December 2020 | Opinion 5
Dear Santa
The Pow Wow staff writes a letter to Santa hoping for brighter things in 2021
Pow Wow newspaper staff Dear Santa, It has been about a year since we have spoken last, and quite a bit has happened since then. First, we want to thank you for giving us an extra week on our spring break, the outcome was not our favorite, but it was fun while it lasted. With a new advisor this year, we would like you to convince her to let us get a class pet since Mrs. Holder wouldn’t break last year. We know that it is a lot to ask for, but hopefully she will give in. If that is too much to ask for, we ask that you replace our stuffed turtle, Timothy, he went missing after school closed due to COVID-19. We know that you are “always watching”, so you know that the world shut down due to COVID-19. It granted us not only an extra week of spring break, but for us to not return to school until after Labor Day. Unfortunately, the Class of 2020 never returned to the
building after spring break, and graduation was pushed out to June and was at the Children’s Mercy Park. This year, the senior class is asking that we have graduation at the end of May like always and to be able to walk across the stage at Braves Fieldhouse. We have had a lot taken from us this year and we want that last moment with everyone to be bittersweet and finish where we all started. With COVID-19 striking just over a year ago, this year we would like a vaccine so that we can go back to our normal lives. We want to be able to go out with our friends and not have to worry about if we have a mask or not. This year, we have also had a lot of issues outside of the virus. There has been a lot of hate towards people around the world and we ask that you guide us on how to solve this issue and that we all care for each other equally.
Putting all of that aside, we want the Chiefs to bring home another Superbowl trophy so that we can get out of school for a day while celebrating the great city that we live in. We would also like to give a good luck to the Kansas City Royals and Sporting KC. We also want to welcome the Utah Royals, as they are the newest addition to our sports community in Kansas. We are so grateful that the National Women’s Soccer League is back in Kansas. Now back to our community. We haven’t been too lucky in the sports programs this winter with basketball and wrestling getting quarantined, it has put a slight hold on the start of their season. We always ask for you to give our basketball team a little help, and send them to state as you did in 2019. We also want you to send the rest of our winter sports to state and to bring
home a trophy to represent their hard work and our school. Here on the Pow Wow staff, we are really struggling this year with having a small staff and not having everyone in the classroom. We want you to help us get some great people to apply for next year so that isn’t something we have to worry about. Although this year has been hard, we hope that you get our letter since the postal service has been very busy due to the election. Santa, you are the one thing a child looks forward to every year, so please take the time to read our letter and grant all of our wishes. Thank you for everything you have done in the years past and you will hear from us again next year around this time, just with a brand new editor.
Looking Forward izabelle koenig | A&E editor I am going to be honest, I won’t miss much about high school. Of course I will miss my friends and a few of the teachers I’ve had, but I won’t miss waking up early and I definitely won’t miss presenting in front of the class. I remember sophomore year I told my uncle I wasn’t
going to homecoming. He told me I should because “these are going to be the best years of your life.” I remember feeling the same way then as I do now, if these were the best years of my life then my life is really going to suck. It’s not that high school was bad, it wasn’t, but it wasn’t amazing either. My high school experience was average, and that’s ok. I’m only 17, I don’t expect my life to be like it is in the movies. I don’t want to think that these past 4 years were the best of my life because that
would mean it’s all downhill from here. I like to think that things are still improving, that things are good now but will be even better in the future. I learned a lot here at school, not just in classes. I learned how to talk to people and be less shy. I did have some good times here that I will miss. I will miss seeing my friends every day, although thanks to COVID I already miss them. I will miss sitting in the cafeteria or library or wherever everyone met
before school and just talking. There are a lot of things I will miss but I won’t stay sad for too long. When one door closes another one opens. Even though that’s very cheesy, it’s true. I will miss my friends but I can still talk to them and I will make new ones wherever I end up this time next year. I won’t miss high school too much because I know things will be even better after I graduate. I know because I will make sure of it.
