Life at HUHS- Andy Childs

As the year continues to progress, seniors, like me, are beginning to hear back from a few of the colleges we have applied to. Recently, I personally heard back from Whitewater and am very happy to be accepted. Many of my friends have heard back from UW system schools as well, such as Platteville and UWM.

On another note, Student Council held its first blood drive! We hung up many signs around school and we signed up about 150 donors.  Remember… it can easily get you out of that one class you hate. I would guess that a large amount of our students give blood simply to cut class. I think the real motto for the blood drive should be “Save a life: skip class today.” Pretend you’re dizzy and get a free Coke! Though truthfully, it is a great cause and is crucial to save the lives of others – the most helpful way to avoid school.  At the end of the day, we collected 149 pints of blood in a short, five hour period. Our next blood drive will be January 21, 2015.

As time goes on through the year and students begin to regret taking difficult classes, I have recently found my enjoyment for art class increasing. All of my friends and family would suggest that I am not the type of person to enjoy an art class due to my lack of skill, but I think I’ve finally started to shine in art fundamentals with Mrs. Mohagen. I haven’t decided what I find more fun, creating things in class or coming up with different last names for our teacher. While we work, Noah Fleuchaus and I spend much of the class deciding other ways to use “hagen” in an interesting name combination. (Don’t worry we still work while talking) I believe the most popular example so far has been “Mrs. Brohagen”. Fortunately she is a good sport and only gives us unsatisfactory when we deserve it. (All of the projects)

The Season is Almost Over -- Carlie DeBack

Saturday November 1^st was the varsity conference meet for Girls Swimming and weeks before that day, I knew it was going to be a tough battle. I had a fire fueled in me to win Conference for the 9^th year in a row, and I know that my teammates did too. This fire grew brighter and bigger after out JV team lost by one point  the previous Tuesday. We have worked too hard and too long in practice to want anything less than a win. Conference was held at Oconomowoc YMCA and the stands where packed, everyone was anticipating an exciting meet, but that didn't matter. We came in determined to win, but yet we could not quite grasp a hold of victory. We lost to West bend West by 70 points, but came home with some new records for the boards. We may have lost, but the season is not over yet, at least for the 15 of us that are going on to sectional (Nov. 8) and hopefully onto State (Nov. 15). Wish us luck in Cedarburg!

Editor's Note: The Swim Team set three new records on their way to state.  Carlie will be swimming in 4 events at the state meet on November 15th.  She will be swimming in the 50m free, Medley relay, the 200m free relay, and the 400m free relay. 

APUSH Dance Offs -- Aaron Nytes

As the quarter comes to an end, we all already looking forward to summer. However, with the cold setting in, as it always does in Wisconsin, summer becomes the utopia as we shiver through the inevitably cold winter and we yearn for some sort of warmth. One of my favorite activities thus far that will continue to instill warmth in my heart even through the winter is closing in is the famous "APUSH Dance Offs". It is used to solve debates, end ties, or just to shame someone for not knowing some of the material. Although I have not had the honor to participate in one yet, you can bet I'll be ready when I am granted that honor. I will begin with the spectacular "Napoleon-Dynamite" dance which will render my opponent star struck and my spectators amazed making me winner by default. Oh how I look forward to that day... The children will remember that day onward as "the day Aaron reestablished himself as the all time dancing king". Of course, I may then have to then proceed to brainwash the class, as a memory of my dancing may be detrimental to my presidential aspirations. I guess we'll cross that bridge when we get there?

Editor's Postscript:  In the time that Aaron submitted his blog and publishing date, he did have a chance to participate in a dance off.  Unfortunately, he froze and forgot about his amazing "Napoleon Dynamite" routine. He relied on some poorly executed Michael Jackson moves and was defeated.