National Junior Honor Society has many new projects going on in the coming months. National Junior Honor Society is still selling the Hearts for Haiti in the lunch room during all lunches. They are fifty cents each and you can write a message on them and they will be put on the wall so the recipient of your message can see it. All proceeds go to help the Red Cross in Haiti. The goal is to raise five hundred dollars so go buy a heart today! There is also a Relay for Life on April 30^th at Johnson High school. For those of you who missed the meeting, National Junior Honor Society will be forming a team to participate in the twelve hour jog. Ask your National Junior Honor Society sponsors for more information. The run will be to support the American Cancer Society. All students are urged to participate. For those of you who are looking for service hours here at Lopez the Hunger Games party is looking for volunteers to help with set up and general assistance. This is a great opportunity to earn a few good hours here at school and if you have read the book it is even more fun. This is pretty much a general overview of NJHS events for more information contact your NJHS sponsors.

The UIL meet at Eisenhower was awesome!!! But it was also a little bit hectic. The bus driver took some insane route to get from Lopez to the competition. So it took about an hour to get there. When we arrived, we only had an hour to settle down before the first event started. I competed in seven events. There was an opening for spelling, so I volunteered to compete in that. After spelling, there was Maps Charts and Graphs, Math, Number Sense, then Calculator. Some one was disturbing me when I was taking the calculator test. He kept on coughing; constantly. After Calculator, I had a forty minute break to eat lunch. That went by very quickly. I ate pizza and some candy, and then played a few games of Speed. Next was Dictionary Skills. The test was relatively easy. All the answers on the test were basically on the same page in the dictionary. I didn’t do the whole entire test. I had a few questions left. My friends said that they finished the whole test. Science came next. Time passed really fast. I was so glad to get out of the library. We waited about forty-five minutes for the Awards Ceremony to start. I only placed in two events: Math and Number Sense. Unfortunately, Lopez got second place. Tejada got Sweepstakes. As usual, we beat Eisenhower. They are very poor in academics. But Tejada is very strong. This was the second time we got second place. They were ahead of us by about two hundred points. I hope we beat them in the Championship Meet!