ing is a little bit difficult, as they’re almost always packed, and there isn’t much park-ing at the actual restaurant. Several different groups of people including myself had

to park at the movie theater beside it. Of course with them being packed, you will probably have to wait in line for alittle bit

to get your food, and good-luck finding seats. At the end of the day, their food isvery delicous, and worth the little wait and walk. You should

At the end of the day, their food is

very delicous, and worth the little wait

and walk.

check it out at 3205 PlankRd, Fredericksburg, VA · (540) 298-6347.

Picture of the CAVA buildingPhoto captured by Natalie Arnold

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NEWSNEW CLASSES, NEW OPPORTUNITIES

By Hannah ClovenFeatures Editor

“When you get the kids that want you to come to their weddings, or meet their kids when they have kids, or are sending emails or phone calls when life is hard or life is good, that is what changes your life more than anything else...when you see that influence you have on a young person, that makes it worth it,” said Rebecca Waurio, Teachers for Tomorrow and French teacher at Chancellor High School. The 2019-2020 school year has been one that has come with several changes, but some of the most signifi-cant changes have been to the cours-es being offered at Chancellor. One of these changes includes changing the ti-tle of Advanced courses to Hon-ors courses. This was done to be more like the sur-rounding school divisions that have Honors courses. Courses like Ad-vanced English 9 have been changed to Honors English 9. Essentially the curriculum is unchanged. Some classes have been dropped this school year as well. The once required class, Earth Science, has been re-moved and replaced with Environmental Science. *Need to find out reason* Not only have classes been removed this school year, but several have been added as well. American Sign Language has returned, but has been brought back as an online course only. The second part of Cyber Security has been added and is being taught by

Ms. Foster. A pilot course has been launched in the Theatre Arts Department that Mr. Ar-mentrout is teaching *Find out name*. The vet program has a new course at the Career and Tech Center (CTC). A Cyber Se-curity course will eventually be run at CTC. “For things like our Cyber Security Course, the in-tent is to do a I and II and then transition over to the Career and Tech Center for that,” said Margaret Morganti, head of the counseling department at Chancellor High School. In the family and Consumer Sciences Department, Intro to Hospi-tality and Tourism has been

added and is being t a u g h t by Ms. F i o r i l l o . “Our school di-vision de-termined that hos-p i t a l i t y and tour-ism is a g r o w i n g c a r e e r field in our area,” said M a g g i e Morganti,

head of counseling. “Obviously we’re Fredericksburg, so they brought that course into our school division with intent to help students learn about the career field just in case they were interested and to kin-da spark an interest because it is a growing career field.” Another major change this year is that the class Teachers for Tomorrow (TOT) is being offered at Chancellor and is being taught by Rebecca Wau-rio, French teacher at Chancel-lor. TOT is a program that is run from South Carolina. It is a course offered for students

who want to pursue teaching, and gives them a head start by allowing them to earn col-lege credit. By the end of the course, stu-dents will have gone through 40 hours in a field place-ment. During this time, they meet with their mentor teacher at an elemen-tary, middle, or high school level to work with that teacher. They will teach a few of the lessons as well as participated in nor-mal classroom activities. This course is offered at all Spotsylvania County’s public high schools, but is only being taught at Chancellor. Students from the five high schools, Courtland, Massaponax, Spot-sylvania, Riverbend, and Chan-cellor, meet on A days dur-ing A1 and A2 for this class. A bus transports the students to Chancellor. This year, 17 stu-dents are enrolled in the course, most of them are seniors, but there are a few juniors as well. This was not only a big change for Chancellor, but for Wau-rio as well. For the last 13 years Waurio has taught French at Chancellor, so the change from teaching only French to both French and now Teachers for Tomorrow is a major one. Wau-rio first heard about the posi-tion in April through emails and posters the district had posted. Waurio has an inter-est in curriculum and instruc-tion and has a Master’s degree in administration. At first, she didn’t put too much thought into the idea of applying to the position because she enjoys teaching French, but then she kept seeing information about the position that would pop up at random places. “I finally

thought it out a bit and talked to Ms. Bass-Fortune [Principal at Chancellor] and she encour-aged me to go ahead and ap-

ply, so I did.” The reason-ing behind the decision goes even deeper than that. “Being able to mo-tivate high schoolers to start a career

in education has so far been really rewarding and some-thing that kind of enticed me,” stated Waurio. “There’s just a certain energy that comes with students that want to be teachers and at this point in my career it reinvigorated how I was feeling about edu-

cation; so, I think that was part of it, and knowing that I have the sort of background and knowledge they [the stu-dents] would benefit from.” Waurio did not have a lot of time to prepare for the transi-tion. Everything happened from last April to now, giving Waurio roughly four months to prepare. Waurio did not get the curriculum of the class un-til the first week in August due to a state rule that required her to be state trained before she could teach the mate-rial. “There wasn’t a whole lot of time to think about it

“I love the furniture. I miss my windows, but it’s been nice to be in a different setting and I like having an office. It makes me feel fancy,”

Obviously we’re Fred-ericksburg, so they brought that course into our school divi-sion with intent to help students learn

about the career field just in case they were

interested and to kinda spark an interest be-cause it is a growing

career field.”

“There’s just a cer-tain energy that

comes with students that want to be

teachers and at this point in my career

it reinvigorated how I was feeling about

education”

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NEWSNEW CLASSES FOR CHANCELLOR

for me. It gives me an oppor-tunity to try something new and take some risks and that

is always good for growth.” The two words Waurio uses to describe the change are “inspir-ing” and “challenging”. “It [the change] has really given me a new sense of energy surround-

ing daily school stuff. For the first time in probably years, I’m excited to come to school,” said Waurio. “With any career you get to a point where you’re just going through the motions. This gives me an opportunity to have something that sparks more energy and sparks more fun, and I appreciate that.” Waurio is most looking forward to getting to know and work with her new stu-dents this year. “They’re the most amazing group of kids. They’re so positive and so friendly and just willing to learn, and excited and cre-ative and for me that is incred-ibly rewarding,” stated Waurio “They’re an incredible group.” There is a Teachers for To-morrow II class for stu-dents who have gone through the first course.

