World best teacher

Ms. Yocum teaches Freshmen English, journalism, web design, photography, has a freshman orientation class and still finds the time to help the Drama department become a better class. Ms. Yocum is a great teacher who dedicates her time toward her students, shows that she loves her job even though sometimes there are hard days, but overall every day she tries to teach us life lessons that, telling us that we have to go to the right path to achieve goals in our lives.

Delilah was asked what she would like to say to Ms. Yocum and she said, “I would like to tell her that it takes a lot of hard work and dedication and we are all so proud of her for taking on the responsibility of this class. She's shaped us all into the person we are today and we are all like family because of her. She is hard on us but we all know it’s because she believes that we can do amazing things. And we are all glad to return for another year of drama next year with her”.

Ms. Yocum was new to East Nicolaus four years ago and she was told she was responsible for the Drama class, she accepted, she started form the bottom and worked to the top. Every year she changes the setting making you go back in time, makes you feel like you were part of the last century. Not only has she helped drama, but she has helped the journalism class to achieve, thanks to Ms. Yocum the Journalism class got to be recognized in the Appeal democrat newspaper. Isabella McNicol says, “She is always willing to help people, she wrote me a really sweet letter of recommendation”. With the help of Ms. Yocum she made students become actors, helped to get them out of their shells.

 The whole drama class would like to thank you for your time and dedication, thank you for not giving up on us, we love you Ms. Yocum!

The Drama troop takes a trip to Ashland Oregon

On May 11, the East Nicolaus drama troop took another exciting trip to Ashland Oregon to again celebrate the Shakespeare festival.  The students were excited to go to this trip, even if they had to be at school before 6am in the morning. Ms. Yocum the organizer of this great event  helped to make this happen, and with the help of other community members the drama troop were ready to go in the school vans.

“I thought it was a good bonding experience for the drama troop and it gave us a vibe of how drama is once were out of High school,” says Delilah Yang.

The Drama students had a fun trip going to Oregon, they got to have fun playing games, talk during the car ride, and they got to make stops in the way admiring the nature of Oregon. The students arrived just before a musical  they were thrilled to see what the actors were going to perform.  The students got to eat at a pizza place and explore the city of Ashland, seeing the different tourist shops.

Yang talks about the other performance, “They were both great plays and made everyone laugh, but my favorite would have been the Taming of the Shrew because the set was lovely and amazing, the costumes were pretty, cute and modern”.

The drama saw another performance named The Taming of the Shrew, this play was more modernized, and this play was actually modernized to normal English. The next day the students got to go to work shops, they got a tour of the stage that was being set up for the evening play; they got to know the history for the Shakespeare festival. “I really enjoyed looking at the costumes being designed, and I think it’s amazing how the costume designers make the costumes from scratch,” Carlena Granados said. With the help of Mrs. Wallace the students got the chance to go to where they make the costumes for the characters, and got to see how they were designed.

Solomani Namonasimalua was asked what he enjoyed most of the plays and he said, “I think the Oregon trip was fun and I think I learned more about how Shakespeare is in everything in our media and what we watch in romantic comedies and dramas and soap operas because it's like he made the original version of all of them”.

Senior Sneak

The Disneyland trip is coming fast for the seniors; they only have hours to pack. Seniors are leaving at 4am in the morning and will not return till the afternoon of Friday; whoever does not make it before 3:45am they are being left behind. After attending four years of high school the students finally get their reward by having the opportunity to go to Disneyland, and Magic Mountain. Disneyland shows how hard work pays off, because they are given a midnight showing for the graduating class of 2013.

Andreha Neidhart was asked what she was more excited about and she said, “Not going to school and of course going to Disneyland”.

They have been planning senior sneak for the whole year, they have had meetings, talked about the rules, and also talked about how they should behave to represent well our school. The seniors had to have passing grades, have a good attendance to be able to attend this trip.

Adam Driver was asked what he needed for Senior Sneak and he stated, “Snacks and music because it’s going to be a long bus drive”.

Seniors will be very exhausted because they will not have many hours of sleep but they will try to regain their sleep in the bus. They will be heading home at around 7am in the morning, and will not arrive until the afternoon. This senior trip would not have happened without the help of the senior advisers, Mr. Wolcott, and Ms. Yee.

"I'm excited to be able to have a good, fun day with my friends in Disneyland," Daniel Torrecampo said.