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Walking into Walnut Hills High School right now would have anyone thinking the just walked into the middle of a tornado. Everyone you look there are students running in and out of doors, in and out of cars, and most certainly either turning in missing assignments or retaking tests. There is only one way for you to explain all this ciaos, Senior Year, the year that all teens await with so much excitement and ambition and the year that every single hour long study dates pays off. For the class of 2021 this isn’t just their final year at Walnut Hills this is the year that friends separate and head off to their different university to follow their dreams.
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I always enjoy knowing that because of just taking a simple fine art class has changed my life forever. By comparing my experiences as a cheerleader and being a theatre kid, it’s made me look at how much cheerleading was holding me back. I wanted to alway prove to my team mates of my skills and potential, but it was known that I would always be that girl “ taking one for the team”. It never occurred to me at the beginning of sophomore year where that could be where I start a new chapter of my life and know that there is more to life out there than just sports. Seeing that I was an athlete for such a long period of time, it never gave me the pure enjoyment that theatre has provided me in such a short amount of time.
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The last semester of my junior year was mind boggling. I had the amazing opportunity to see First Wave perform at the national Keystone Conference in Orlando, Florida. In awe and inspired, at how poetry, music, storytelling, and hip-hop combined to tackle issues such as conformity and peer pressure. Not only did I want to be a part of the program, I wanted to graduate from the school that they attended as well. To be incorporated in a group of people with strong, creative minds will expose me to how other people view the world and give me experiences that I would not have the opportunity to have anywhere else.