Maxigumee

My father had me stop at the newspaper box this morning because he said he saw my school’s name in the headline and he wanted to know whether it was good news or bad news. It was pretty good news. I picked up the paper to learn that just today, my school was announced as number four on Newsweek’s list of the 100 best schools in the country. I was a bit confused because I had seen what I thought was that issue in an optometrist’s office last week. Now that I think about it, it was probably last year’s list which makes me seriously judge the ability of the optometrist.

To celebrate, my principal had the whole school come to the auditorium at eleven to make a big scene for the news cameras and special guests (the mayor, the superintendent, etc, etc). On the way in the auditorium, students handed out signs that we were supposed to wave as the cameras panned over us. The signs read such things as “Number 4, Biotch!” “We love AP and IB!” and “Dr. Kresse [our principal] is sexy!” You’ve got to hand it to us. For being officially one of the nerdiest schools in the country, we’ve still got somewhat of a sense of humor.

So many things have happened this school year! There was the dead body in the park where we have gym, the finger-loss of the technology teacher, a new principal, a whole bunch of other stuff…. and now this! I guess this is our…. well, I was going to say lucky, but losing your finger and being found dead aren’t exactly lucky things…. so, I guess I’ll say “interesting.” I guess this was our interesting year!