Log - Issue 3 - November 2014

The Northmen’s Log November 2014

Volume 50, Issue 3

But First Let Me Take A Selfie

Letter From the Editor

You may have guessed by the cover what one of the topics in this issue is about: selfies. We chose to do a story about selfies because we wanted to dive a little deeper into a form of entertainment that we as high school students enjoy. We take selfies and send them on Snapchat, and post them to Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

We want people to see us. Now the whole school gets to see these awesome selfies that may have you laughing, crying, or even a little confused. A picture can tell a story. What is your story?

In this issue, we also feature senior Kelsey Shannon who started out taking pictures for fun, but turned it into a business by shooting senior photos. For any se-

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niors who still need their pictures taken, you know who to go to. Also in this issue, you can learn how to make your very own chalkboard notebook to use when your bored in class and just want to draw on something.

This issue has been the toughest one yet to prepare since half our staff was in Washington, D.C. for nationals, but we as a staff work every minute on producing a magazine for you.

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News

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Saving the Trees Weird Holidays Are You Trippin’?

But First Let Me Take a Selfie

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People Tails of a Part-Time Job Traveling Across the States Who Would You Share a Coke With?

Security Soldiers

Feature

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Senior Kelsey Shannon shows her photography skills off as she poses for the camera.

Photography: A Passion, A Lifestyle

Photo credit to Kelsey Shannon

Recreation

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DIY: Chalkboard Notebook Holiday Movies Life Hacks Favorite Thanksgiving Food

Sports

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Role Models: Players’ Perspective Vokolek Changes the School For the Better

Opinion Rachel Bechthold, Kylie Dickson, Sam Sander, Alex Stump, Jomarie Circello, Kelly Andrews and Sophia Contreras paint up for the first football game against Winnentonka on Friday, Aug. 22.

Photo courtesy of Sam Sander

On the Cover:

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Christmas Too Soon Faking Smiles

Photo Essay

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Rise & Shine: Boy’s vs. Girl’s Mornings

Students pose for selfies with teamates, friends, staff, and animals.

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Contents 1

Weird Holidays Connor Annan Writer

All right let’s face it America is weird, and I’m pretty sure we all know that. But how some holidays express this weirdness amazes me.

September 19 is National Talk Like A Pirate day. I love this day because it gives me an excuse to be weird. John Baur and Mark Summers created it in 1995.

While playing racquetball they began to talk like pirates presumably out of frustration. They decided that there needed to be a day that everyone did this and thus Talk Like A Pirate day was born.

Saving the Trees

September 28 is national Ask A Stupid Question day. This is pretty much everyday for me, but this holiday originally had a great purpose. Ask a Stupid Question day was created by teachers in the 1980s to get students to ask more questions. It is sometimes celebrated on the last school day of September.

Did you know that Oak Park has a tree project?

The Oak Park tree project was started on April 24, 2009, by retired science teacher Connie Beeck.

Nathan Roppa Writer and Photographer

But First Let Me Take a Selfie

Mabrey Wathen Writer and Photographer

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So here are five of the top strangest fall holidays celebrated in America, and a little bit of backstory.

October 9 is Leif Erikson day. You all remember SpongeBob right, well as it turns out there actually is a Leif Erikson day. Leif Erikson is largely known among the historical community as the first European in America, and yes he was a Viking.

November 19 is Have A Bad Day day. This holiday was created for the soul purpose of having an excuse to tell someone to have a bad day.

And although it’s not encouraged it’s still pretty funny.

Buy Nothing day is celebrated the day after Thanksgiving.

It was created as a protest to big businesses commercializing Christmas and other holidays.

The map and plaque for the Tree Project sit outside of the cafeteria.

Photo credit to Nathan Roppa

Filter? Check.

Angle? Just right.

Hair? On point.

Let’s take a selfie.

Whether you’re going to a dance, going on vacation, or just hanging with friends, chances are there will be one, or more selfies that end up on the many social media sites like: Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.

Selfies, according to Oxford Dictionaries.com, are “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media.”

