The Mysterious Sound
It sounds like a slithering snake making a pattern with it's tounge over and over again. The rattlesnakes sound like if a string is being pulled making a squeaky sound when it's let go. The pitch is high but its continues to wonder off in to a certain pattern that at the ending part it repeats faster. As the the beginning seems to fade off, there's a repetition of a bang after ten seconds of the sound starting. This only happens two times every five seconds continuing with the normal sound. Later on in the middle a differnet sound comes in the background sounding like a dog barking every three seconds. This continues after the end is almost near, then it stops and suddenly appeared barking out of nowhere for the last time. Have you ever been to the Amozan jungle? Well I think that with all the noctornal animals seeking through the night and making these strange sounds it could actually sound like this. Anyone can actually hear this sound by just walking outside. Hearing the small insects that come in the night make you imagine and think that they are many different things. But once you get to hear it really well you understand it and try figuring out. I couldn't have imagined myself that this was just the cicada chorus signals the arrival of summer in New Zealand.

First Day of High School

Karina Felix
October 6, 2009

First Day of High School

My alarm clock went off as loud as a honk in my ear; I woke up frightened not knowing what was going on. I suddenly got up and moaned, and it straight up hit me,” People aren't going to see me as a child anymore", I said comforting myself in the soft cushions next to my warm bed. I reminded myself about last night before going to bed, closing my eyes trying to not feel all these emotions that I was going to go through today. I had millions of questions about how everything would turn out. I opened my eyes with a quick jump out of my bed fidgeting to open the window gracing in the coldness of the mist and hearing birds chirping a melodies song through the hollow trees. This made me feel more peaceful and rethink that today was going to be my first day as a freshman at High Tech High Media Arts. Thinking about freshman year and how it was going to be like, I got a tingle in my stomach and put a big smile on my face, trying not to show that I was really nervous inside.

I got into my favorite shirt that I had picked out last night; it had colorful squares on it and made my personality stand out. In the process of finishing, I quickly ran to the bathroom beating my brother, knowing that he was going to take an hour. Finding myself through the door removing his arm from the gold doorknob he made fuzz as he left. My thoughts couldn't be removed even though I lost half of my memory I thought about many things that were going through my mind, how life as a high schooler was going to be like? What were the teachers like? Were my friends going to be there? Is it going to be harder than last year? I even got to thinking that sometimes people suddenly change in their moment of glory. I wondered if I would mature more and be a part of the older people that looked at life in a different way than others. My brother always warned me that it was no fun and games at times but you had more privileges if you could handle them.

As I walked slowly down the hallway passing by a mirror I spotted my reflection going right through me, I looked at this unexpectedly. It was just staring at me trying to look for something in me that I couldn't find. I looked up and down at myself noticing that I had already turned into a different person than I was before. I had that look on my face that said, "What the heck am I thinking." Then I started reflecting on what my thoughts were awhile ago, and they all made sense now. At that moment in time I knew my life wasn't going to be the same anymore. All of these questions and thoughts that had been wondering in my head without any answers were finally figured out and resolved. Now people were going to look at me in a different way, and I would experience more things than I would ever imagine. This really opened my eyes and I got excited to meet new people and achieve new goals that I had set for this year.

LOCKER PROBLEM<3

CREATEd by KARiNA FELiX
1,000 students have opened and shut lockers according to who came first. So the first one came and opened every locker. The next student suddenly came and closed every other locker. This pattern started repeating until at the end. In total the answer was that there was 31 lockers opened. The reason of getting the answer was because there was a certain pattern that was going on with the lockers. It was 1 open, 2 shut, 1 open, 4 shut, 1 open, 6 shut.....etc. All the numbers with perfect squares have odd number of factors and thats why they were opened and the rest were shut. There was 31 perfect squares in total from 1-1,000.