[the transition],” stated Wau-rio. “You just jump in and do it. Figure it out as you go.” In addition to teaching a new class, Waurio moved to a new classroom filled the new fur-niture from Courtland High School complete with almost all office chairs on wheels. She also has a new office at-tached to her room as well. “I love the furniture. I miss my windows, but it’s been nice to be in a different setting and I like having an office. It makes me feel fancy,” said Waurio. Waurio’s new room is B121. For Waurio, teaching has been something that has changed her life. “Teaching has been one of those things that even though you don’t see a reward very quickly with teaching, the long term rewards have been the things that have changed my life,” said Waurio. “When

you get the kids that want you to come to their weddings or meet their kids when they have kids, or are sending emails or phone calls when life is hard or life is good, that is what chang-es your life more than anything else...when you see that influ-ence you have on a young per-son, that makes it worth it.” Waurio loves the change and feels like it is beneficial. Even though it is a challenge, it is something that she feels could help her grow. “I think that it brings more creativity than I’ve had to use in the last few years. You know, when you teach something for 16 years you get used to a pattern and a basic curriculum. French changes year to year, but not drastically,” stated Waurio. “This is completely different, so I think I am mentally chal-lenged and that’s a good thing

MEADOW PAINTS PICTURE OF PEACEFUL LIVING

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“My new book, The Meadow, is a work of fiction is a family-friendly themed book with an adventurous story,” states Charles H. Rudolph, history teacher at Chancellor High School. Not only does Rudolph teach the history of the Unit-ed States, but is also a prolific author with many successes already, including titles such as Days of Petersburg, Days of Devo, and Run of the Big Reds. Writing is a great passion of his. While The Meadow is a fic-tional story, it is loosely based on people that he knew and grew up with. “That book is actually more fiction than any of my other books I’ve written. I will say though that the two

dogs in the story were based on dogs I used to have,” he states. Just as creative as the story, the cover of the book is a beauti-ful, artistic, wintry painting, which was actually done by his mother. “It hangs proudly in my house above my laptop where I write my stories,” states Rudolph. “I got to looking at it, and it inspired me to write a country-themed, farm setting.” “My books are all whole-some, family-themed, and filled with love,” he explains. “My books have no profanity and no violence. They are truly traditionally themed books.” If you would like to enjoy a good read, check out The Meadow and a few of Ru-dolph's other books, they are available on Amazon.com.

By Emma Purcell Op-Ed Editor

“With any career you get to a point where you’re just

going through the motions. This gives me an opportunity to have something that sparks more

energy and sparks more fun, and I ap-

preciate that.”

Mr. Rudolph just released his latest book, The Meadow.

September 20199

BATTLEFIELD: CAVA Thumbs down! Cara’s POV: As Emma and I approached the door, an employee barged in front of me and threw open the door violently. It reminded me of a city version of Chipotle; dark, cold, and indistinguish-able from other restaurants. We got in line and the menus were hanging up on the ceiling so high, I had to strain my neck to read them. The options were overwhelming and confus-ing; a more simplistic design would have been appreciated. I ordered a “Greens and Grain” bowl for my base, which had some saffron seasoned basmati rice and romaine lettuce, with a side of a pita. I then asked for some red pepper hum-mus, regular hummus, falafel, feta, and a lemon herb tahini. I also ordered a drink and was overwhelmed by options once again. I tried the strawberry citrus drink, which sadly tast-

ed more like raspberry than strawberry, with CAVA’s flimsy paper straws. After just a few minutes of using the straw, it had completely fallen apart in the drink. I had to throw away the rest of my drink because without a straw, there was no other way to drink my bever-age. The “Greens and Grain” bowl was too eclectic for my taste and the flavors didn’t go together at all. The serving size was way too large to fin-ish in one sitting, so I was left with the burden of bringing home the leftovers. It was a jaw-dropping two dollars more than my normal Chipotle or-der. The “mediterranean” style just doesn’t seem to fit with the vibe of Fredericksburg. I would consider going again if the op-tions were simplified greatly, the paper straws weren’t so difficult to use, and if it was no longer “mediterranean”.

By Cara Seely and Emma PurcellOp-Ed Editors

OP-ED

ONLY YOUBy: Natalie Arnold Staff Reporterno one knows youbetter than youyou’ve been through your en-tire lifethrough the ups and downsthe crying fitsthe breakdownsthe butterfliesthe take downsat the end of the daywho are you left with?you.your mind.your heart.your soul.your body.you’re the one who decides how you want to see yourself.you need to be the one who cares if you get a D on the final.you need to be the one who determines whether going out with the guy who hit on you is a goodidea.

you need to be the one who fig-ures out what people you want to keep in your life.your perception of yourself is the only one that matters.other people’s perception of you only matters if you let it matter.if someone doesn’t like you and they want to leave,then you need to let them leave.you need to cry about it? cry!you need to scream about it? scream!you need to vent about it? vent!do whatever you need to do to feel better about weeding out those toxic people in your life.at the end of the day, you need to be happy and content with

I first tried the strawberry cit-rus beverage which was super good, then their blueberry soda, which was out of this world! Best of all, CAVA only has paper straws, which offers a great environmentally-friendly alternative to plastic straws. The food was great as well, es-pecially the falafel, roasted red pepper hummus, and the pita.

Thumbs Up! Emma’s POV: As Cara and I approached the door, a super nice employee greeted us outside and held the door open for us. The in-side reminded me of a Chipo-tle; a little dark with modern decor, but also with a comfort-able feel. We got in line, and the menus were hanging from the ceiling, consisting of what felt like hundreds of options! I ordered a “Greens and Grain” bowl for my base, which had some saffron seasoned basmati rice and romaine lettuce, with a side of a pita. I then asked for some red pepper hummus, regular hummus, falafel, feta, and a lemon herb tahini to top it all off. I ordered a drink, and they had many options I’ve never seen at a restaurant be-fore, like blueberry soda and a bunch of lemonades and teas.

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DEEP THOUGHTS

It tasted so fresh and healthy, and I trusted that It was made with only the cleanest in-

gredients. While it wasn’t any cheaper than Chipotle, in fact a couple dollars more, I would one hun-dred percent go back to en-joy it again! It really satisfied my “mediterranean” craving and was absolutely delicious.

who you have,what you have,

and who you are.

By: Natalie Arnold Staff Reporter

Abby Cook: “Most afraid of? Not doing well after high school, like with college and jobs after college.That’s the biggest fear factor right now.

“What are you most afraid of right

now?”

HUMANS OF CHANCELLOR

Senior Abby Cook shares her thoughts.

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MEET THE LIGHTNING BOLT STAFFOP-ED

Hello! My name is Hannah Cloven, and I am currently a senior here at Chancellor. This is my second year on TLB staff, so I am ready for another amazing year. I took journal-ism because it is a great way to connect with people. My favorite part about journalism is meeting new people, hear-ing their story, and then being able to share it with others. My hobbies include swimming, creating artwork, and volun-teering. A fun fact about me is that my favorite food is tacos.

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My name is Brianna Butcher, and I am the Features Co-Editor for the Chancellor High School newspaper The Lightning Bolt. This in my last year at Chancel-lor, because I happily will be graduating in the class of 2020.In my spare time I’m work-ing, making different arts and crafts, or making and eating different food reci-pes. In the spring, I partici-pate in the Chancellor soft-ball team, which I have been a part of since freshman year.This is my second year being a writer of The Lighting Bolt, and I'm happy to be apart of it

BriannaButcher

Hi everyone! I’m Faith Remick, Layout Editor for The Light-ning Bolt, and previous Op-Ed Editor last year. I am a junior, and I’ve been writing for the newspaper for three years. I am a two year varsity softball starter, and hopefully will be three years this season. My fa-vorite subject is English, and I enjoy reading and writing in my free time. I have one dog named Ginger; she is my baby. I’m super excited to put out ar-ticles and help the layout this year. I hope you stay tuned, and enjoy the paper this year!

FaithRemick

Hi! My name is Savannah Aversa, and I am the Editor-in-chief for the newspaper. For the past three years I have been a part of the newspaper staff as an editor: Sports editor, layout editor and now Editor-in-chief. I am also part of the track team doing shot put and discus. In addition, I take three AP classes and a dual enroll-ment course. I’m really excited for my senior year and hope to make so many memories!

