Words from the Wise

Focus on school. Seriously I was way too worried about my social life and instead I should've been worrying about getting my 64 percent in Anatomy and Physiology up in the last three weeks of school. Take it from someone who knows from experience, FOCUS ON SCHOOLWORK. Junior year is the hardest because really it is your "last" year of high school. Not to say that senior year is a going to be a breeze but senior year starts to get you ready for the real world. It's a practice test to set you up for adult life. Junior year is the most important college wise. You take standardized tests that colleges look at and they look at your grades up through your senior year. My grades haven't been so great this year and I don't want to blame it on anything but myself but my parents separated and divorced this year so I'm sure that that was part of the issue. My life got completely overturned on top of me so it makes sense that my school studies might have dropped. All I'm saying is just seriously focus on school. If there are things going on at home or with kids at school, dive into your schoolwork. Don't get caught up in other problems. It will only make you depressed and upset and then you come to find out that you're failing on top of it all. When that happened to me, it was almost too much for me to handle anymore. This has been the hardest year of my life with my parents divorcing, being in a bad relationship, having the courage to leave that person, finding someone who I fell in love with just to be let go again. I found someone else who filled that hole in my life and then he left. My best friend moved to Florida and now I'm losing him too. So again, I say, this has been the hardest year of my life and I urge you sophomores to just focus on you and your work. I spent way too many hours crying and moruning over people and relationships when I could've been studying for that test or working on those last few questions that I kind of halfway tried on. Please just do the best you can and ask for help if you need it.

Hudson Honors 2016

Most Interesting Part of This Class: When we read Beowulf
Least Favorite Part of This Class: GRAMMAR PACKETS
Hardest I Laughed in This Class: "Grammar is a never ending infomercial. You think it's over
                                                          and then it's like, But wait, there's More!"
Favorite Memory from This Class: When Jeffrey and Brody had a sword fight in the
                                                           classroom
Best Thing About Hudson as a Teacher: We can get her completely off topic but she somehow
                                                                     manages to get everything done on time
Thing Hudson Could do to Make This Class Better For Future Classes: Nothing. She's perfect.
                                                                                           And a vampire so ten points to Gryffindor.

Any Final Comments for Hudson: It's been a great year kid. Keep it up.

Yellow Submarine Murder Mystery

Okay so I read the prompt and of course, my morbid, cynical mind immediately thought, murder on the submarine. Sixteen kids and a teacher all on a sub, and someone gets brutally murdered. We have to figure out who did it. So our victim will be Hannah. Just for laughs since she's my best friend. (RUDE -Hannah) (Lol I love her...)
So we all get onto the sub and we go around and look at everything. Of course it isn't very large but we don't really need a lot of space for all of us. It was late when we got here so we eat dinner and then retire to our beds for a long night. When we wake up in the morning, it's very quiet. A lot of kids are already out of their bunks and looking for breakfast, I assume. I roll out of bed and see that Hannah's bunk is empty. It's not like her to get up late so I don't think anything of it and I proceed to the breakfast room. Everyone is sitting at the long table and talking quietly. I glance around and notice that Hannah isn't there. Maybe in the bathroom, I thought. I sit down and ask Jessica Garber, whom I'm sitting next to, "Have you seen Hannah this morning?" and she replied, "Someone killed her."

I stare at Jess in shock. I felt the tears welling up inside me and I couldn't hold it together. I started bawling and I asked again and again if she was serious. She told me she was and that if I wanted to know for sure, she was in the command center of the sub. I agreed to go and I followed her up there. I saw that they had placed a sheet over her and that was all I needed. I turned to Jess and I asked her who did it. She said that it was a unanimous vote that Hudson, our beloved teacher that had brought us on this amazing trip, had done it. I didn't think so but I could never be sure until three years later.

I visited Hannah's mom and dad. They had kind of turned her room into a place of peace for her friends. I visited often but this time I noticed something. Hudson had had class pictures taken outside the sub before we left. We had each received a photograph. I had long since lost mine in the move to college and so I never noticed it before. In the picture, there was a shadow next to Hannah. She was standing on the end of the front row and there was a dark smudge on the picture. I tried to wipe it away but the spot wouldn't budge.

There had been a ghost on the sub with us, all of those years ago and it had killed my best friend. One by one over the course of the next six months, my graduating class started to die in mysterious ways. The police labeled them homicides by a serial killer but it was a demon that killed them. Everyone else is dead. I'm the last one. I'll be gone soon so I needed to tell the truth about what I've learned. Please, if you read this, if I'm not already gone, don't come for me. It is my fate. I am to die at the hands of the Submarine Demon.