The Time I... BY Taylor Schmitz & Anna Engels
While many students may feel like their lives have been mundane, some LHS students have experienced a surprising variety of odd encounters and have many stories to tell. From funny secrets to great accomplishments, this TTI (The Time I) Disney Channel spin-off will surely change the way you view the peers who you previously perceived as boring.
Allison Weeden, 11
“It was my freshman year and I was in the musical, The Christmas Story. Around the end of the story, the family goes to a Chinese restaurant because their neighbor’s dog destroyed their turkey. During the scene, we had a fake duck that the waiter would bring in and rip the head off and all of us would be surprised. But during the dress rehearsal, the duck was angled towards me. When the waiter pulled it off, he used more force than necessary, so the duck went straight to my face and hit the bridge of my nose. I got a bloody nose on stage, but I kept going to finish the show. I had to sing an entire song and while I was singing in my 1940s costume, I was wiping my nose as well. I initially tried to hide it by covering my face and everybody thought I was breaking character, but I wasn’t. When I took my hand off everybody just gasped because there was so much blood, and by the end [of the show] I looked like a zombie.”
“The time I finished my novel was one of the proudest moments of my life. I challenged myself to write one, which meant writing more than 50,000 words. In November there’s a challenge called National Novel writing month where you try to write a book in one month, but I didn’t have the time because of school, so I wrote it in two and finished it at the end of December. It was more of a struggle than people would believe. I wrote in my spare time and I stayed up at night to finish writing it. The book is about a girl and on her grandpa’s deathbed, he gives her a clock and it says, ‘end of the world’ in Latin at the bottom. Three years after he dies, the clock finally starts ticking and she has three days to figure out how to save the world. At the end of the year, I had written a 75,000 word novel. Seeing my dream through gave me such a sense of accomplishment that I've never felt before. I’m still in the editing process but I’m hoping to get it published in the future.”
Emma Johnson, 11
“One time I was visiting my old school with a bunch of other kids who went there also. There was construction on the road in front of the school so there were traffic cones everywhere. We decided that they took a lot of our childhood, so we were going to take a traffic cone. The school is right on 26th street so the road was always really busy too. We had to stop in the middle of the busy road, jump out and grab a huge orange traffic cone that is way heavier than you would think, and run back into the car before getting honked at. Then we dropped it off at our old principal’s house and got the heck out of there. It was so much fun and probably the most I have ever laughed in awhile.” Katie Van Zee, 10 “The first time I went to an NFL game, my stepdad and I left after school and drove from Sioux Falls all the way to Appleton, Wisconsin. [It] was Packers vs. Vikings and Mr. Daly and I had a bet that the loser had to wear the winning team’s jersey to school for the full day. After the Packers won 21-16, he had to wear my brand new Aaron Rodgers jersey that I bought in Green Bay. Not only that, but he had to wear it again after the Packers beat the Vikings in week 16.”
Levi Roberts, 12
PHOTOS BY CHLOE HARBAUGH AND CATHLEEN WENG
