Bloomington High School South, The Gothic, 2014, Page 9

Description:	not inOn August 1 2, AP Biology students under teacher KirstinMilks performed a Bubble Gum Lab, in which studentsmeasured the size of bubbles blown after changingindependent variables, such as gum temperature oramount of gum chewed. It was, as senior AlexanderHickman put it, bubblicious.JAP[L]AN^As Bloomington Souths Solar Bike Club learned thissummer, sometimes you just cant prepare for everything.We have a problem. The girlsbike...its unrideable. Un. Rideable.Dead silence. The BloomingtonSouth Solar Bike team had just flown6,000 miles to Akita, Japan, for theannual World Solar Rally only to findout they cant race? The club sponsor,Ms. Cindy Kvale, sighed.The front fork is splintered.The team went to work the nextday, borrowing a fork - the frontsection of a bicycle holding the tire inplace - from a competing team torepair their bike. Everyone sighed:crisis averted.Averted, that is, until the daybefore the race.Both bikes are unrideable. Thebatteries are completely broken.Everyone groaned. Crisis back on.As the team had quickly figuredout, life doesnt always go as planned.But after furiously patching up the bikesthe day before the race, they stillmanaged to finish in fourth andseventh, pretty respectable places forthe only out-of-country competitors.It was stressful, admitted seniorAddison Elkins. The early disastersmade for some sleepless nights, but thetrip was awesome and our bikes didastonishingly well.In spite of the earlyforeshadowing, the rest of their 2-weekstay in Japan went exactly accordingto plan. Along with hiking up MountFuji — one of the hardest things ever,according to senior Isabel Cullather— the group visited the Hiroshimamonument, rode the famed Japanesebullet trains, and enjoyed the nativefare — maybe, confessed seniorImogen Todd, slightly too often.We had breakfast, secondbreakfast, elevensies, lunch, snacks,and dinner, she said with a smile.We were like Hobbits. We just ateconstantly.Despite early setbacks, latenights, and cataclysmic bike disasters,the members of the club kept their witsabout them and enjoyed the trip. Infact, as Elkins boasts, It was the besttrip Ive been on with Solar Bike.-JAMES TANFORD-ibe th-our seniors aescnoe me moschangeThe pizza has becometougher to chew. Its finefor me, but not for peoplewith weak teeth.— senior Samuel AskrenI cant get as manycookies now. They arentfree anymore.senior Zachary RihmTOTAL CAFETERIA SCORE: -2I enjoy the new saladbar. Its good for theays when I buy lunch.— senior AndersenLeggioThe new Juicy-Juiceboxes [are a problem].They are preschoolsized.— senior Allison Perry
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