So what’s the big deal with them?

“Our generation’s just kinda likejust something about like our generation is just obsessed with them, so I guess it’s just a common thing now,” said junior Irving Espadas.

Everyone has taken a selfie at some point.

“I mean even like little kids are doing it, I don’t know it’s weird,” said Espadas.

Selfies haven’t shown any signs of dying out anytime soon.

“Personally, I don’t think they will, because it’s just like a big thing. It’s like I said, so every year it’s just -- it just passes on, so I don’t think it will die out anytime soon. It probably will, but not anytime soon,” said Espadas.

Espadas says, “[I take selfies] to get a lot of Instagram likes.”

Many people, especially teenagers, love taking and being apart of selfies.

With so much enjoyment and participation, it’s hard to tell if selfies will ever go out of style.

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Oak Street Singers pose for a picture after finding out about going to Hollywood. photo by Lisa Hickman

Are You Trippin’?

Mabrey Wathen Writer and Photographer Clubs and classes are traveling the country this year. Just where and why are they going?

AFS International Club goes on several trips during the school year, including: helping out at Harvesters in November, attending an opera in February, and roller skating or bowling in April. They go on different trips to let the exchange students have different experiences while they’re here.

The Principles of Engineering class went on a trip

to the Iatan Power Plant in Weston, Mo., on Wednesday, Sept. 24. They went there because they were discussing energy sources in class.

Thespians go on many trips, including various plays. They went to the Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s performance of “Our Town,” earlier this semester. The Thespians also attend the Missouri State Thespian Conference each year, which will be held in Kansas City. It will take place Jan. 7-10. They attend this conference to learn from teachers, meet others who do what they do, and have different opportunities to compete against other theatre students in Missouri.

The Housing and Interior Design class will see the Designer Showcase Home in Kansas City, in April. It will allow students to get a taste of what they discussed throughout the course.

There’s a new, big trip being taken this year by the Fashion Merchandising, Clothing and Fashion 2 classes. They are going

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Junior Madison Russell, senior Ryan Bennett, sophomore Remy Tran, senior Marie Desmurger and junior Mabrey Wathen wait for a tour of the Capitol building.

They competed at the national competition. photo by Maddie Russell to New York over spring break this March. This trip will give the students a chance to see and experience the fashion industry in real life, and what a career in fashion might have to offer.

If you decide to take higher level Modern Language classes, local field trips to places like: the Nelson-Atkins Museum, World War I Museum and Kansas City Repertory Theater, may be included. Before they go on

field trips, classes spend time studying about topics relative to where they will visit. During the summer, if you’re lucky, you’ll have the option to travel overseas with your class. The last trip to France was in summer 2012, and to Germany was 2010.

Oak Street is going to Hollywood, Calif., in April.

They take a trip each year to celebrate the year, and all the seniors who will be leaving. They often compete or perform in some way while on the trip.

The journalism students involved with Cambia, The Northmen’s Log and The Axe, have the opportunity to compete in the national high school journalism competition Write Offs competition each November, in a different location each year. This year, on Wednesday, Nov. 5 to Sunday, Nov. 9, students travelled to Washington D.C. Next, school year, they will compete in Orlando, Fla., and have a chance to visit one of the theme parks in their spare time. They also compete at MU each April for state.

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Tails

of a Part Time Job

Mabrey Wathen Writer and Photographer Coming home covered in hair can be a real hassle, but for senior Courtney Bowman it’s just another day on the job. Aside from attending Oak Park, Bowman has a part time job at the Animal Clinic of Antioch Annex.

“I sometimes work the counter, like check people in, check people out. I also help the vet in sort of the middle area, which is like where I pull up vaccines, get people ready for him to see them.

And then I also work in the back, which is where I walk the dogs, clean messes, and stuff along those lines,” said Bowman.

This isn’t a typical part-time job you hear of high school students having. “[I got this job because] My cousin is friends with the son of the owners of the clinic – or was friends with the son.”

If just working at the clinic wasn’t cool enough, Bowman also gets to observe some surgeries that go on.

