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By my good friend Cassie Lee

Entering a new environment with new surroundings can be overwhelming, especially when told of how horrible it is going to be. However, every person must make his or her own assumption, instead of listening to someone else. High school freshmen had to learn this by listening to their junior high teachers and then finding out that high school is something completely different.
Being the top class at a school allows power, privileges, and confidence. As eighth graders, students showed no fear of anything. Instead they found humor in the fear of their younger companions, the sixth graders. Ironically, in a year, they would be placed in to a much more massive school, and become what they mocked, the school’s lower class.
Being eighth graders, students felt comfortable with their surroundings, and knew their place as head of the school. However, as the year ended, rumors began to surface from middle school teachers of untrusting, unforgiving, uncaring, high school teachers haunted them. High School became something feared. Middle school teachers lectured about how high school teachers would not put up with any nonsense or horseplay. Tardiness would be unforgivable, and punishments would be severe. Students at high school would be smothered with homework everyday, and all work would be extremely hard. Teacher after teacher explained how high school would be much harder than any incoming freshman could imagine. This “heads up” of which middle school teachers told their students would give every incoming freshman the idea of high school being a nightmare, when to some High school may seem to be more of a dream.
“High school was nothing like I thought it would be,” stated a current Clear Creek freshman. Year after year, about 1,200 new freshmen realize the difference in how they thought high school, and how it really is.
Once the panic of the situation dies down and the comfort begins to settle in, freshmen begin to comprehend and compare their eighth grade year to high school. “High school has much more freedom, and ability to do what you want,” said one freshman attending Creek. A majority of incoming freshmen every year often find out that high school is not even half as rough as they were told.
Changes can be good or bad, it depends on the person’s attitude towards the situation. After being groomed to fear high school, the reality begins to settle in. The difference in and making self-decisions, and believing another’s judgment could be completely dissimilar. The explanation of high school from television, movies, and middle school teachers is a fearful one. However, do not trust what you hear, for you must witness and experience, and make your own assumptions.

She lost, but we al hoped for her

Bobby Murphy

For only the second time in the history of CCISD a student has announced her bid for a position on the school board. Senior Mary Brown announced her bid late last month for the at-large position B on the school board, which manages affairs throughout the district. Her name will appear on the ballot of the May 5 municipal elections. Until the elections she will be encouraging students and teachers to vote, all while spending no money on her campaign. She will be facing long time Clear Lake resident Ann Hammond in the only competing race for a school board spot.
Until just recently, Brown said that she had no intention to run for the school board position, but after a number of kids in her government class began asking questions about the school policies that were being imposed, Mary Brown asked the one that no one had thought of. “How do I change the policy?” her government teacher answered “Run For School board,” so Mary Brown did just that, filing the necessary paperwork and making her candidacy official.
Brown is second in command of the school’s JROTC program, and she has a GPA that is considered by many colleges to be above average. She has also lived in the League City area for over ten years, and works as a tram tour guide at Johnson Space Center, making fpr a prestigious resume.
Brown said that the election would not affect her social life or her future. “My social life has only been affected by the increased number of handshakes that I give each day,” said Brown. She constantly reiterated in an interview that her graduation would come before her race, and that should she win the election she would easily be able to fulfill the duties of her position, and at the same time pursue her culinary arts degree at San Jacinto College. Brown plans to be a wedding planner in the future, after the elections are over and she has the chance to go to college.
There are more things on the mind of Mary Brown though than simply winning the election. Brown said that one of her main reasons for campaign was to encourage more people to vote. “I have been handing around voter registration cards, [and] I’ve really been spreading the word around to the senior class” said Brown. With voter registration at new low, Brown hopes that here bid for election will increase the number of younger voters, even if they are not voting for her.
Mary Brown’s candidacy is bold and innovative. If she wins her election she will be the youngest person ever to serve on the board of trustees. We all wish her the best of luck.

