FRIENDSHIP

Coming to this school was a tough decision for me. I don’t know if I said this or not but I came from public school. I was never in catholic school so it was a little different coming here. The scariest part was that I knew absolutely no one coming to this school. None of my friends came to this school, I thought I was all alone. Over the summer I got a call and letter from my big sister Caitlyn, she made a difference when I came to UC. I didn’t feel alone anymore and she’s assured me that everything was going to be ok. When I called her with questions we talked for an hour. (Hopefully you will have a big sister like her) This school taught me something about friendship and it is that you find out who your true friends are. I had so many friends in my old school and I only talk to two of them now. Those people who I don’t talk to made me realize that they were never my real friends. I know that the friends I made this year will stick with me. I have met some people who have changed my life forever. One girl who I never thought I would be friends with ended up being one of my closer friends, another girl I met on the bus and we wound up sharing our life stories with each other ~ we became best friends. A lot of the people I’m friends with now, I was never friends with in the beginning. I love my new friends and I know 20 years from now I won’t have to wait for a high school reunion to see them again, because they will always be there for me. ( oh by the way I came from Woodbridge middle school!)

Great Adventure

Today we finished early in math so our teacher talked to us about the great adventure trip. I’m really excited because I haven’t been on a class trip since 5th grade! She explained to us how they just give us our tickets and let us go. We have so much freedom, it feels nice. All my friends and I have started to talk about what rides to go on. I am so scared of roller coasters. Kingda Ka scares me so much. If any of you have ever ridden that coaster, comment me, let me know about it. I have a feeling one of my friends is going to drag me on but I’m going to freak out! The superman ride at great adventure was designed by my great uncle! 16 days left of school. I can’t believe I’m going to be a sophomore next year. Time fly’s by so quick! Enjoy the rest of your school year. =)

<--Kingda Ka (incase you didnt know)

Service Hours

Over the course of the year, all students have to have service hours for their religion classes. For the freshman, you need 6 hours per semester, 12 in all. You can do anything that is helping your community or church. Some people don’t like doing service hours, and others think that it is a good thing to help others. Some examples of service hours would be babysitting, helping a neighbor, coaching or helping out a sports team, etc.

Personally, I like doing service hours. Some of the things I have chosen to do have helped me figure out what kind of job I would like to pursue when I’m older. What I have figured out so far is that I enjoy working with people. Because of this, I have volunteered at the Center for Hope Hospice in Scotch Plains. Center for Hope Hospice is a place where you go when you are very sick and are at the last stage of your life. The point is to die with dignity. Hospice can go into homes, but if the patient has no one to take care of them, they go to a Hopsice house. In Scotch Plains, Peggy’s house, the place the patients stay, can hold 30 patients. The patients have total control over what they would like to do and have a lot of freedom. I have had 4 ½ hours so far and I love it. I have had a training session and last week, officially started my work. There are a lot of different things you can do to help out there. Volunteering at Hospice means more to me than just getting hours; I enjoy helping out people and feeling like I made someone’s day better or easier.

SCHOOL ENERGY

Our schools energy has really risen this past month. The entire freshman class is excited about the great adventure trip. I think it will be a lot of fun to be with all my friends at Great adventure. I’m not a huge fan of rollercoaster’s but my friends are going to drag me on, that’ll be fun. On another note softball has been really great. My name was in the Star Ledger! I couldn’t believe it. It says “Union Catholic has been paced by Katie Zolli, Kate Williamson, Angela Sessa, and Erin Farley. I was amazed. With that being said yesterday I tried on a varsity jacket. It was like that moment every athlete waits for. I couldn’t wait to put it on and when it was on I realized it’s heavy. The jackets feel really weird, but I’m going to have to get use to it. Besides excitement a lot of the students are nervous. Finals are only a few weeks away. I hope to be exempt from a lot of my finals but I know I’m going to have to take at least 3 or 4 of them. I’ve had a lot of school work so I have no time to even think about finals. I have this huge poetry book project due Friday. It’s worth a double test grade! I’m almost done but I want it to be very creative. Wish me luck! =)

Drama

As everyone knows high school is filled with fun times, close friendships, and drama. Everyone has had drama in their lives and like all high schools it happens. As summer is nearing everyone is nervous about becoming a sophomore. All the upperclassmen have warned us that Drama becomes your middle name! Here at UC everyone tries to stay out of it but like all schools you may get pulled in. As far as I'm concerned, the other freshman blogger and I really try to stay out of all the drama. If you have ever seen the movie mean girls, you probably think wow high school is scary. High school is NOTHING like the movies. Drama does happen but if you stay out of it and just stick with the people you trust then you will be fine. Word of advice: When coming to UC make friends, and don't talk about people. Because when you go to high school reunions do you really want to remember the good times or the bad?

And if you may be coming to UC all by yourself and our scared you'll have no friends...dont be! I came here knowing anyone and I have met some friends who have changed my life!

Honor Roll Breakfast

This morning was the honors breakfast for students who made 1st and 2nd honor roll for the 3rd Marking Period. I made 1st honors in the 3rd mp, and 2nd in the first and second marking periods. It definately felt like there were a lot more people who made honor roll this time around then the first two. Good job to everyone!

Today, the bloggers learned how to put videos and pictures onto our blogs, so be expecting a new video coming soon!

FRIENDSHIP

Hey Everyone.

A lot of stuff has happened in the past few weeks. All the sports teams are doing very well. Yesterday, the golf team had a match vs. both Roselle and Oratory Prep. We beat Roselle, which was the first win of the season. We were all very excited.

People have told me on many occasions that you will go through different groups of friends your 4 years of high school. This I have known to be true. I love the friends I hang out with inside and outside of this building. Lately, I have made a few more friends that I never really took it upon myself to say hi to before, only because I never really knew them. In the past few weeks, I have grown a few special friendships that I wouldn’t trade for anything, while not losing the friendships I already had. I have never stayed only one group of friends, being mixed in with so many different groups due to different activities. I never thought I would make such good friendships with kids from my golf team, or people I don’ have any classes with, since I didn’t know any of them to start from. Making friends is hard at first, but you get the hang of it. I can honestly say I was not as open to friends in the beginning of the year as I could have been, due to feeling insecure and not knowing who I wanted to be in high school. I still don’t, but am much more open to people now. Friends make your high school years the best, of that I am sure