St. Robert CHS Student News
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun is a short 12-episode romantic comedy series concerning a female high school student called Chiyo Sakura. She falls in love with her classmate, Umetarou Nozaki, but a simple misunderstanding between them ends up with her becoming his personal manga assistant. Fun times ensue and more romantically troubled students join the story.
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From Laika Studios (creators of films such as Coraline and ParaNorman) comes yet another dark and delightfully quirky film, The Boxtrolls. Based on Alan Snow’s book, Here Be Monsters!, this movie takes place in an old English village, where Boxtrolls are believed to be man-eating, baby-stealing menaces to society. In truth, they are kind, lovable creatures who simply wish to live in harmony with the humans. Living amongst these box-wearing creatures is a human boy by the name of Eggs (Isaac Hempstead Wright) who was saved as a baby by a Boxtroll and raised to believe that he is one of them. Regardless of their peaceful nature, however, the humans want the Boxtrolls gone, and leading the extermination of their kind is the wicked Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley), a disgusting, if rather humourous, man who has an agenda of his own. It’s up to Eggs, his family of Boxtrolls, and his new-found, fiery spitfire of a friend, Winnie (Elle Fanning) to put a stop to Snatcher’s nefarious plans and to prove wrong the humans’ assumptions of Boxtrolls once and for all.
Hoozuki No Reitetsu (written and illustrated by Eguchi Natsumi) is a supernatural, dark-comedy anime, featuring afterlife from an oriental perspective. As opposed to the western imagination of hell as bloody and heaven as divine, the afterlife in Asia is depicted to be more moderate and relaxed.
Book: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Synopsis: Conor, a young boy haunted by a tragedy yet to happen, begins to be visited by a monster. But this is not the monster Conor has been expecting; this monster wants the truth.
On Monday, October 20th, there was a showdown in Motown. The St. Robert Rams junior girls basketball team hosted a good match-up against the Alexander Mackenzie Mustangs. The night started out rough as the Rams allowed back-to-back baskets in what seemed to be a momentum builder for the Mustangs. The Rams quickly regained their pace, though, as they started with a well-executed inbound play to score, followed by forced turnovers and steals. That wasn’t the end of it – the Rams demonstrated excellent all-around ability as they hammered the Mustangs in the post on both offense and defense. The Rams put on a show in the first half by wowing the crowd with three point plays and circus shots. It was as if they were executing plays straight from the San Antonio Spurs’ playbook! They led 24-14 going into halftime.
On the bright morning of October 17th, all of the students of St. Robert gathered on the soccer turf for the opening year mass. With beautiful songs and voices from the chaplaincy choir, we all prepared our hearts for the important message delivered by Father Felix. He reminded us of the challenges and new opportunities in the new school year, as well as the importance of community. No matter if you are a freshman or a senior, he gave every grade encouragement and advice for the new year. With this hopeful message delivered by Father Felix, we are all ready to face the beginning of a fresh year.