Savannah Aversa

The Lightning Bolt staff consists of 10, 11, and 12th grade students in Journalism II, III, and IV. These students put our a monthly publication, and are also responsible for the Lightning Fast Broadcast.

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What’s up, folks! My name is Jessi, I am a senior, I’m 16 years old, and this is my first and last year on The Lightning Bolt staff. My hobbies include photography and drumming; I play bass drum in this school’s Lightning Regiment Marching Band. I giggle at everything for 30 minutes longer than neces-sary, and I make people giggle too, I think. I’ve created a lot of the Photoshopped art you see in the halls such as English Department photos, portraits of all of the departments, and a few Freaky Friday posters! This year you should expect to see my Humans of Chancel-lor Section and other little fun projects I hope to impress you all with. Love you guys. See you around!

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Hey! My name is Emma Purcell, and I’m a junior this school year. This is my sec-ond year working for The Lightning Bolt, and I’m super enthusiastic to bring more ideas to the paper and also contribute to previous ones. Last year I was a staff reporter, and this school year I’m working as an Op-Ed Editor! While I’m not at school, I work at my job, play tennis on our varsity team, and hang out my with friends! I cannot wait to begin writing again as it allows me to be cre-ative, but also enhance my ed-iting skills in one of my favor-ite sections in the newspaper.

Hey! My name is Cara Seely. This is my second year work-ing on The Lightning Bolt. My first year writing for the school newspaper I was a staff report-er. This year I’m going to be working as an Op-Ed Editor. Outside of school, I enjoy play-ing tennis for the girl’s varsity tennis team, playing music, and spending time with my friends and family. Journalism has helped me express my cre-ativity, expand my passion for writing, and learn more about the behind the scenes of Chan-cellor High School. I’m looking forward to continuing my work for The Lightning Bolt and ex-panding my involvement in my favorite section of Op-Ed!

My name is Katie Stafford. I’m a junior, and I’ve been working for the school news-paper The Lightning Bolt, for the past three years. I’m a writer to the unpublished book called Hostile Prey. I have four ferrets: Tigerheart (a black sable), Lionfrost (an al-bino), Phoenix (a cinnamon), and Murr (a bulldog ferret).

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ChristelleTemple

Hey, I’m Christelle Temple a senior at Chancellor High School and a staff reporter for The Lightning Bolt Newspa-per. I’m more than excited to graduate this year, and hope-fully this time next year I will be attending my dream school West Virginia Univer-sity, GO MOUNTAINEERS! I’m all about meeting new people and learning about any and everything; so, if you see me in the hallways this year, don’t be afraid to say hi, or stop and chat! I’d love to get the chance and get to know everyone at Chancellor High School before my final good-bye. I hope everyone has a great school year. I am send-ing positive vibes your way!

Hey! My name is Natalie Ar-nold! I am in 12th grade, and this is my second year on thenewspaper staff. I love writing creatively, singing, and hang-ing out with my friends. I have a little Boston Terrier doggie named Sadie. I play softball for the school, and I have been playing for about seven years, but not competitively, just for fun. For The Lightning Bolt, I am a staff reporter. Since this is my last year here at Chancel-lor High School, I am very ner-vous about how I have to plan where I am going to college, but overall I am excited to step into a new chapter in my life.

My name is Cara Hadden, and I’m in 11th grade. This is my first year in Journalism, and I am so thrilled to be part of The Lightning Bolt. As for hobbies, I love to read and write, and aspire to one day become an editor at a publish-ing house. I’m the secretary of the Riverside Young Writ-ers, a local teen writing group sponsored by published adult authors. At Chancellor, I am involved with CHHS Chorus, CHHS Theatre, SCA, and Po-etry Club, so I’m always active. In addition, I’m the co-founder of the Chancellor Relay for Life team. Relay for Life is a charity walkathon to support the American Cancer Society, and I hope to release more articles about Relay, in-cluding personal testimonials, in the future. If you are inter-ested in being involved with this event, you can contact me at cjhadden-08@spotsylvania.k12.va.us or talk to Team Cap-tain Mrs. Karish in Room B206. My goal this year is to tell your stories, and I know greatness awaits us in the 2019-2020 school year.

Hello. My name is Stephanie Martinez ( Sophomore) and I’m a reporter for The Lighting BoltNewspaper. I go around interviewing people for news coverage or upcom-ing events. My dream isto become a writer for a maga-zine company or a psychologist. This will be my first year on thenewspaper and I hope you will enjoy the paper.

Natalie Arnold

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By Katie StaffordStaff Reporter A boy horribly bul-lies a deaf girl in sixth grade; then, five years later,he starts wanting to be her friend, in an attempt to redeem treating her so terribly. This is the plot of the movie “A Silent Voice.” Before going into spoiler territory, it should be noted that, once seeing Shoya Ishida (voiced by Robbie Daymond in the English dub) treat Sho-ko Nishimiya (voiced by Lexi Marman in the English dub) the viewer will likely see this as an unforgivable sin. How-ever, by the end of the movie, which will be reviewed in English not in Japanese, the viewer will most likely direct-ed the flame of hatred to an-other character. It should be noted that this article would be divided into three parts. (Spoiler Warning: This will reveal the drama, romance, and tragedy that is “A Silent Voice.”) “A Silent Voice” starts by showing the production name - KyotoAnimation - then gives these fragments of text: “a point . . . of the light . . .” - then shows ripples before showing fish in a shallow pool of water with a rocky bed - “the shape of voice.” Then, slowly walking, is shoya, presumably a junior in high school, who strolls through lush grass with cloud filled blue skies overhead. The text (“the shape of voice”) vanishes by the next scene. The next scene shows him rip-ping part of a calendar during the month of April, with April first to the eighth crossed out with X’s. April 9th to the 15th isn’t, while the 16th and every day since that date is ripped off. He then crosses off the 9th with “Quit Part-time Job” written. After quitting, on the 11th, he gets his “Collection by Vendor”; swiftly putting the 30,000 yen on his sleeping

