St. Robert CHS Student News
Sherry Shu (10) | STAFF REPORTER
Walking down the St. Robert hallway,
I told myself to smile.
To shout, to comfort, to hug. To give a friendly “hello!” or a “how’s it going?” To tell that one embarrassing story I’ve been keeping in since grade 5, and to goof off as possible with a friend no matter how many people are raising their eyebrows. To pin the corners of my mouth towards the heavens, no matter how much I may feel broken inside.
Isabella Pan (9) | STAFF REPORTER
Happiness; just saying this word causes a strange phenomenon. You think of things greater than yourself, of this idea that’s too broad and wild to imagine. It is probably the last thing you would think of when you hear the word “fear”, but it’s really the lack there of that’s truly scary.
Raymond Wang(9) | STAFF REPORTER
It is Sunday, October 20, at 10:27. A student named Raymond sits at his kitchen table, pondering what he should write about for his Axiom newspaper. After thinking for a while, he decides to write about Halloween and why he loves to go trick or treating. When he goes onto the spreadsheet to submit his topic, he reads other peoples’ topics and realizes that many of the people have also chosen to write about Halloween.
Arthur Ng (11) | STAFF REPORTER
Feet skipping along the road
Feet skipping upon those bloody stones
While screams are in the air,
Raymond Wang (9) | STAFF REPORTER
A bad quality that I believe can be a good quality is being a perfectionist. According to the Oxford Dictionary, a perfectionist “A person who refuses to accept any standard short of perfection.” People who are perfectionists can not stand being worse than perfect, which can be a bad quality as well as a good one. A person who refuses to accept any standard short of perfection.
Doris Hua (10) | STAFF REPORTER
Lord Byron was a highly influential European writer in the late 18th and early 19th century. His satirical and often rebellious pieces caught the eye of the entirety of Europe, his personality and prose charming all. He is well-known to be a literary revolutionary in the Greece War of Independence from Turkey and it is suggested that rebellion movements across Europe looked to his works as a spearhead. Although his name does sound quite fancy, his time was not spent at tea parties and whatever else a Lord does with his spare time. Instead, his personal life was notoriously full of aristocratic scandals, debt, alcohol, and lots and lots of drugs, making the coined title “Bad Boy of the 19th Century” definitely well earned.
Arthur Ng (11) | STAFF REPORTER
Crack, crackle, and crunch goes the leaves that I am walking on,
The forest whispers secrets, new and old, time changing from green to gold.
Clare Wu (9) | STAFF REPORTER
Shoulders back, chin up.
“It’s very nice to meet you!” I smile a plastic smile, feeling my face contort unnaturally. I’m trying, really I am, but I can’t live up to society’s standards. My reflection glares back at me, taunting me for everything I’m not. Not sophisticated. Not infinitely cheerful. Not good enough.
Isabella Pan (9) | STAFF REPORTER
To possess a key that could soar through time and space, across galaxies and perhaps even alternate dimensions would be a dream come true. If I were to receive a key that can open any door and gateway, literal or metaphorical, the first place I would travel to would be my childhood.
Sherry Shu (10) | STAFF REPORTER
I’m in the midst of Barcelona, Spain; taking in the crisp sea breeze and the majestic trees swaying above me.