“In surgeries I legally can’t like really help out, but I adjust like the oxygen and I help him whenever he needs something, I bring it to him, and then I sometimes

watch,” said Bowman.

The clinic treats animals like dogs and cats, but they also treat some more unusual animals.

“There’s this lady that comes in there, and she has a license to handle special animals, like zoo animals-she sells ‘em to the zoo.

And we’ve had a kangaroo there, um she brings in wild cats, like not just feral cats, they’re a special kind of cat that looks really weird. And then other than that, its dogs, any type of cat like Siamese, all those crazy things, and then um ferrets. Which I think is disgusting. Ferrets are gross. But mainly cats, dogs, and ferrets… and that lady’s weird animal fetish,” said Bowman.

Bowman loves when she gets to enjoy cute moments with the different animals.

Bowman said, “Basically every time a new puppy comes in I’m just overloaded with cuteness, because they are always just so nice. Its before they get mean at the vets office and so they always cuddle me and its fantastic, I mean who doesn’t love to cuddle puppies?”

Primped. Senior Courtney Bowman and the staff at the Animal Clinic of Antioch Annex help the vet with the animals. “There’s only one vet, so you’ll always be seeing the same vet every time.

And I know from personal experience he genuinely cares about all the animals he deals with,” said Bowman.

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Lounging around. “The cat’s name is Frankie, and she lives at the clinic. She always lays on the desk, I call her my guard cat,” said Bowman.

Photo credits to Courtney Bowman

“Jake Dyer,” said senior Mae Haler

“My mom,” said junior Ali Ishkuntana

“My roommate Sam,” said junior Mc O’Shea

Who Would You Share A

With?

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Security Soldiers Connor Annan Writer Have you ever seen one of the school security guards wandering the halls? Chances are you probably have.

But how much do we really know about the guys that defend our school? I took the liberty to get to know them better, and as it turns out they’re pretty cool.

One guard is Marc Carbonetto.

“I spent almost 27 years as a United States Marine, and during that timeframe I’ve had the opportunity to travel around the world.

And do different world events as far as humanitarian aid and combat deploy-

ments. Back home probably some of my fun times I remember I’ve had the opportunity to perform on stage with several bands, and singers notably one of them being Kid Rock in the Sprint Center a few years ago.”

Moving out of one uniform to another to civilian clothes guided him to the halls of OP. “I kind of came across this job as soon as I had retired from the marine core. I was in the corporate world for about seven months as an assistant vice president and manager for a banking institution here doing a whole suit and tie

“Back home probably some of my fun times I remember I’ve had the opportunity to perform on stage with several bands, and singers notably one of them being Kid Rock in the Sprint Center a few years ago.” thing, and I kind of got tired of that. I wanted to find a job not necessarily in security, but that got me into a position where I could be a role model for young men

and women especially here in high school.”

Danny Pearson also works as a hall guard.

“A little bit of everything from hall monitor to make sure kids get to where they’re going, to kind of a social worker. I kind of listen to everybody try and get them pointed in the right direction if they need any resources or people to help.”

Both men said they liked working in the building. So they are not only security guards but social workers too. They’re here to help in every way they can.

Traveling Across the States Olivia Eissler Editor-in-Chief

As college application due dates on studying international business creep up, seniors’ time to choose a and playing for their soccer team. college dwindles. With thousands of “I chose Niagara because the offer colleges and degrees to choose from, they gave my brother and I for socpicking one is one of the hardest cer and they have a good soccer prothings to do in life. gram,” said SoloWhere you go and “I chose Niagara because the rio. what you choose offer they gave my brother Solorio chose determines your and I for soccer and they have to study internanext steps in life. tional business But some seniors a good soccer program,” said because he wants have already made to travel around Solorio. the call to where the world, experithey are going. ence new cultures “I’m excited for the experience of and get associated with the soccer incollege, meeting new people and get- dustry and work with different clubs ting away from home,” said senior around the world. When he goes off Hector Solorio. to college, Solorio is not looking forSolorio may attend Niagara Uni- ward to being home sick. versity in New York where he plans “I want to go to Boston University

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because I want to be a pediatrician,” said senior Tiffany Grazda.