SPOILER WARNING!A SILENT VOICE MOVIE REVIEW

OP-EDmother’s bed with “Here’s the money I owe you” beside her after he goes on to the bank on the 14th to close his account. He walks on a bridge at the crack of dawn, with two cars roaring past in differ-ent directions. As two more cars pass, Shoya’s feet halt. The viewer sees the light refracting against the seem-ingly bottomless water. Shoya is shown, arms stretched out, leaning towards the water. A firework cracks, and Shoya snaps out of his attempting drowning, and glances at the three boys in a clearing setting them off, two holding sparklers emitting green and red sparks. Shoya crosses off “Fi-nal Day” on April 15th, and he is seen walking across a wooden bridge with white-leaved trees near the top, and pink-leaved trees below. A song called “My Gen-eration” by The Who from the album My Generation released in 1965 plays. As it plays, it prepares the viewer for a sixth-grade Shoya. By the end of the song, it also pre-pares Shoko for her new class, and five months of bullying. A pre teen Shoya (now voiced by Ryan Shanaham) is absent-mindedly playing with his me-chanical pencil. His teacher, Takeuchi (voiced by Marc Di-raison), announces a new stu-dent will be coming. Naoka Ueno (voiced by Kira Beck-land) nudges Shoya telling him the new student will be a girl. He replies by saying he doesn’t care as Shoko walks to the front of the class. The deaf girl stands and stares at the class, not hear-ing the teacher telling the class that the girl is Shoko, and asking her if she would like to introduce herself. After an awkward silence with a classroom of elemen-tary schoolers (Japan’s school

system has sixth-grade the final year for elementary school), the teacher taps her shoulder to make her aware. Shoko takes out a Note-book labeled “Notebook for Conversations Shoko Nishi-miya” out her backpack. She then flips through four pages. The first page introduces her; the second tells her class-mates she’s glad she’s meet-ing them; the next page tells them to use the notebook to speak to her; and the final page finishes with “I can’t hear.” The class murmurs with shock at that piece of information. Shoya, who had his lead pen-cil’s graphite snap and break, exclaims, “Holy crap!” after a video game warns the player of the final boss approaching. Some of the girls - includ-ing Noaka Ueno and Miki Kawai (voiced by Annabelle Corigliano) - surround Shoko. Naoka asks her if she can speak Japanese, which borders be-tween teasingly playful and cruel. Miki writes if she has a nickname; Shoko’s nickname is Sho, like Shoya’s nickname. After hearing this, Kazuki Shimada (voiced by Sachiko Kojima) says that’s cool, which Shoya says it isn’t. He then plays to roughly with Keisuke Hirose (voiced by Takuya Masumo-to), making the boy cry out. As Takeuchi explains the class assignment, Naoka asks Shoko for her notebook, to write the instructions. Shoya glances from Naoka, franti-cally writing, to Shoko, smil-ing at the black-haired girl. In a chorus class, a deaf Shoko sees Miki taking a breath to begin singing, and starts singing incoherently. Shocked, the class gaps and stares. The conductor waves the baton as the piano mu-sic for the bullying montage plays.Miki taps Shoko, explains she’s too early, and tells Shoko

to watch her before singing. Naoka says how they weren’t going to win the choir contest. Later, Shoya is playing around with his friends when they overhear Naoko complain-ing about Takeuchi talking too fast for her to copy down notes. Miki reassures her by saying she can give Naoka her notes. Naoka says she’s a life saver. The class is reading a pas-sage from a book. Naoka, standing up, reads from a pas-sage. Takeuchi asks her why she’s reading so slowly, add-ing she sounds like she’s five. As Naoka sits down, she mut-ters calling him a four-eyes. Shoko, who raises when tapped by Naoko, and told where to read by her, reads slightly coherently. A few sen-tences later, Shoko is told she did good. The girl sits down as Shoya is called to stand and read. Shoya, who starts the bullying by imitating Shoko reading, makes himself sound stupid and mentally chal-lenged. Takeuchi says, “That isn’t funny. Sit down, Shoya.” It’s late afternoon, and some of the students are cleaning the classroom. Shoko goes up to Naoka, and asks her in her notebook for her to talk with her in the notebook, Naoka re-plies with “Uh . . . no thanks.” However, Shoko follows her in this I-want-to-be-your-friend hovering way, neverthe-less. At the school playground, Naoka tells Shoko she’s leaving, a gang of four girls follow her. A pebble hits Shoko. She looks to see Shoya telling her that both her and her note-book are becoming sickening and old. Shoya, crouching, has his fingers grazing the gravel. Pointing first to herself, then to Shoya, she, signing the for word for friend, ask, “Can we be friends?” Bewil-dered and surprised, Shoya grabs a handful of gravel, tells

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her she’s a freak, and tosses it at her. Shoya leaves Shoko, her eyes instinctively closes tight-ly to prevent any blindness. One day, a woman explains she wants the class to spend three minutes pre class learning sign language. Naoka, stand-ing, says it’ll be easier to write in Shoko’s notebook. The wom-an, slightly shocked, says it’ll be easier for Shoko if everyone was to learn a little sign language. Miyoko Sahara (voiced by Catie Harvey) also stands; in-stead of agreeing with Naoka, the girl wishes to learn. Later when Shoko is teaching Mi-yoko her name in sign, Naoka half-turns, and says, “Goody two-shoes loser.” In the hall-way, Miyoko and Shoko are walking down the hall when Naoka says, “Gross. Did she get dressed in the dark?” Once Miyoko leaves the school altogether, Shoya takes it upon himself to write a mes-sage on the chalkboard, saying it’s Shoko’s fault their former classmate left. Naoka asks him if he’s going too far. Shoya re-assures her, he can go further. Kazuki tells him he can such a jerk, as Shoya leans back to bask in his masterpiece’s glory. Shoko, holding a bouquet of blue flowers, enters to see the message. Shoya pretends to be surprised at the cruel message. Telling her not to thank him, he erases the mes-sage. However, shoko writes “thank you” on the chalk-board. Shoya leaves, saying she didn’t have to thank him. Presumably a day later, Shoya makes a funnel out of a thin pa-perback book, and yells into it behind Shoko, startling her and the class. Takeuchi asks Shoya if he wanted detention. Shoya, silently laughing, says no. Miki asks Shoko if that was startling. At a time where the class is left to talk, Noaka comes

up to Shoko and sees she has on clip-on hearing aids. The black-haired girl asks Shoko if she can see the clip-on hear-ing aids. Shoko obliges. Shoya, wondering what she has, tells her to toss them over to him. She does, and Shoko nar-rowly misses snatching them out of Naoko’s hands. Hold-ing them, Shoya wonders if there was earwax on them, and throws them out the window. The bullying then continues with a little piano-played mon-tage. Shoya throws away her re-placement hearing aids in the trash can or into a pool of water. He yells at her, like like before the montage. He hits her with a broom, snatches her hear-ing aids after seeming friendly, and gets her wet with a hose by having the arched water rain endlessly down the top of her head. He finally goes too far when he snatches her hearing aids for the umpteenth time. Gasping with pain, Shoko clamps a hand against her left ear. Miki hurries over, and sees blood trickle down her arm, which forms a drop and splash-es down off her. Kazuki tells Shoya he went too far as stu-dents murmur about his attack. After Shoya goes to the fac-ulty office, Shoko finds him talking about how the princi-pal is mean. He orders her to get out of his way. As he’s pass-ing her, she thrusts her note-book, with her apology written. Disgusted with her, he says she’s not sorry, and that she’s pathetic. She grabs his hand, and, blushing slightly, Shoya tells her not to touch him. Af-ter his friends tease him for blushing at Shoko’s touch, he watches Shoko for a sign for asking his friends before toss-ing it into a green pool of water. As Shoya, Kazuki, and Keisuke are leaving, they no-tice Shoko wading in the pool, in search of her notebook. The

