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SADD works to involve students at after prom

SADD club will have various activities at after prom this year.

Fatal Vision Obstacle Course

-Students will be able to drive a course wearing fatal vision goggles.

“Cruisin’ Cooler” Course

-An indoor version of the above activity.

Got Control?

-Students will be able to drive a remote control car while wearing fatal vision goggles.

Intoxiclock

-Students will be able to interact with a device that will show them the length of time the body is effected by alcohol.

From India with love

Story, photos and captions by Darian Eswine, News co-editor.

The story of Thomas Kunnath

I was born in the backward districts of Kerala. My parents were poor farmers and I was one of six children. Because we were poor, I would work from 7 or 8 in the morning to very late at night; out in the farm mainly plowing oxen. I would work in the field from8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and then quickly bathe in the river, then go to school. When I got home from school I would go back to work. I was an ordinary boy with average intelligence. Somehow I got a promotion to the next grade and the next. One day an American missionary was in the neighborhood and he stayed for a while. He used to give milk to poor children living near. I received some one day. After that I would wait in half clad dress with a pot, waiting fro his milk. From then on whenever I found a white-skinned person, it would remind me of milk. Still even after 50 years, milk is the most delicious ting. Then I started dreaming. I kept a dream in my heart that one day I would go to the U.S. It was an impossible dream. Time went on. I had a desire to learn English. In my high school education I passed with the lowest grade, My dream haunted me. From high school, I went on to college study and I miserably failed. I received a zero percent math. I passed with minimum marks for higher studies. And I studied for my bachelor’s degree in Physics. The moment I joined for higher studies I made the decision that I would pass with a high mark. All of my fellow students were superior in every way. I was the most unnoticed and insignificant guy in the class. I worked hard and tried my best to improve my English. I completed my bachelor’s degree in three years and I passed my exam with the highest mark in Physics; a 100 percent in math. I was the first student in the history of the school to receive that mark. I worked at a government job for four years and I did not enjoy it. I was bored. I came back home after leaving my job and met my wife. We had an arranged marriage. Lizzie is my wife. We had three daughters; Nitza, Dawna, and Janeana. One day, American missionaries cam to visit Kerala. I met two of them, Tom Franklin and Amy Ruff. They let me travel with them. I interpreted their talks to their satisfaction. These were the most joyous days of my life, to be with Americans. Every year they came to Kerala. In 2005, Tom and Amy asked me to visit the U.S. There are no words to describe how I felt. I didn’t know how to respond. I thought it was a practical joke, but they meant it. Everything went smoothly with my passport and visa. I sat in the airplane with tears in my eyes. It was the unbelievable fulfillment of my impossible dream. One morning I landed in New York, confounded. Tom, Amy, Donna; all of my American friends were there to welcome me to America. Each moment in the U.S. was considered a fulfillment of my long desired wild dream. The moral of my life story is if you keep a dream alive in your heart and for the fulfillment of it, you can fulfill it no matter how big that dream is.[slideshow]

Snow days change school schedule

Originally FC had a professional development day Tuesday, Jan. 18. However, with all of the recent snow days students will have school on Tuesday. They are still out Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. day.
 Students will also be having school February 21 on President’s Day and on May 6, Oaks Day. Principal Louie Jensen said these built in make-up days tremendously help. There are still five make-up days built on at the end of the year before commencement.
 “Two years ago seniors had to come back to school after graduation to make-up days and we were required to hold their diploma until the last day of school,” said Jensen.
 State law states that students have to go to school 180 days, no matter how many snow days have to be made up. Right now the last day for school is scheduled for May 26.
 “If there are more snow days we will keep going to school,” said Jensen.