May 2007 - Special Senior Issue

May 18, 2007
From
the
Lips
of
Laura
Recently, while I was sitting at my computer thinking
about just anything that popped in my mind, I thought
of my future and man if it works out how I planned it, my
future is going to be amazing!
I started out thinking about what I’ll do after I graduate.
Well, the first week of June I’m going on my first everfamily
vacation, and I mean family vacation. There are 17
of us going to Cape Cod, and that’s practically every member
of my family. After we get back I’ll do the usual and
get a job and attend DACC this fall. Now here’s where it
get’s really exciting.
After a year at DACC, I’m going to move to California.
I’m going to be one of those “struggling whatever’s”.
After five awesome years of living there I’ll start to realize
that I’ve lived the “California Lifestyle” a little too much.
I will tell a few of my friends, Lindsey, Paris, and Brittany,
goodbye and we will spend our last night on the town
shaving our heads and getting tattoos. Then I will give
up my job of selling maps to celebrity’s houses (which
probably lead you to run off a cliff or something like that)
and return home.
Laura
By Laura Lucas
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When I arrive back home my parents
are going to be happy to see me.
I’ll have lots of little brothers and sisters
running around because my mom
always said when I left the house she
was going to a third world country and
adopt lots of kids.
I’ll call up a couple of friends,
Ashley Edington (ED), Chelsey
DeYoung (ChelDog), Kyle Paul Collom
(Kypalcom), Josh, Dixie, and Megan
Beck (Betty), and we’ll go to the OTP
and I’ll tell them how California was
amazing and how I want to go back.
I’ll stay at home for four months,
unemployed of course, because I made
a million dollars selling maps, and I’ll
be talking to ED one late night. We’ll discuss some inventions
we thought of at Pizza Hut during a Journalism competition.
We decide that we could really make a lot of money off
our inventions so ED will move back to California with me
The Oakwood Times
Look around seniors because we’ll never be together again
Now I don’t want to write another sad
farewell column, but I would like to reminisce
on my high school years, and offer my advice
for the underclassmen to take or to leave.
My high school experience was, well
… interesting. I am not going to say I loved
every second of high school, but I definitely
didn’t hate it all either. High school is a learning
experience that should not be ignored.
I look back at the Homecomings, pep
assemblies, long discussions about life,
cheerleading, late night truck stop visits, and
my life-long friends that I am soon going to
leave forever. I have had a blast being my
funny self thoughout high school. It has definitely
hit me that it’s all about to come to an
end.
I will always remember what my grade
school music teacher told us once in a music
class. She said that when you guys are seniors
in high school on graduation day look
around. That day is going to be the last day
ever that your class as a whole will be together.
We have reunions, and all of that, but
people will die, move away, or just not come
back. If you think about it, it’s scary to think
that some of the kids that you have grown up
with all of your life you will never see again.
All the teachers and students at OHS
are unique individuals that I am very glad
that I’ve gotten to know. I’m going to miss
everyone and everything, but I’m ready to
grow up.
So to all of the underclassman, make
sure you make your decisions wisely. Don’t
let the little fights with your friends ruin your
friendships. High school boyfriends and girlfriends
aren’t a life or death situation. Be careful
about the decisions that you make not
only in school, but outside of it also.
I never thought that I was going to
care if I was going to get to go on the Senior
Picnic or not, but I had a blast. That was one
of the last memories that I will have with some
of my friends from OHS.
As a senior, you get many privileges
for the sacrifices that you have made throughout
your high school years. When those last
few weeks of senior year come around, all
you want to do is spend your last few moments
at OHS with the people that helped
shaped your life.
Though high school might not be the
best years of your life, try to make the best of
them. So although I am going to miss OHS,
it’s time to move on.
As the quote says “All good things
must come to an end,” and it’s time for my
high school years to end.
My future has already been carefully planned out
Little Drummer Girl
along with Cheldog and Kypalcom.
I can not disclose what the inventions
are because you will steal our
ideas and then we will sue you,
but what I will tell you is that our
inventions are so amazing. We will
make billions upon billions upon
billions of dollars. We will be bigger
than Google and Donald
Trump. Cheldog will become a famous
actress and Kypalcom will
be the President of the world.
ED and I will eventually
settle down. ED and Betty will get
in a fight because ED marries
Channing Tatum and that forces
Betty to move back to Illinois. I
will marry Josh Groban and live happily ever after.
Yes, this column is pointless and so not true, BUT
you should all take Journalism class your junior year.
By Jessica Burress
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Volume 22
Issue 9
May 18, 2007
Editors in Chief
Managing Editor
Copy Editor
Business Manager
Photo Editor
Editorial Director
Reporters
Advisor
Jenna Hazelbaker
Erin Pouilliard
Kimber Hawkins
Brooke Eickhoff
Ashley Sermak
Jena Foley
Laura Lucas
Jessica Burress
Eric Brazelton
Ashley Edington
Meghan Hohn
Tucker Knight
Joe Lewis
Carly Wilson
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