Griffith High School - Reflector Yearbook (Griffith, IN)

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10 I can ' t believe It ' s Monday The 8 a.m. bell echoed through the empty halls. She scurried to her first hour class wondering how she would make it through the day. She had been awake only two hours , and already had missed her bus, done battle with a jammed locker and slipped on a twinkie wrapper on the back stairs. She braced herself at the thought of what else could happen on such a day. The teacher entered the room. Hola class! he exclaimed, Como estan? She burrowed deeper into her seat, remembering how she detested foreign languages. Her next class was algebra. 2x + 3=47 said the teacher. 22 she confidently said, recalling that math was her favorite subject. She left behind her problems of logarithms to pick up the study of Rembrandt and Picasso. She anticipated art class, because drawing and painting were her specialties. Lunch time had finally arrived. With only 30 minutes to spare, she jumped into her car and zoomed down the street. She sat in McDonalds dining room inhaling a Big Mac with cheese, while simultaneously doing her homework. As she gobbled down her last french fry she realized she had only three minutes to whiz back down Cline, run the 4-way stops at Raymond and Pine and find a spot in the school parking lot. But despite her best efforts, she arrived 10 minutes late for class, therefore receiving her first tardy. Hearing a lecture and watching a movie weren ' t the most exciting things as fourth and fifth hour crawled by slowly. Then it was sixth hour and time for english. She zipped to class, hoping it would pass by quickly, but to her dismay it didn ' t. She scribbled five pages of notes and discovered that she had to write a 10-page term paper by next week. The first Monday had ended, as she left the building with thoughts of the year ahead. Monday mixup. Needing advice, junior Kip Eley consults the right person, as he asks counselor, Mrs. Janeet Howell, for assistance in correcting his schedule. Seeing is not always believing. Junior Suzanne Morgan is unable to grasp the fact that school has begun as she dreams of other things she could be doing.

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The bus. To some the bus is regarded as a four-wheeled vehicle with many seats. To these students the bus is the only way of getting to and from school. While some travel to school in buses or cars, other such as junior Tom Schmidt and sophomore Ken Gilbert resort to the oldest transportation known — walking. 9

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Monday dreamer. Although the weekend is over, junior Freddy Sanchez daydreams, recalling the events of the past two days, instead of taking Algebra 3-4 notes. Biology Basics. Mr. William Stamos, Biology teacher, reviews his lessons is preparation for the oncoming school year. Mr. Stamos was the only new faculty member 11