Stars, by Maggie Fox

                    Stars
Blades of grass tickle my ears
thoughts of him please my mind.
The growing darkness triggers my fears
wether opened or closed, my eyes
are closed.

A single star comes into view
I grab it with my fingers.
it floats away to my dismay
But some of it's brightness lingers.

I take the light and drink it in.
It fills me with a comforting
calm.
My brain travels back to his warm hands
when we would walk palm in palm.

Another star appears before me
but it flies again from my grasp.
Before I have time to reach it
once more
I feel a hand
on my shoulder and gasp.

"Come along dear,
you shouldn't be out.
Everyone else it inside, it's not polite
to run away
it's not polite to
hide."

"I'm not hiding, I'm
capturing stars
to go to a my friend who's a
boy.
I know he loves me,
it's really true.
He fills me with
endless joy."

A Midsummers Night's Dream

The theatre season at Crossroads College Prep is a greatly anticipated and hectic time. To start off the 2014-2015 season, the Crossroads Players will be putting on William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The eccentric comedy features forbidden lovers, fairies, a play within a play, a pompous court, and everything in between. We talked to Charlotte Sechrist who is playing Hermia, one of the lovers. Hermia is “really spunky” but also very adamant, she “isn’t willing to give up on her dreams, even if it means death.” If you are looking for a laugh, Midsummer is sure to please. Charlotte mentioned that the character that never fails to make her double over  is Bottom (played by Rebecca Jaffe, 9th grade). Bottom is the overly confident, but amateur actor, whose head is transformed into one of an ass, yet has no idea.

The show runs from November 6th-9th, with a special showing for the Crossroads students on November 12th at 1pm, and a free showing on November 5th. Admission is 5 dollars for students, and 7 dollars for adults. The show is directed by Shakespeare genius, Christopher Limber. The show will not disappoint, so “Come, sit down,  every mother's son, and rehearse your parts,” see A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Student Of The Week; Sammy Longsreth

   “Everyone says in their lifetime I want to travel the world, I am going to be part of that tiny minority that actually does it”

We interviewed Sammy longstreth on Thursday September 18th. Yes, the bagpipe playing Sammy Longstreth. Sammy is the GoPro obsessed, eccentric Stuco president who has entertained all of us at one point, and is pretty sure that captain jack sparrow is his spirit animal. Over the summer, Sammy traveled to Europe. He went to England to visit his ancestral homeland, and also to Scotland “to be with Scottish people.” He particularly notes consuming large amounts of haggis. For college, he wants to go to the University of Stirling in Stirling, Scotland. He believes that it is “an absolute waste of life to spend your time in one place. You should explore every corner of it, and the way to start that exploration is going to college in a foreign country.” He is thinking about majoring in international journalism. Sammy is a large part of the theatre here at Crossroads. It really wouldn’t be the same without him. When asked what his favorite production was he instantly answered Monty Python. We’re sure most of you have seen at least one of the Monty Python skits that Sammy directed, and if you reacted at all like we did, then you were laughing the entire time. To create the skit, all Sammy needed to do was “command people with one of [his] best friends.” The mastermind, Sammy, told us that his favorite part of the rehearsal process was “going from a bunch of actors in a room who have no idea what the play is” to a “well put together play with developed characters and actors who know what they’re doing.” To accomplish that goal the actors watched the Monty Python skits endlessly, while observing British people talk so they could perfect their accents. In the end, they “got to make a play that was about complete idiots and people loved it!” If you somehow you have yet to talk to Sammy Longstreth, you are truly missing out. Go and go quickly, because he is a senior and our school will soon be deprived of this hilarious mastermind. Who knows, he may even let you wear his GoPro or play his bagpipes