Grazda chose Boston University, because it has a world-renowned children’s hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, five minutes away from the college.

“I want to be a pediatrician, because last summer I was an intern at Dr. Stephaney Marx’s office,” said Grazda. “I fell in love with the career.”

Grazda also would like to minor in dance as she is a currently on the Pommies, and dances competitively with P & D Dance Company.

“I am not looking forward to missing my family and having a hard workload,” said Grazda.

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Photography:

A Pas

Maddie Russell Managing Editor Most people have heard the saying ‘A picture tells a you get photographers’ block. I’ve had photographers’ thousand words’, but do you really need that many to block for the past three months and it’s just when you tell a story? For senior Kelsey Shannon, photography are totally uninspired. You look back on your other has become involved in her personal life as a hobby pictures and you think ‘wow I was so inspired back and a profession. then, why can’t I do that?’ but you can’t think of a sin“I’ve always loved taking pictures. I’ve always been gle thing and it’s really frustrating.” the one to take pictures of my friends and I’ve always In the fall of this year, Shannon was inspired with been the one to keep them,” Shannon said. a new form of photography which was taking senior Shannon originally started taking pictures in five pictures. years, but didn’t get into the photography aspect until “I started taking senior pictures to make money her freshman year. mostly but I really like it because it offers me a chance “I love taking pictures of everything in my life be- to be creative with someone other than myself and cause I love documenting memories. But the whole to make them look good and feel good about themphotography aspect of it, what inspired me was being selves,” Shannon said. creative,” Shannon said.

Shannon said she doesn’t usually plan out the shoot Shannon’s main focus in her or know what she wants to personal photography is her “Everyone thinks that the cigarette is do until she gets to the loself-portraits. cation.

“I mostly take self portraits real, but it’s not. I Photoshopped it in.”

“There really isn’t a probecause I have a specific look cess it’s just what I feel and idea to portray through good with taking and what Kelsey Shannon the photo and I only trust mythey’re okay with. The perself to do it.” son and I just walk around Shannon said that surprisingly, most of her best and take a picture and hope that it turns out good and photos she’s taken were accidents or very unplanned. it seems to. There also isn’t really a set time for how “My favorite picture that I have ever taken is the one long it takes, it depends on how long the person wants that I have a cigarette in my hand. The story behind it to be and how well the photos turn out.” that would be that, well, one, everyone thinks that the For photography as a whole, Shannon explained cigarette is real, but it’s not. I Photoshopped it in. Sec- photography doesn’t take as much skill as some would ond, I had just woken up when I took that picture, and think. that’s why my hair is a mess.”

“I think it requires creativity and determination Shannon said she doesn’t usually have set times more than skill because when you start out the picwhen she takes pictures, but when she gets inspired, tures always suck but you get better as you go, because that’s when the camera comes out. when I started in seventh grade my pictures were abBut just like writers, photographers also have times solutely terrible. Since then I’ve had time to grow and where they can’t seem to figure out what to shoot. change along with my pictures and they’re completely “The hardest thing about taking pictures is when different compared to where I started from.”

Senior Kelsey Shannon created this image with Photoshop by combining a selfie and an image of a cigarette.

All Photo Credits to Kelsey Shannon

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ssion, A Lifestyle Interesting Facts about Kelsey

Before the editing process

After the editing process

Senior Kelsey Shannon displays her photo editing skills between the two pictures she created on Sunday, Sept. 7.

* She used a Canon T3. *It takes her about 15-20 minutes to edit her photos.

*She charges $30 for senior pictures. *Her first customer for her senior picture business was 2014 graduate Madison McDermott.

Kaley Breault (left) and Julia Wopata (right) pose for their senior pictures.

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*Customers always pick the location when she shoots.

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DIY:

Chalkboard Notebook

Maddie Russell Managing Editor

1.

