Addie is a sophomore entering her second year on The Central Trend. She is looking forward to her second year of writing, and her first year as the Staff Photographer. She can’t believe that she’s already entering her second year of high school, and she’s excited to make new memories throughout this new school year. Some things that she enjoys doing is writing, listening to sad music, and sitting and watching the high school football games. She’s very excited for a new year of writing, and can’t wait to read the new stories.
Her favorite song: “My Tears Ricochet” by Taylor Swift
I don’t like math.
I don’t like how the numbers and letters jumble together in a mess that I can’t seem to understand. I don’t like how it takes me hours to figure out a problem that probably...
Sometime this past summer, seniors Dylan Choura, Henry Schwarze, and Jakob Terpstra loved taking trips to the local Forest Hills Foods for chocolate milk. Not just any chocolate milk: TruMoo. That’s...
With every day that passes by, I begin to miss you more and more.
I’m not entirely sure how I could miss you because I was never even truly able to know you. I never will know you.
Since my last...
Every Thanksgiving, my family tradition is to sit around the table and say three things we’re thankful for. I never have any idea how to narrow down everything and everyone I love and appreciate to just...
“But I shall never, not ever, not as long as I live—forget my magical visit to Wonderland.”
Three days ago, I would’ve said I was looking forward to the play ending more than anything. Now,...
Until recently, I don’t think I realized how truly affected I was by that one night this summer. I didn’t realize it until I was sitting in math class, and I started thinking about it. Immediately,...
Oct. 20:
Two hours until my birthday.
I’m not really looking forward to it. I spent this entire day close to tears, and it’s taking all of my energy to hold them back. Only two hours and twelve...
My friends are some of the most important people in my life, and I don’t tell them that enough. Instead of telling them to their faces, I wanted to use the art of song lyrics to show them how much they...
Today I realized that every single person I have ever known was once a stranger to me. Some stayed strangers, some became friends, and some went back to being strangers.
A few weeks ago, my friend and...
Although I’ve only attended two concerts, Conan Gray’s Found Heaven On Tour was the most incredible experience of my life. On Saturday, Sept. 21, my friends, sister, and I drove almost three hours...
I’m slowly watching every childhood thing from my neighborhood fade away.
The people from what I always called "the blue house" moved away. There’s no more running in circles around the house playing...
TW: this story mentions abusive relationships and talks about domestic violence
Although I had not read the book, I went into the theater on Sunday, knowing exactly what It Ends With Us was going to...
I feel guilty for looking forward to the end of the school year. I feel guilty because I enjoyed this school year so much more than the past few, but I’ve let the stress of school distract me from that.
I...
The other day, I was sitting in my room scrolling on Spotify because I had no idea what to write my review about. The reason I was looking through Spotify is because my favorite thing to review is music....
I’m struggling to write this. I don’t know why I’m struggling so much, but it’s already late, and I need to put something out.
Something that helps me when writing columns is listening to...
Six years ago, English teacher Ken George started something called FHC Inspires.
FHC Inspires is where 30 of the sophomore class's best TED Talk speakers put on one performance. The TED Talks are meant...
For the past few months, I’ve been obsessing over the song “blame’s on me” by Alexander Stewart. I had thought it was just a single until I opened Spotify the other day and saw that an album by...
Every day, my mind is flooded with questions.
I sit in class overwhelmed with so many thoughts and questions that it makes it impossible to pay attention to things I really should be paying attention...
For the past few years, senior Mikayla Bush has been writing a book.
Mikayla never really had the intention to publish any books. However, since her summer camp the summer before sophomore year, she...
Because I've been home a lot lately, I needed a fun show to watch while lying around my house. I was getting really tired of watching the same few shows repeatedly, so I decided to look for a new show...
There are many ways to interpret the word 'unwritten.' Some people think of the unwritten as the future. The future is unwritten; they don’t know how the story will end. For me, the unwritten is what's...
Senior Alayna Gschwind has loved the stage crew every single minute that she’s done it. Although she’s only done it for a year, she is so thankful for the time that she got to spend with the people...
Over the past few years, I’ve been listening to some of Benson Boone’s music. I hadn’t really done a lot of listening to him recently, but I was going through the stories on Instagram, and I saw...
With a lot of hugs and tears, my first musical in high school has officially come to an end. Since the play ended I had been looking forward to the musical, and now it’s over. I’m going to miss everyone...
For the second year in a row, Pine Ridge Elementary has decided to do their school-wide lip sync, and they hope to make it a tradition.
Pine Ridge principal Nathan Peltz decided to do the lip sync...
Before today, I hadn’t been to a Dairy Queen in a long time. I heard that they had a couple of new items for the season, so I figured why not try them? Even if Dairy Queen is pretty far away, I hoped...
The word "maybe" has been starting to take over my entire vocabulary. Maybe one day, maybe soon, maybe I’ll have time for this. Just maybe. I’m not entirely sure why, but it’s started to take control...
The other night I was sitting in my room and felt like I wanted to watch a Disney movie, so I decided to watch something on Disney Plus.
I opened Disney Plus and under the new releases category, I...
Tonight, March 7, FHC will host its annual Incoming Freshman Information Night.
Every year for around 15 years, the eighth graders have been coming to the high school to look around the building and...
I haven’t always felt like I belonged. And truthfully, nobody has. Recently, I’ve been starting to feel a little more of a sense of belonging.
A little over a year ago my family had to switch churches....
I’m not really a fan of Usher, and I don’t choose to listen to his music, but I’ve definitely heard some of his songs here and there. When I heard that he was going to be doing the halftime show,...
When I was younger, I loved to make wishes. I loved to blow out candles on my birthday. I loved wishing on the first star that I saw in the dark night sky, I loved making wishes at 11:11, and I loved wishing...
I love music. As a teenage girl, it's a cliche thing to love, but I still love it. There’s something about music that brings me peace and happiness. There’s something about music that makes me feel...
For the past six or seven years, Senior Cohen Murray has loved snowboarding. He has countless memories and stories from snowboarding and has been enjoying every minute of it.
“Every year we go up...
I’m really struggling to write this one because I want it to be perfect. I want to be able to find the perfect words to describe how theater impacts my life. I want to be able to find the perfect words...
I can’t seem to find the words to write about words.
There are 273,000 words in the English dictionary, but I can’t seem to form a sentence that's good enough to describe words.
Different words...
For a couple of days every week, some of the students at FHC don’t have sixth-hour class. After fifth hour, they leave the class, and then, they can walk right out the doors thanks to their hybrid classes....
The other day I was scrolling through Netflix unsure of what I wanted to watch. I was going to eat breakfast/lunch and obviously, I needed a show or movie to watch while I ate. I went to the Newly Added...
Lately, time has felt like it’s been going faster. All of my days have been blending into one. During the school week, I never know what day it is. Sometimes, on a tiresome Monday, it feels like a Thursday,...
Senior Dylan Babcock hasn’t always had a love for music. But now, he loves it more than ever.
In fifth grade, Dylan had to make the choice of what type of music class to do. He ended up choosing...
Two hundred billion trillion tiny balls of gas. You can see about 6,000 of them in your sky if you get far enough from the streetlights or lights from buildings and houses. Once you get far enough from...
A few months ago, my sister introduced me to a small artist named Chloe Ament. When I first started listening, I fell in love with her music and her voice. Chloe bases almost all of her music off of TV...
Dear yellow tulip,
Yellow tulips are bright, beaming flowers. They’ll always stand out in a flower field, and they’ll never be afraid to speak up. My specific yellow tulip never fails to add a smile...
