Lights, Camera…Activism!

It’s now been three weeks since we left New Orleans and I’m still wishing we could go back. I know that I’ve taken away a lot from this experience. Even my mom said that I seemed to have returned a different person: more confident, with more of a “no-nonsense” attitude. In other news I had about a one week to breathe and then the AP exams started in full swing. I had to take a total of FIVE exams and so I spent the majority of the past two weeks at St. Vianney Church, the main testing location. Instead of going to classes I took the five exams on five separate days. They average from two to three hours. On the days that I didn’t have any exam I would be in class trying to study for the upcoming exam any chance I could. As I was also an intern with the middle school production of “Dear Edwina, Jr.” at the time of the exams I was trying to balance studying and helping out with the show. I had a blast working with the middle school drama program for the third year in a row and I got to know a lot of cool and extremely talented 6th, 7th and 8th graders. But now that the exams and the show are done I can completely turn my focus to the movie that we must finish in two weeks. As a member of the NOCCA team I can say that I’m not too stressed about finishing the movie on time because we really took advantage of the multitude of time that we had at NOCCA while we were down in New Orleans. And as the school year begins to wind down with a lot of lasts (last middle school show I interned with, last chorus concert of my siblings, etc.) I find myself reminiscing a lot about the many things that I was able to do in my high school career. The trip to New Orleans will definitely be one high school experience I will never forget and carry with me always. — Meret