Check this place out if you are in the Webster Texas area

Bobby Murphy

Sudie’s Catfish and Seafood house is not only one of the only seafood restaurants in League City, but also a great place to go when people anywhere want a bite to eat. Located at 352 North on the Gulf Freeway the restaurant is in an ideal location where people can just turn off the freeway, into the restaurant parking lot, and come in and enjoy a bite to eat.
The restaurant takes pride in its seafood delicacies including their farm-raised Mississippi catfish and also their hand dipped butterfly shrimp. According to the menu long-time Sudies’s customers rate their shrimp and catfish as the best anywhere, and the restaurant owners hope that new guests that come to visit will think the same.
For the fish lover, restaurant managers suggest the house special that is all you can eat catfish. The special comes with pinto beans, fries, coleslaw, and also hushpuppies, which are served with every meal with tartar sauce and cocktail sauce. The special is available every day unlike most other seafood restaurants who only offer all you can eat specials as a promotion. For guests that do not have a very large appetite Sudie’s has many other menu items that are both smaller and more affordable than the all you can eat catfish special. The shrimp gumbo is a popular favorite amongst guests that are looking to save some money. It is both tasty and affordable. The Sudie’s Duo and Trio are two more menu favorites. The items allow guests their choice of either two or three fried seafood items. Finally, for those who do not like seafood, come visit Sudie’s anyway. Not only does Sudie’s offer great seafood but also a variety of other menu items like chicken fried steak and Rib-eye steaks and many more all prepared just as well as the seafood. However, for guests who visit the restaurant it is important to have a love for fried foods. At Sudie’s almost everything on the menu is fried, with a few exceptions including five different salads and deserts. Apart from that, most of the food is fried.
Sudie’s offers five different deserts that also go great after any meal, but not only will guests be satisfied with the way that the deserts taste, but they will also be satisfied with themselves because the restaurants donates a portion of all desert sales to local charities. However, the restaurant has two locations so the menu does not state how much, or to which charity money is contributed to, leaving guests with less satisfaction because they know that there money is going to a charity, but they do not know which one or how much is being donated, but this feature of the restaurant remains unique and is not done by any other restaurant in the gulf coast area.
Another unique feature about Sudie’s is that not only is it a restaurant, but it is also a candle shop. Sudie’s sells a variety of different scented candles with scents that range from French vanilla all the way to pumpkin. When guests walk in to the restaurant they are greeted by a shelf full of candles even before they reach the hostess podium. On most days guests might find Sudie’s a little crowded, and they may have to wait a while. Looking at the many different candles provides a diversion for those who visit the restaurant and find them waiting for a long tome.
In the rest of the restaurant the walls are decorated with many different fishing items and frames newspaper articles proclaiming the restaurant’s accomplishments. The restaurant has been featured in many local newspapers including the Chronicle, the Citizen, the Galveston Daily News, the Bayrunner magazine, and now the HiLife newspaper. Anywhere guests sit, they are sure to find these newspaper clippings.
Sudie’s has been serving the gulf coast area for twenty years from it’s location in Pasadena, and the restaurants owners hope the same will happen at their restaurant in League City. For more information the restaurant will be glad to answer any questions and take reservations. Call them at 281 338 5100.

I did this in spanish…it has proved to be a big help for all of my clasmates and now it can help you to

ü Have a thorough knowledge of what you are writing about before you begin to write.

ü Develop a list of 10-20 vocabulary words that will help you with your reading and writing.

ü Keep your sentences short, around 12 to 15 words.

ü Avoid using too many cliché transition words like porque and también.

ü Limit your use of unfamiliar words.

ü Try to use words you can say and words other people can understand.

ü Double-space so you can revise, but remember, you can’t do this on the AP test.

ü Check to make sure all of your sentences flow clearly and neatly.

ü Always proofread your writing to check for errors.

ü Most importantly, get feedback from other Spanish-speaking students to evaluate the quality of your paper.

Creado por Bobby Murphy