I stop to take a breath and my legs shake. I was on the third beam of three in my ropes course class at LCCC. Since I needed one more PE credit to graduate high school, I decided to take a week long ropes course class at the local college using the College Credit Plus Program that lets me take college classes for high school and college credit. This particular class was quite a workout. From climbing telephones poles and...

My plan to study spiders By Ashley Moen Going into freshman year, I felt like I had all the time in the world. College was a long ways off. Cliche as it is, my four years went by in the blink of an eye. I don’t feel like a Senior. I don’t feel like I’m about to go off to college. All my friends are going away and moving on with their lives and it doesn’t...

“You’re my true sister,” I smile as I hear these words. I am playing with Daisy Girl Scouts in the pool when I hear one of them tell me this, just before splashing me with water. The other girls repeat the sentence and I thank them warmly. I look over at the other Program Aides who are all playing in the deep end of the pool. Well, they aren’t playing, they are just talking amongst themselves. I smirk....

In elementary school I was a quiet kid who would read books. If you started talking to me, I would become loud and active. But I only socialized when approached. I never felt lonely. At scouting events I was much more open. In middle school, I was still a quiet kid who would read books. So when my homeroom teacher saw me at Winterfest at Camp Timberlane, she admits that she didn’t believe it was me. In class I...