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Materials Composition Notebook Chalk Chalk Board Paint Thin Decorative Duct tape Paint Brushes Newspaper

Once that coat is on, wait about 15 minutes for it to dry, then apply a second coat, spreading it horizontally. Wait about 15 minutes for this coat to dry.

Repeat steps 3-6 if you would like to paint the back of the notebook.

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Photo credit to Maddie Russell

3.

If you don’t want to make a mess, spread the newspaper out to make sure to not get paint on anything.

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Put a good amount of paint onto the notebook and slowly start to spread it in vertical strokes.

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Repeat steps 3 and 4 however many times it takes for the paint to completely cover the design.

When everything is completely dry, you may now draw on your notebook with the chalk and write/ draw whatever you want.

Use your Duct tape to cover the binding to hide any paint splotches or marks you may have made during the painting process.

9.

The final product.

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Do you like oranges but don’t like peeling them? Roll the orange around on a clean, flat surface for a minute. It makes the orange much easier to peel.

Like pomegranate seeds, but hate the work? Cut your pomegranate in half get a flat object like a big spoon and smack the back of the pomegranate over a big bowl.

Favorite Thanksgiving Food:

Life Hacks

Connor Annan Writer

Photo credit to Olivia Eissler Editor-in-Chief

What are life hacks? Well they are great things that few people know about that make life easy. Like the little punches on the side of tinfoil boxes that keep it from falling out of the box when you pull. Some of these are so mind-bogglingly simple you will wonder how you didn’t come up with them!

If you want to get rid of a strawberry stem, get a straw and push it through the strawberry bottom to top.

Cody Green Writer and Photographer

Holiday Movies Dumb and Dumber To Nov. 14

Set 20 years after the first movie, Lloyd and Harry set out to find one of their long lost children.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Pt. 1 Nov. 21 After the events that took place in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Katniss is in District 13, fighting to save Peeta and the nation of Panem.

Mabrey Wathen Writer and Photographer

Information and photos from imdb.com The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies Dec. 17

Bilbo and the rest of the dwarves, as well as others, are thrust into a war against Smaug and the orcs, to protect MiddleEarth.

Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb Dec. 19

Larry goes around the world to try and find a way to save the magic, before it’s gone for good.

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R o l e

Vokolek

Changes the School for the Better Olivia Eissler Editor-in-Chief Students may have noticed some minor and major changes to the school at the beginning of the year. They can thank athletics director Casey Vokolek for having a significant role in these.

“Well when you’re just speaking facilities-wise, we think we have been able to do some things with the help of our central office,” said Vokolek. “We did some pretty significant upgrades. We had talk about updating the girls locker room and moving it so it is attached to the gym so they have the same access to it as the boys do. The additions to the multi-purpose area, and the new weight room, and the new wrestling room.

Updating the tennis courts and changing the colors on those.

All of those things we think are things that our students as far as we know really enjoy and are proud to have those things.”

In the future some upgrades the school may look at include updating the main theater, getting new turf, adding new showers and shower curtains so people can actually use them and lights on the baseball, softball and football fields.

“I have been here for a couple of years, so I have talked to coaches and students to see what is important to them,” said Vokolek. “We figure out stuff that the kids need, see if that is schoolwide, and then figure out what we can and can’t do.”

When new changes come up, they are originally from what students and staff have mentioned and are then talked about.

To get things approved for change, the administrators discusses and agrees on whether the school needs that change.

Next, money becomes a big factor, so the administrators have to figure out ways to save enough money to cover all the expenses needed to make the change.

For the new roof, which cost $2 million, which is being installed this year, the money came from the $20 million district bond issue approved in April.

“I think with the administration here, what we have continually tried to do is to develop a positive culture, and help our students know that they can truly achieve what they want to achieve,” said Vokolek. “We want to make it a great high school experience for them, and so everything we do whether be through instruction, in the class room, through our activities, through big events like Homecoming, we want to look at that as a way to give our students a memorable school experience.

