South Korean transfer students integrate into CCHS community
May 22, 2012 • Kara Stevick, Staff Writer
Filed under CC Students Around The World, Features, Top Stories
Moving to a new home is always difficult, even if it is only temporarily. However, moving all the way to another county is an entirely different story. Senior David Lee and Freshman Soyoung Kim have both moved to the United States from South Korea. Both David and Soyoung came to continue their schooling... Read more »
Sydney, Australia
April 14, 2011 • Nina Holtz, Special Sections Editor
Filed under CC Students Around The World, Student Life
Junior Jay Mullins shyly keeps his head down as he strides in front of the USDHS library on the morning of August 23, 2010, the first day of school. “As I am walking past the library I looked up, and there are like two thousand kids standing in front of me. Looking out over the sea of people, I was... Read more »
Student recounts firsthand experience in Japan quake
April 14, 2011 • Katie Agner, Features Editor
Filed under CC Students Around The World, Features
One disastrous quake. two great aftershocks. Cecilia Mariscal, Cathedral Catholic junior, experienced one of the worst earthquakes in Japanese history – the magnitude 8.9 quake that occurred on March 11, 2011 and caused the terrible damage that is still ravaging the Japanese landscape and society. “I... Read more »
Milan, Italy
November 9, 2010 • Nina Holtz, Double-Truck Editor
Filed under CC Students Around The World, Student Life
Since the beginning of the school year, freshman Alex Zawitkowski has been asked to say the words, “California” and “spaghetti” hundreds of times. Why? People like to hear his Italian accent. Alex lived in San Diego for eleven years before moving to Milan, Italy in 2007. Growing up with an Italian... Read more »
Kyiv, Ukraine
July 23, 2010 • Ashley Elder, Retiring Editor In Chief
Filed under CC Students Around The World, Student Life
Having lived in both Eastern Europe and the Middle East, senior Olga (“Talia”) Volodymirovna Mazepa developed more respect for her Ukrainian heritage during her first ten years of life in Kyiv, Ukraine. Yet, even though she has lived in the United States for only three years and is not yet a citizen,... Read more »
Beirut, Lebanon
July 23, 2010 • Nina Holtz, Special Sections Editor
Filed under CC Students Around The World, Student Life
“I don’t forget my roots; it’s just the way I am,” said senior Anthony Baini. Anthony was born in Lebanon’s capital Beirut and lived in Nigeria from 1995 to 2006. During the summer before his freshman year, the Baini family moved to America from Africa. Baini’s dad grew up in Lebanon but... Read more »
Bangkok, Thailand
July 23, 2010 • Nina Holtz, Special Sections Editor
Filed under CC Students Around The World, Student Life
In the summer of 2007, junior Ashley Tangaroman moved here from Thailand, dleaving her house in the countryside, the busy, “polluted” downtown Bangkok, and the familiar languages of Thai, Lao and Mandarin. She even had to leave her parents. Ashley abandoned much of which she knew to come to... Read more »
Manchester, England
July 1, 2010 • Nina Holtz, Special Sections Editor
Filed under CC Students Around The World, Student Life
England - where cell phones are called mobiles, sweaters are termed jumpers, and cricket and netball replace baseball and basketball. The metropolitan city of Manchester, the hometown of bands like The Smiths and the ‘football’ team Manchester United, is located on the northwestern side of the... Read more »
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