As you may know‚ this year’s theme is Brookside Tigers‚ Roaring and Soaring. How does this theme relate to us at school? Well‚ there are lots of reasons that a theme like roaring and soaring can be about all the students at Brookside‚ because in order to roar and soar‚ you don’t any practice whatsoever. Just a positive attitude and a creative mind. Yes‚ that would include Kindness‚ Respect‚ Imagination‚ and Determination‚ so here at Brookside‚ we really nailed it! From Kindness and Red Ribbon Weeks
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Stotan! Book Summary The book‚ Stotan!‚ is about a swimming team who went to state last year and did not do good at the swim meet. Because the team didn’t do good their coach holds something called a Stotan week at the school pool‚ all the swimmers sign up not knowing anything about Stotan week. When stotan week come around they are pushed to the very best they can do with little rest in between. The team is worked so hard that by the end of the week they are noticeably strings and their muscles
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into my aquarium in the dead of night and graciously set me free. Being on that team was a way for me to break out of my shell and be apart of something much bigger than myself. I had taken dance and trained to be on this team for basically my entire life and felt like I had this whole dance team thing in the bag‚ but nothing could have prepared me for our first outdoor practice. It was the middle of the day on the center of the football practice field in the bullseye of summer‚ the temperature had
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Have you ever been so scared to do something it affected your life? I have‚ I remember it like it was yesterday. I was only in the fourth grade when I found out I had stage fright‚ ever since then I have always been determined to overcome my fear but I never succeeded. If I could change something about myself it would be my stage fright. I was in fourth grade and I was asked by my best friends Sedina and Joshua to sing in the talent show with them‚ and I was too nice to say no. Joshua and Sedina
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I am standing on the back hash: in between the 30 and 35. I adjust my hat while I get into set position so I am prepared to preform. I hear the booming voice say‚ “Michaela Spillers‚ is your band ready for competition?” I wait for the drum major to give her salute. Check. The voice calls back‚ “Oxford high school‚ you may take the field for competition.” This is the moment the band has been practicing for all season. Participating in this band has helped me with strength‚ discipline‚ as well as making
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The movie Mindwalk‚ talks about interconnections‚ relationships‚ life‚ ethics‚ values. The movie gives a message that we should change our perspective to look at things. We should completely change the way we see the world‚ that is we need to understand that all problems are simply fragments of one single crisis‚ the crisis of perception. We need to change our system. The system thinks about intervention and not about prevention. Our world lacks vision‚ perspective‚ interconnectedness and relationships
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On Killing a Tree :: Poet: Gieve Patel. A well-known Indian poet and is a doctor by profession. He expresses his concern with living beings through images of violence. On killing a tree is not about the killing of a tree‚ but about the endless life in a tree. Paraphrase of the Poem: [1-9 lines] It takes a lot of time and strength to kill a tree because it grows slowly and rises out of the earth by absorbing years of sunlight air and water. So‚ it is not easy to kill a tree with a single stroke
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Some of Life’s Challenges Education has always played one of the most challenging parts of my life. It has become even more of a struggle with the other priorities in my life such as work and my hockey club team. I always try my best to get around to these events while at the same time‚ try to avoid the worst possibilities-like not having a source of transportation or falling behind schedule with another event. These issues of rides and time can occur often but I do learn to work with what my sources
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others‚ I was always excited to go to school. The reason behind my excitement was the Audio/Video production course I attended. Freshman year was the time I decided to open up my interest in film to those I knew. The responses were negative. “Get a life.” “Just stick to tennis.” “You’re wasting your time.” I was devastated as the negative responses produced a transparent boulder upon my shoulder. Nothing but stress was the only thing I felt. I was lost. I was confused. I was like my seventh grade
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training as a runner. I spent each practice with a clear mindset to workout as hard as I could ‚and when I got home I started testing different regiments of strength training to fine tune my body. From there I started to look at the smaller things in my life that I could change to support my body‚ and ultimately my running. I read articles and books about mental fortitude‚ fitness‚ and nutrition. My diet changed from the american junk food diet to one of whole grains‚ healthy fats‚ and lots of fruits and
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