In the first semester, some of the biggest things I did were joining cross country, being in the Eurydice play and participating in the Halloween food drive.
In cross country, we had a meet once every Saturday where my fellow runners and I would run for two or three miles against other school. During the first meet, however, I was the only one to show. Also, I seemed to be the first high-schooler from CES to run that particular run, which I thought was pretty cool.
In Eurydice, I played as the Loud Stone, which was one of three stones that lived in the Underworld. The other ones were the Big Stone and the Little Stone. During the rehersals, we came up with a backstory for Little Stone and Loud Stone, which involved Loud being Little's servant in life. Little then poisoned Loud when she was dying of a sickness so that Loud would have to serve her in the afterlife for all eternity. This was never mentioned in the play, but only hinted at with me being at Little's side at all times, and even sometimes forcefully pushed down so Little could assert her dominance over me. And, in case you were wondering, Little Stone was played by Alex Vining. I got a lot of praise in the play for my performance, for which I'm grateful. It was overall a fun play to be in, and I'm excited for Beauty in the Beast this March, in which I'll be playing as Mousier D'Arque.
The last big event I was in first semester was the Halloween food drive held by Key Club. I was glad that it wasn't exclusively for Key Club because I was hoping to join. And, I did. It was pretty much driving around in a neighborhood until 8 PM, but it was still fun nonetheless. I dressed up as Godzilla, my favorite movie character ever, and actually got a conversation out of it. Some members of the team that I was with happened to be into Godzilla, and we got to talk about the movies he had and the monsters he fought. It was definitely a fun chat, but there were other things that happened during the drive. For example, when we visited a group of kids, they took my friend's bow and arrow and threatened us with it. Thankfully it didn't end with anyone getting hut, but it did seem kind of rude of them in my opinion. Then there was another moment when we visited an old man's house, and when we were asked what school we were getting food for, but since neither of us honestly knew, he got suspicious. Ignoring those moments, we got plenty of canned goods in the end, and I'm happy to know that we got to help some people get the food they needed.
Overall, the first semester had its fun moments and its dull moments. I hope for the best for next semester.
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