scene goes to Shoya’s green eyes before switching to a scene that’s similiar. However, Shoya’s eyes shifted, and his face wet with a brighter sky. Fluttering pages obscure Kazuki and Keisuki staring at Shoya, whose in the pool of water Shoko had waded in. His notebooks are float-ing around him. Kazuki coldly says, “We’ll see you around, Shoya.” He turns, and a yellow flag lashes. “Later.” An old man explains Shoko was absent to the class. The school had been given no-tice by her mother that eight of her hearing aids have been broken or missing He adds hearing aids are expensive. According to www.audicus.com, hearing aids can range between $1,500 to $3,500 pre unit, but the average price is $2,300. However, that’s only for one hearing aid. For two, the price is doubled. So, that’s about 62.45 Japanese yen for $2,300 in US currency, for just one hearing aids! For miss-ing sixteen hearing aids (she came home with eight pairs of broken or lost hearing aids), that’s 339.28 Japanese yen for $36,800 US dollars worth of replacement hearing aids! Shoko’s mother believes her daughter is being bul-lied. The man asks, “If on one comes forward. I hate to bring your parents into this.” Shoya has a vision of his mother cut-ting someone’s black hair. He doesn’t want to risk her anger searing him. He gasps, and slowly begins to raise his hand. Takeuchi calls Shoya’s name, then tells him to stand up.Takeuchi says he knows it’s him. Shoya hesitates. He re-peats his order, slamming his fist onto the chalkboard. Once Shoya does, Takeuchi asks Naoko what she saw. The girl, eyeing him, voices his crime of bullying the deaf new girl.

Shoya stares at her in hor-ror and disbelief. Pointing an accusing finger at her, he says, “What?” His panic and in-credulity grows when Kazuki adds, “Yeah, totally. I kept tell-ing him to knock it off. But, Shoya won’t listen to anyone.” At his friend’s addition, he snaps that wasn’t fair, and that Kazuki and Naoko, along with Miki, have bullied her as well. Kazuki eyes his friend, the friendship already dying be-tween them. Noako, disbeliev-ing and horrified, gazes up at him in shock. Miki says what he said wasn’t true, and that it was mean for him to accuse her of bullying. She takes off her glasses, and breaks down, say-ing she’ll never bully anyone. At the girl’s tears, the class whispers and stares at him while Shoya only stammers, “I-I -” The flashback over, a soaked Shoya, about to get out of the pool of green wa-ter, notices Shoko’s conver-sations notebook. The scene zooms outward, with Shoya, holding the pink-and-white notebook, blurs as a patch of daisies grows in clarity. Shoya, his sneakers begin the focus for a few seconds be-fore his dark backpack shares the glory for a frame, is read-ing what he wrote to Shoko: “Good luck on your own. Mo-ron,” reads one, with a crude drawing of a piece of crap at the lower far-right corner of the left-hand side of the page. As he turns a page, his moth-er, Miyako Ishida (voiced by Sara Cravens), could be heard ending a call about Shoya. A few seconds before the call ends, Shoya walks in the house and heads upstairs. Not even his mother calling him to her could end his journey to his room, nor his unhappiness. She pokes her end in the stairwell, glaring at Shoya, who has a leaf in his dark hair

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and has halted on his way up. She informs him she just got off the phone with his school. She stops her lecture to ask him why he’s wet. Shoya, giving his mother attitude, mutters angrily, “Leave me alone! I jumped in the riv-er like always!” He makes a fresh attempt at his journey. She tells him to freeze (he does, though grudgingly), and questions him if he’s been caus-ing trouble at school. He gives her the same tone of voice when telling her to leave him alone when he says “I won’t know.” Miyako asks him why his teacher called her. Fed up, he snaps, “Okay, fine. It’s true!” He turns to see his mother, tears gleaming in her eyes, shakiky say, “Get cleaned up. We’re going over to Shoko’s right now.” Shoya’s grip tight-ens on Shoko’s notebook. Shoya’s mother is in the bank while Shoya watches from the car. He seems shocked seeing the large amount of money the banker gives her. The scene goes to Shoya’s eyes watching his mother presumably take the yen.The background changes to green-leaved trees, his eyes not as wide as the last scene. His mother is bowing to Shoko’s stern-eyed and frown-ing mother, Yaeko Nishimiya (voiced by Lipica Shoh). Shoya lowers his eyes more, feel-ing guilty. Miyako motions to her son to stay while mut-edly talking with the murmur of water in the background. The women leave Shoya standing there awkwardly. Shoya’s feet can be seen descending some stairs that look like stone. The mur-muring water has grown to roar from a waterfall. The scene goes to a gloomy-faced Shoya noticing a flock of gray-feathered doves going for a tossed piece of breadcrumb.

He then notices who’s feed-ing them. He stiffens as his eyes widen as Shoko pulls off a part of the bread she’s holding. Shoya backs to the wall, and starts creeping away from her. As he continues giving her a wide berth, a water-fall could be seen in front of Shoko as he walks away. Six or seven feet, he trips, and cries out, which sends the doves scattering and flying away. As Shoko watches a horri-fied Shoya, the scene goes to the fleeing doves. Later, he’s sitting on a rock when Miyako comes up to him. The camera pans up as Shoya looks at her. His mother tells him he’s going to be nicer from now on. Shoya gazes at her with wide eyes. At school, he notices Sho-ko’s shoes from from a cub-byhole aren’t there. As Takeu-chi says, “All of these great men were going through their own struggles,” Shoya stares at him in watchful alertness, like he’s realizing something. Another bullying montage unfolds, and it’s Shoya begin bullied. He’s hit in the back of the head with a yellow-and-black volleyball; his shoes are thrown in the trash; he’s begin hit with a broom; and he ends up sprawled on the ground, notebooks and papers scat-tered and tore around him. Once having hose water rained down on him, Shoya, wet and miserable, heads to his classroom. There, he sees Shoko cleaning a desk. He then tells her not to touch his stuff, and call-ing her a freak in the process . Disgusted with her kind-ness, sweet smile, and friendly eyes gazing at him, he then shoves her into the desk, and holding her shoulder to keep her from getting away. He tells her to spit out what-ever she has to say, so can stop using the sweet, innocent fa-cade she’s been supposedly

using this whole time. Shoya demands to know if she gets mad, and for her to do some-thing. She does, and bites him, which has him crying out and releasing her. In retaliation, he pushes back to the desk. She sits on the desk, and hitting Shoya, who’s yelling at her for biting him. Gentle music plays as the two hit each other (Shoko even at-tempting to kick Shoya). This leads to Shoya slamming onto the floor. Shoko gets off the desk to continue her attack. However, as she goes down to pin Shoya, she says something that sounds like “I’m proud of you.” As he flails around to get her off him, Shoya doesn’t un-derstand Shoko conherently saying, “I’m doing the best I can.” Between the music, the tension, and Shoya not un-derstanding her, this makes Shoko’s first coherent sen-tence (and not her last coher-ent sentence) all the more meaningful and emotionally. The two wrestle for a mo-ment before Shoko slams Shoya’s head onto the floor. The fight ends with Sho-ko weakly hitting Shoya. Three scenes flash: A tree growing at the school’s play-ground, scattered with seeds as one plops down on the asphalt; ripe wheat grow-ing behind golden hills; and purple and pink wildflow-ers swaying in the breeze. Shoya’s cleaning his desk, which has messages say-ing he should go away, on his own. He says he hates Sho-ko, and that she was weird. Takeuchi informs the class Shoko transferred to another school. Shoya, playing with his mechanical pencil again, has his head down as the teacher explains whoever had the class journal didn’t turn it in. He asks for everyone to check their bookbags for it. The scene goes to yellow

