“The Notebook” offers romance for moviegoers

by Alesha McCulloch

“The NoteBook” movie is based on a love story. It focuses on and old man reading the love story to his old woman “his wife” in a nursing home. The story he reads is about two young lovers Allie and Noah who meet at a carnival. After they find love for each other Allie’s parents disapprove. Noah’s family was very unwealthy and Allie’s wasn’t, so her parents moved her away.

Allie was only 17 when all this happened but after waiting for Noah to write her for several years she finally gave up and married Lon, a young handsome soldier. Allie still loves Noah but she doesn’t think he loves her back. 

Noah wrote Allie 365 letters but she never received them. So after years go by, Noah tries to go see her as he runs into her at a restaurant as he finds her there with her new so called “lover” and he’s heart broken. Allie realizes he’s there and can’t make up her mind, she got to choose between her first love or her fiancé.

So after those seven years passed, after seeing Noah, Allie is drawn back to him. They spent a few days together and she realizes her first love is the only one she wants. She doesn’t want to leave Noah. With her love for Noah still alive, she has to go back with him. So in the end Noah and Allie live happily ever after.

“The Notebook” is one of the greatest romantic love stories/movies of all time. It was released on June 25, 2004. It took place in a small southern town in the 90’s. It was a very popular novel and film. Some of the notebook cast are Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, and James Marsden.

I enjoyed this movie and I recommend it to any love couple that wants a romantic evening!

Lazy Talent

By Clara Burton

Time like wind, yet still for me
a helpless soul of infamy
the voice of reason pounds my brain
with curses, hopes to me insane

the lazy loiter that is myself
sitting worthless upon a shelf
an invention divine or so it thinks
quietly lounging and bumming drinks

Reason curses and screams again
Trying desperately to be a friend
Guilt the loiter sits even so
ambitions a plenty but nothing, no!

So reason fades and the loiter ages
bumming, sitting what ever it crazes.
Gifts rotting, dreams untaken
To me myself, future forsaken.

Talent be luck, bestowed by god
practice, perfected, not just to be awed
Used for love, great good of people
This be your quest, your bible, your steeple

Student uses cans to create new style

by McKenna Click

I’ve always been the secretly creative type.  Never coming to school in wild outfits but, making unique pieces to go with them.  Recently, I learned a new way to make a creative accessory out of a recycled can.

My family is not a one of huge soda drinkers, but surprisingly we have a good amount of aluminum cans.  After sifting through our mountainous pile of cans I found a Coke can featuring the new design on the Coke can that was suitable for use.

Once I had chosen my cans of choice I carried them inside and thoroughly rinsed the cans out with warm water.  For bad cans I suggest soaking the cans in warm soapy water for about 10 minutes.  When the 10 minutes is up dump out the water and tap the can on a towel to get stubborn water out.

While the water is sitting in the can gather the rest of the materials.  The rest of the materials are; ribbon, a Sharpie, hot glue, hot glue gun, scissors, and wire cutters.  Take the materials to a non-carpeted area.  If the aluminum cans are taken to a carpeted area when the aluminum is cut, shards of aluminum can fly and get caught in the carpet.  That makes it dangerous to any one else walking on the carpet.

After all materials have been gathered, the fun part starts.  Now it’s time to make the accessory.  To start decided if you’d like to make a hair pin or a head band.  I’ll explain how to do both.  They both start out the same way, cut off the top and bottom of the can and cut a slice down the side of the can.  Don’t worry about cutting the can neatly.

Now get out a piece of paper and raw a flower pattern and cut it out.  Then lay the pattern on top of the silver part of the can and trace it in Sharpie. Then cut the pattern out of the aluminum.  This would be a good time to turn on the hot glue gun.

Once the aluminum flower has been cut out the paper template can be thrown away.  Lay the new template (the aluminum flower) on the aluminum and create bigger petals.  Then cut out and repeat as desired.

Once the pieces are cut there is some deviation.  If making a pin, hot glue the pieces together and add something fun on the top.  Place a dab of hot glue on the silver part of the flower, press the pin in, and place another dab of glue to seal it.

To make the headband first the actual headband needs to be made.  To do this, choose a color ribbon that goes with the can and cut a piece that wraps comfortably around your head.  Once that step is complete, hot glue the stretchy part in.

Next, puncture tiny holes in all of the flowers.  Here’s where creativity plays in, any beads or stones can be beaded onto the wire.  Once the beads are on thread them through the holes and secure with a dab of glue.  The flower’s “petals” need to be folded up carefully.  Once the petals have been folded the flower is done.