When they look back, we hope they where really proud to go to Oak Park and that they feel like they wouldn’t have wanted to go anywhere else.”

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“My dad,” said senior Kevin O’Brien, who plays basketball.

“My sister Kim,” said junior Karli Reichert, who plays volleyball.

“Emily Ballard,” said senior Rebecca Hughes, who plays basketball.

M o d e l s

Olivia Eissler Editor-in-Chief Photo credit to Olivia Eissler

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Christmas

Arrives Too Fast

Effy Minnick Writer Christmas is one of the biggest holidays of the year and is a favorite for many people. Is that why we start to see stores and people put out decorations months in advance?

For as long as I can remember, stores like Kmart, WalMart and Target have had their Christmas decorations out in November and sometimes in even October. There were even ads online in September!

Halloween hasn’t even passed and yet we’re already seeing Christmas trees and other winter decorations up.

Basically, instead of Christmas being focused on a couple weeks, maybe a month, and it’s pretty much being spread into a three-month stretch. Christmas has become so over advertised. I think that’s why every year people, including myself, don’t feel like it’s even Christmas or have a lack of “Christmas Spirit.”

Christmas starts months in advance and has become so commercial, people may never celebrate Christmas for the right reasons anymore, October is no longer focused just on Halloween; November is no longer just fo-

cused on Thanksgiving. For example, how long do you see things up for Thanksgiving? It doesn’t get its share fair of attention. People are more worried about Black Friday sales than they are Thanksgiving; last year stores started pre-Black Friday on Thanksgiving Day, taking people away from their families.

On the other hand some families’ look past all the commercialization. Christmas can mean different things to different people.

Families could celebrate it just for giving and receiving; others may celebrate it for religious reasons. Christmas could be the highlight of someone’s year. Maybe it’s the only time they see their distant family and feel closer together.

Christmas has become so focused on profit and gifts that people have forgotten the true meaning of the holiday. There is way more to Christmas than the presents.

Stores should wait to put out Christmas merchandise so everyone can enjoy the more current holidays.

Faking Smiles Joseph Haas Writer and Photographer

Today is just like any other. I wake darkness. Everyone else sees that I up, I go to school, I go home and then have a smile on my face and they just I go to bed. Well, except for the dai- think I’m a happy person. ly struggle of feeling worthless. I go As for me, being a cheerleader through this every has taught me to “Depression is a mental ill- fake everything. day.

Depression is a ness that consumes you and I have to put on mental illness that smile for comall you can think of is how apetitions consumes you and and you can improve to meet all you can think games. When in of is how you can reality, I feel like everyone’s expectations.” improve to meet I am nothing and everyone’s expecthat no matter tations. You start to get devoured by what, I am worthless and not good

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enough. I have dealt with this for as long as I can remember.

I am always told, I look happy, and that I bring smiles to other people’s faces. Which, don’t get me wrong, is really good. But in reality, I am just faking my smile to make it look like I am a happy, upbeat, fun person.

Depression is a mental illness. It affects more than you think. You can see someone like me, preppy and happy, but they can hide a lot of their emotions and you could never tell.

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Rise &

Boy’s Vs.

6:30 Senior Conner Clapham awakes from his deep sleep.

6:35

Clapham showers to smell fresh for the day.

6:47 Clapham chooses his Royals shirt to wear.

6:52

Clapham eats his stack of pancakes.

7:05

Senior Conner Clapham

Clapham brushes his teeth before heading to school.

7:08

Clapham backs out of his garage heading to school.

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Shine

Girl’s Mornings

Maddie Russell Managing Editor Olivia Eissler Editor-in-Chief

6:15 Senior Julia Wopata huddles under her blankets as she waits for her alarm to go off.

6:20

Wopata eats her mom’s homemade breakfast bars, drinks her coffee and reads the paper.

6:35

Wopata searches in her closet for an outfit to wear.

6:40

Wopata brushes her teeth after putting on her outfit.

6:45

Wopata straightens her hair before leaving for school.

Senior Julia Wopata

7:00

Wopata backs out of her garage, heading to school.

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