daisies growing behind a green wire fence. It fades to soft rip-ples disturbing the black be-fore showing a teenage Shoya walking on the same bridge before the flashback to elemen-tary school. However, it isn’t dawn; it’s well into the morn-ing with a cloudless blue sky. Shoya walks into a build-ing. There, he heads to a class-room to learn sign language; before opening the door, he takes a deep breath. The neigh-boring door opens, and some women, whom been talk-ing, turn to a young woman leaving the open door. One woman says, “Oh look, it’s Shoko. How are you doing?” As she passes him, Shoya has a vision of her in sixth-grade. He calls her name, and gently turns her around to face him. Shoko gazes nervously at her old tormentor, whose greeting her and explaining they were in elementary school together. Shoya tells her his name. Shoko chuckles in this friend-ly way before, twice, look-ing like she’s on the verge to talk. She then runs off, leav-ing a perplexed Shoya to ask her where she’s going. Shoya chases her, and nearly passes her when Shoko crouch-es down next to the railing. When Shoya’s hand slams onto the railing two or three feet away from her, Shoko looks up to Shoya calmly stepping forward, and saying, “Hey!” Both standing, Shoya’s the one trying to think of something to say. He hands her the crumpled notebook Shoko used to com-municate to her sixth-grade classmates. He says she left the notebook behind, which has her gasping in shock. She signs while mutedly speaking. He correctly understands her question of how he learned sign language. He answers her by saying he learned from a class he’d taken. He says he wasn’t sure she would want

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to see the crumpled, pink-and-white notebook again. A few seconds pass before Shoya speaks and signs his re-quest to be friends with Shoko. Shoko, her brown gaze watching him, has the old notebook cov-ering her face expect her eyes. Shoya wheels around and slaps himself, hard. He won-ders what he said, then realizes that was what Shoko was trying to ask Shoya back in school. Finally understanding her, he turns to see tears brimming in her eyes. Confused and hor-rified, he tells her not to cry. A drop of water sends ripples across a clear pool of water with a rocky bottom and tufts of grass shooting out of the pebbles. Seeing through his eyes, Shoya asks Shoko if they want to be friends. Shoko re-plies with repeating his name with his sister’s voice. It’s re-vealed to be a dream, and he wakes up on the floor with a small blanket and no pillow. As his sister and Miyako tell him to get up for breakfast, the scene shows Miyako’s haircut business is part of the house. A sign says, “Hair Make ISHIDA.” Looking down from his at-tic bedroom, he notices his sister’s young daughter, Maria (voiced by Annabelle Deaner). He says good morning to his niece. Maria gasps, says his wake, and runs off, presum-ably to tell the others’ he’s up. Shoko passes through a blue curtain to see the ripped calendar under a portable ta-ble. He stops at the calendar. Shoya places the newly re-paired calendar on a wooden beam. The repair works seems to be a second piece of pa-per taped to what’s left of it. An egg, next to a sizzling piece of bacon, is lifted out of the pan with a spatula. Shoya’s sister (voiced by Stephanie Sheh) leaves the house. Her daughter bids her farewell. Miyako gives her son the

egg, and Shoya thanks God for the meal. Beginning to eat the egg with chopsticks, he notic-es his mother’s cheerfulness, and asks her why she’s happy. His mother raises the en-velope Shoya gave her at the start of the movie, tell-ing her son he’s been work-ing so hard at his part-time job. She adds sold his clothes, comic books, and futon. After Shoya helps Ma-ria off her chair, his moth-er nonchalantly asks, “But, tell me, Shoya, why would you want to kill yourself?” He explains he’s been go-ing through some crazy stuff lately. Shoya looks up, and leans as far back in his chair as he can. His mother stands up, leaning against the table. She knew something was going on with him. She tells him not to deny it. His room is cleaned, he cancelled his phone service, and everything after April was ripped from his calendar. And that’s not to mention he sold practically everything, except an outfit or two, and his life. And he also quit his job along with ending his bank accounts. Miyako says it’s so morbid, and then holds a lit lighter to the envelope. It’s only when she asks her son not to end his life, with the understand-ing he’ll keep the 1.7 mil-lion yen ($16,070.10 in US currency) he earned with-out it being a pile of ashes. Shoya has a vision of his smil-ing mother standing with her left ear bleeding - the scar he gave Shoko in sixth grade. This says he still bares the guilt of hurting her. He wants to atone for his sin of bullying a deaf girl. Miyako asks Shoya if he’s listening to her. He says he is, and not to do anything crazy. This has his mother point out ending his life was crazy. He walks towards her, apolo-gizing. Once begging her not to burn the money, and prom-

ising he won’t do it again, she asks him what he’ll never do again, as he phrased the prom-ise not to end his life vaguely. At this, he drops to his knees, bows, and begs, “I promise I’m not going to kill myself! I swear I won’t do it! Please believe me!” Once reassuring him she believed him, she tips the money closer to the little flame. Immediately, the en-velope catches fire. Miyako drops it onto the hot pan. Both Shoya and Miyako try to douse the flames with their hands. Shoya takes off his shirt, and beats the burning money. The scene changes to the re-paired calendar on the beam. However, the successful pro-cess of beating the flames could still be heard. Once done, Ma-ria says it’s smoky, and Shoya could be heard moaning in distress at the pile of ashes that been his hard-earned money. Later that day, Shoya is rid-ing his bike under a cloudless blue sky. He thinks the reason he went to see Shoko was to tie up any loose ends, and yes-terday he was going to end his life by jumping off a bridge. He thinks how seeing Shoko was going to be the greatest test of courage. He sees different visions: his mother holding the envelope; Miyako’s smiling face, her green eyes filled with love and happiness; Shoko, turning to face him, tears in her eyes; Shoko holding bread, even unbuttoning her sweater. It ends with Shoya dropping a piece of bread in some water. “Can we be friends?” he mutters after seeing a vision of Shoko signing for his friend-ship. He, blushing slightly, straightens up, looking like his mind is racing with doubts. “I’m the world’s biggest loser,” he says before pedaling faster. One the first day of ju-nior high, Kazuki made sure everyone knew he wasn’t just a bully, but the bullying

been bad enough for a girl to transfer to another school. Over time, he severs himself from everyone; willingly push-ing everyone away from him. This was done as punishment for bullying Shoko. This is shown through two visual cues: First, a mass of blue string un-ravels until snapping; then, a spotlight falling onto a middle school Shoya, who’s stand-ing next to a graffitied desk. The scene goes to high schoolers walking and greeting one another, but only showing his or her legs in first person point of view. Back to third person point of view, Shoya glances at the legs of the stu-dents, showing he doesn’t give anyone eye contact. The scene then shows the faces of the students; however, big blue and purple X’s are over his or her face. The X’s symbol-izing he doesn’t take notice of anyone. He then covers his ears a few seconds before a teacher starts talking to his students. The scene changes to a teacher telling his students to have something trans-lated by next class. Shoya is getting ready to leave when Miki (now voiced by Amber Lee Conners) asks him if he handed in his math notebook. He apologizes, and says he forgot. She reminds him kindly to hand it in soon. He apologizes again, and a crossed-out Miki leaves him. Shoya imagines the stu-dents talking about how he never hangs out with anyone, and even hears them call him a freak and loser. However, this is just his low self-es-teem playing tricks with him. He looks away when his doubts figuratively ask him why he bothers living. (End of Part One.)