To finish off the product, decided where to put the flower and push the wire through the ribbon.  Pull the flower taut against the ribbon and twist the wire at a 90-degree angle.  Secure the flower with a dab of hot glue and cut off the remaining wire.  When the glue has dried the headband is ready to wear.

Mattie

Mattie napping in the sunlight next to my teddy bear. Photo by Tori Kruer.

Basketball

by Tavis Lloyd

Around my back through my legs

in the hoop is were it lays.

Do a twirl do a spin.

Everone knows whose gonna win.

You wanna play me in basketball son?

I’ll show everybody im number one.

Thats an opionion thats a fact.

I even beat shaq.

I had Allen Iverson shacking in his shoes.

Kobe Bryant wiping his tears with a tissue

Someone said you could beat me they tricked you.

Your freidnds say i shoot three pointers better than you do.

Snow

The texture of the snow and bushes. Photo by JT Samart

The Game

by Sidney Reynolds

Squeak boom swish
Squeak boom swish

Think fast
Move quick
Act don’t hesitate
Time moves fast so don’t wait

Squeak boom swish
Squeak boom swish

Take the shot or pass it off
You’re not alone
Everyone needs help thats why you team’s there
Not just you by yourself

Squeak boom swish
Squeak boom swish

So play your play
Don’t get mad
Todays your day

Squeak boom swish
Squeak boom swish

Ten players
Two rims
One ball
Who’s gonna win?

Kissing in the Rain

by Alaina King

I stepped off the bus smelling rain in the air. Gray clouds covered the sky predicting more rain.

The dreary, rainy day fit perfectly into how I felt. Depressed. Sad. Angry. I walked into my driveway hearing gravel crunching under my boots only reminded me of the crunching of my heart.

Standing in the middle of my driveway, I threw my backpack down and stood. Just stood. As if on cue, huge raindrops began to fall, soaking my hair and clothes.
With everything boiling inside of me, I bent and picked up a handful of rocks and launched them toward my house. Nothing could describe the way I felt anymore.

“Alexis!” someone called from behind me.

I turned around and faced the only guy who could make me feel the way I do now.

Garrett Morris, a junior, has managed to steal my heart in a week and shatter it in a day. A relationship that was as nonexistent as dinosaurs, has messed me up completely.

I could only imagine what I looked like. Brown hair plastered across my face, frowning, and hands dirty from the rocks.

“Garrett, what are you doing here?” I asked slowly.

“I came for you.” he said without hesitation. I searched his face for any lies it may contain. His blue eyes were true, face composed seriously, and no unusual body language.

“Why?” I ask.

“Because I made a mistake losing you and I can’t bear to not have you anymore,” he said. All the words I had been wanting him to say for a week now, rang in my ears.

“Go away, Garrett,” I say coldly.

“Don’t walk away, Alexis,” he pleaded.

“What choice do I have?” I cried. “You played ME and broke MY heart, the damage has been done.”

“I want to fix the damage.”

“There wouldn’t have been any damage if you didn’t do what you did in the first place!”

“Alexis, it took the loss of you, to realize I love you.”

Tears streamed down my face with the rain. I shook my head and squeezed my eyes shut.

“No, Garrett.” I turn around and start to walk away. The only thing I focused on was not turning around and going back.

Before I could resist or protest, Garrett grabbed my arm and spun me around. He looked me straight in the eye and said: “I’m changing for you. I love you, Alexis.”

In seconds, he caressed my face and kissed me. I’ve wished for this moment since we met.

Garrett was the guy for me and apparently I was for him.

So there we stood in a frozen moment kissing in the rain.

The Ever After

by Katlyn Bartel

 

I feel like I am in a spectacular forest
Filled with dragons and fairies
Searching for an ever after.
I sweep though the tinted swamps
Thats covered in devastation and humiliation.
Hopelessly I wait for a clear sky,
But sadly its covered in disguise.
I scream for help,
Thou help save me from the cruel,
Cruel whispers if the night.
Flashbacks of my ever hell strikes me like
Lighting, meeting the surface of the world.
Tis my sweet shinning armor
Will come save me.
I hope with all joy and prosperity
My romeo will come save me
With nothing to spare,
But a sword of shinning light
This is gleaming through the trees.
He gently picks me up
And hold me in his arms
And combs my mischievous hair.
As I look into his wondering eyes of beauty
I know in my heart
He has come to save me
And cover up my worries
And put a happy
On my happily ever after.

Ice flow

Ice flowing from a gutter on the side of a house. Photo by Madison Rice.