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VIdeo games. They change the way people think about something and they bring to-gether people into huge com-munities. Playing video games has also become a career path. People who play video games for a living play a game and upload it to Youtube or they stream it so that people can watch it live. Recently, or somewhat recently, a 16 year old boy won $3 Million dollars from play-ing and winning a video game tournament. This boy won a huge amount of money which most people would work years to achieve. Some people might think that this is unfair be-cause they work hard everyday to get money and some kid plays some video games and earns more than they make in two years. Though those in the gaming community think otherwise, playing games for your career choice isn’t something that is easy. In order to actually make money on Youtube you have to have a lot of subscribers and people subscribe to you based off of your content. In other words, if people don’t like what you make, then they won’t subscribe, and you don’t make any money. This is why playing video games as a career choice is difficult.

PLAYING GAMES FOR A

LIIVINGBy Mikah NelsonStaff Reporter

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By Katie StaffordStaff Reporter The moor’s hills climbed up and down as brooks murmured near patches of yellow gorse and pink and blue heather. Between two brooks and hid-den by weathered rocks that created an island, was a large bramble bush. A lithe flame-red she-cat with black ears and a black squirrel-bushy tail crept out from the bramble’s shadows. The cat’s leaf-green eyes studied the moor before wading through the water with ease. She was followed by an am-ber-eyed tabby tom with white chest and paws. The tom’s long, fluffy tail was stormcloud-gray. She nodded to him before rac-ing through the long grass. The tom giving chase. The two cats were about a mile away when they noticed anoth-er cat. This cat was a blue-gray tomcat with a black-striped tail and emerald eyes. The tom’s pelt was stiff and spiked with dried blood, and one hind paw was at an awkward angle. Crouching low, the two crept over to the wounded Russian Persian. The cat noticed them, yowled in alarm and anger, and swiped with a foreclaw. The tabby leapt, and the wounded cat cried out, and was pinned to the ground. Then, the two toms tumbled into a valley.

Twisting and yowling, the wounded cat used his claws to batter his attacker. The she-cat scruffed her compan-ion, pulled him away, and crouched, growling warningly, between the two toms. When the fur laid flat, claws retracted, and eyes weren’t

gleaming murderously, the she-cat turned to the cat. “Are you okay?” she asked. Does having my fur stiff and reeking of blood fine to you?” the cat snarled. “No. What wounds do you have? We can cure you,” she said. “Cure? We can’t cure him! If he’s a human, then we can drink his blood!” the tom snapped. “Please, Storm, I don’t think humans can shape-shift. Any-way, you’re at the Vampire Clan Near the Brooks, or Vampire

Clan at the Moor for short.” “Fine, if he’s not a human, then he could be a full-fledged vampire. How can we trust him, Flame?” Storm growled. “We won’t know that unless he shape-shifts,” Flame whis-pered. A flash of dark blue light il-luminated the valley before a vampire faced the two bris-tling cats. The vampire had sapphire-blue eyes, blue-black hair, a lithe muscular body frame, and fangs that barely passed his upper teeth. He wore a black tunic with AW in dove-gray that was barely concealed by the two-button cape of mid-night-blue. He wore dark jeans with knee-high, hard-soled, black leather boots. He looked about sixteen. Flame stepped up to him, and sniffed him. “He’s a hybrid, Storm. His physique betrays

him without his scent. It’s half soft human, half savage and cunning vampire. We need to cure him; he’s wounded.” The half-vampire swayed. His left ankle was clearly broken, his clothes were tattered and torn where still-bleeding scars could be visible. Two flashes of blue light lasted for a heart-beat before two half-vampires helped him stay on his feet. Storm had feathery coal-black hair and stormcloud-gray eyes. He wore a plain shirt with dark jeans and leather boots. Flame, her thick ginger hair tickling the stranger’s face, eyed him with worried, leaf-green eyes. She wore what Storm wore, but with a skirt over a pair of leg-gings instead of jeans. “You know, Flame, he’s wear-ing what the Atonement War-riors wear. Come to think of it, I haven’t heard them in so long. Usually the Vampire Clan in the Pinewood tells us if they’re winning or not, but no news on them has been heard for a decade.” The stranger’s head jerked to the sky. He then screeched in terror, trying to pull away, half-sobbing, half-snarling he’ll

Dying Flame’s Shadow is a fictional story that is part of the unpublished book Hostile Prey.

The stranger’s head jerked to the sky. He

then screeched in terror, trying to pull away, half-sobbing, half-snarling he’ll

murder them if they didn’t let him go.

murder them if they didn’t let him go. They obeyed him. He stumbled, fell, and trembled, whimpering in terror. “What’s wrong?” Flame asked. “Yeah, what’s the matter? Is this how the Atonement War-riors show gratitude now? By acting like an idiot.” Storm stepped back when the strang-er hissed and tried to grab him, his teeth and fangs ready to

He’s a hybrid, Storm. His physique betrays him without

his scent. It’s half soft human, half

savage and cunning vampire. We need to cure him; he’s

wounded

clamp down. “Let’s not mention the you-know-what for a while,” Flame whispered to Storm. The stranger glared at them, his hair matted with sweat and eyes gleaming with a hint of a haunted-look by his panic at-tack. “I need your help to end humanity. Humans think hid-ing from the werewolves and vampires preying on them behind the Four Great Walls would stop their problems. “They got rid of us - the Atonement Warriors - ten

years ago. The former Captain make me the new Captain dur-ing the Battle of Lost Hope. I vowed the end of humanity for ending a regiment of warriors formerly considered the flame of protection before being viewed as the fires of hell. “After all, they tried to get rid of us, a raging inferno, through bloodshed. An Oracle told us: ‘Like water, blood will quench the raging inferno.’ That raging inferno was us, I know it was, and blood - blood from battle - ended us. Can’t you see?” “Yes, and what’s the Battle of Lost Hope?” Flame asked kindly. He glared at her look of sym-pathy. “Battle of Lost Hope, Battle of Disbandment, and the Battle at the Glass Castle are the same battle. Humanity ended the Atonement Warriors during Christmas: It started at

A flash of dark blue light illuminated the valley before a vampire faced the two bristling cats.

He stumbled, fell, and trembled,

whimpering in ter-ror.

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Continued from page 17sundown on Christmas Eve, and didn’t stop until two hours before dawn on Christmas Day. Humans need to pay for ending us. My name is Dark Ember, I vowed to end humanity, and I

will. No one will stop me!” Flame kneeled. “I under-stand. I was part of the Atone-

ment Warriors, too, Captain.” “We both were. We became hybrids a little after a man with black hair and brown eyes was named the Captain’s deputy. Was he your Captain before he named you his successor?” “Lucas? Yes, I’m glad he’s dead! An Atonement Warrior did the honorably duty of kill-ing that sinful Captain!” Dark Ember smiled. Flame swallowed when the stranger twisted smile grew.

Storm helped him to his feet. “Well, you’ll have to shape-shift back to a cat when we get to a bramble bush. Once you’re all settled and on the path of healing, we’ll tell you more about us. Okay?” “Okay.” Dark Ember and Storm left. It was then that she noticed the sheathed weapons and the quiver of arrows and bow. She could hear something inside her head. Voices, talk-ing.

THE BEAUTY OF THE IRISH ISLEBy Hailey PattenStaff Reporter

THE LUNGS OF THE PLANET ARE ON FIRE Conceptualize being in a for-est with vast green trees that seem to block out the sun because of their enormous size, the smell of wet bark, the amazing array of different creatures lurking in the trees, the sound of the rain hitting the leaves, and the smell of smoke from fires burning the trees miles away. This is the Amazon Rainforest the biggest

Rainforest on Earth, and it’s under attack with more than 73,000 man made forest fires causing deforestation. It’s hard to predict when these forest fires started, but many suggest they may have started in January. Alberto Setzer, a senior scientist at Inpe, said in an interview with CNN that he states, “99% of the fires re-sult from human actions.” The question is why are humans causing these fires? Well the

simple answer is for the cattle industry, the cattle industry in Brazil supplies 1⁄4 of all cattle in the world. The farmers who are in the cattle industries start fires to clear areas for their cat-tle to graze. The reason this is such a big issue is because the Amazon Forest accounts for 20% of all oxygen in the world, and it holds 1/10 species of ani-mals. Many people are concerned for the future of the Amazon

Rainforest including Leonardo DiCaprio who made Earth Al-liance and pledged $5 million dollars to help the stopping of Amazon Fire. If would like to help the funding t0 help the aid to the Amazon Forest Fire go to this website and read on how you can help. https://eal-liance.org/amazonforestfund/. Together we need to work to-gether and repair the Amazon Rainforest for future genera-tions.

By Brianna ButcherNews Editor

Imagine waking up, hearing the birds singing their songs right outside your window. You get up and out of bed and walk onto your balcony. You gaze out into the bright green fields, and mountains. You can see the sheep on the fields, but they are so far away they look like ants. It’s sunny out, yet not too hot. Maybe it’s even drizzling out a little bit. It’s a breathtak-ing sight to see. Where is this amazing place? It’s Ireland. The Emerald Isle, for which Ireland is commonly referred as, is such a beautiful coun-try. People tend to say that the color green, sheep, rain, lepre-chauns, four leaf clovers and shamrocks all can be a repre-

sentation of Ireland. Those people are not wrong. Ireland is so green; you can be in the air on a plane above Ireland and only see fields of green. The green is due to all the rain that falls in Ireland. But don’t worry, when it rains, usually it’s a light rain, and it only rains for a few minutes. There are a lot of sheep and cows in Ireland. The most dangerous animal in Ireland is a fox. You won’t find bears, snakes, poisonous spiders or anything like that in Ireland. There is a lot to see in Ire-land, perhaps a lot more than one would expect. Adventure-seekers can go to a variety of different castles which are as-tonishingly beautiful. Visitors can also go to Blarney Castle

and kiss the Blarney stone. Kissing the Blarney stone is said to give one good luck. Be forewarned; however, when I was there, we saw men peeing on the stones. Ireland is home to all kinds of different cliffs and lakes where people can go swimming and cliff diving. Over the sum-mer, my family from Ireland and I went to see some cliffs where underneath them was a lake. We were so high up, it was scary, but it was so much fun as well as beautiful. Ireland is so beautiful. You can go almost anywhere and take a beautiful photo everywhere you look. You can get pictures of little towns, fields or of mountains. Ireland’s is so delicious. They have normal restaurants, pubs,

chippers and then other kinds of food, like Thai and Chinese. Irish food is so underrated. Curry chips, which are deli-cious, can be purchased at a chipper. Chips are fries in Ire-land. The food is so good; you have to taste it for yourself to understand. Ireland is just one of those places that when you go once, you have to go back. And I hav-ing family there makes that pretty easy. Ireland is prob-ably one of the most beauti-ful and entertaining places in the world. And I must say it definitely has some of the best food in the world. So save up a few bucks, buy a ticket, and make your way to Ireland next summer! You will not regret it.

Twisting and yowl-ing, the wounded

cat used his claws to batter his attacker.

“Is she awake?” a female voice said. “What happens if she doesn’t wake up?” another female voice asked. The two voices sounded like teenagers of either fifteen or sixteen. An older woman’s voice shak-ily said, “I don’t know what I’ll do if my daughter doesn’t wake up. I gave this present to her, in the hope she wakes up. She loves to play video games.”

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EUROPE I had never been on a plane, let alone out of the country. The furthest I had ever trav-elled was to Massachusetts, and that was by car. But that all changed over this past sum-mer. May 27th, 2019. I woke and sat on my bed rubbing my eyes and yawning. Still half asleep, I looked over at my suitcase that I had finished packing the night before. “I can’t believe it’s finally here!” I thought to my-self. “Today I become a world traveller.” I sat thinking to myself how It seemed like forever ago when I signed up for this trip, but it had actually been a little over a year. Ms. Waurio, my French teacher, and Ms. Randall the French teacher at Chancellor Middle School, take a group of students to Europe every two years. I was unable to go on the trip to France my fresh-man year, but my parents told me I would be able to go on a trip my senior year. So, when I heard about the 11 day trip to France, Italy, Switzerland and Spain, I asked my parents if I could go, and they said yes! I spent the next year waiting and

preparing for the trip. I got my first passport. It seemed to take forever, but it finally came. Because it was Memorial Day when we left, the traffic was heavier than normal. I had to be at the Dulles Airport by 3 pm for my 6:05pm flight to Zurich, Switzerland, so I had

to leave the house by noon be-cause of traffic. When it was time to leave, my mom asked my siblings to take my suitcase to the car. My youngest brother grabbed my suitcase, my sis-ter had my carry-on, and my brother Paul picked me up and carried me to the car while my mom filmed the whole thing. I said my goodbyes to my sib-lings, and got into the car with my mom and step dad to drive to the airport. As we were pull-ing out of the driveway, my brother jokingly cheered, be-

cause I was going to be out of the house for the next 11 days. (I love you too, Paul). On the way to the airport, we stopped for lunch and ice cream. So many thoughts filled my head on the drive. “What is the plane going to be like? Will the airport be as crowded as I think? Will there be the little bags of peanuts like in the movies?” It was only a matter of hours before my questions would be answered. We arrived at the airport and parked. We got on the shuttle bus that dropped us off at the front of the airport. This was my first time at an airport, so I didn’t really know what to ex-pect. It was interesting. People rushed passed us in every di-rection, just trying to get to where they needed to be. In my mind, it looked like a bee-hive with everyone buzzing by to get to their destinations. We got a little lost at first, but when we figured out where we were going, we quickly found

my group. We were a group of 21, so it was a fairly good size. Ms. Waurio helped me print my boarding pass a