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Tupelo High School Top 5 places to eat R & B/ Hip Hop Alternative/ Da Baby Indie Pyros is a great place to eat. I love Megan Thee Stallion Billie Eilish customizing my pizza just how I NBA Youngboy Lana Del Rey like it. I enjoy it just the way I want yearbook Lil Baby Cage the Elephant it. yearbook Roddy Ricch Trippe Redd Khaoula Kamal (11) Top 5 Juice Wrld I'm a big fan of Connies onion rings as well as their breakfast. Like Gospel blueberry donuts and their famous Kanye chicken and biscuits. Pop/Rock Davis Bouchillion (12) Country Lauren Daigle Academics are very important to students at Lizzo Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Hillsong United THS, however, weve found that high school Justin Bieber Cyrus Tye Tribbett Because I love how fast Mt. Fuji is, is about more than just books and learning. Harry Styles Dan + Shay Lecrae and I like how they make it in front Here we take a minute to jot down some BTS of you. They have good sushi and Luke Combs chicken fried rice. of the top 5 things that THS students have Summer Walker Blake Shelton Bryson Wilson (12) Daelyn Patton (9) shows off Annaka Shumpert (12) shows 5 done, worn, eaten, talked about and the MOP move in tik to off the UWU_KAJ Dance. Kacy Musgraves viewed this school Thought you could never year. In 20 years we get loose Crave has a really good skillet may or may not cookie and a good atmosphere. remember the speaking in Allie Grace Winter (11) Pythagorean Theorem, memes memes but we ll definitely be memes When life doesnt talking about some of seem to be fair or I like sonic because it's a cool going the way we place to hang out with my friends the items on this page think it should, this and I like eating their mozzarella at our reunions. Braxton Bishop (10) shows Jake Weir (11) shows off John Michael Caldwell (12) meme highlights the sticks because they are good and off the Deuces Dance. the Relationship Dance. shows off the Renegade predictable response Dance. of giving up and cheap. Ight Imma Head Out going home. Johnny Tynes (11) The ever changing Social Media landscape jumped into the short-film based TikTok app this year. TikTok is a video sharing app for short, fun videos. Many OK Boomer became a Ok Boomer an hour has been spent this year surfing the platform and for some brave souls rallying cry for millenials putting their own content out onto the site. Many of the famous dances and around the world to call out or dismiss what challenges made the rounds at THS. they considered to be close-minded opinions associated with the baby boomer generation and older people. view the trends (Dictionary.com). In November, Disney+ On January 26, 2020 LA Lakers released The basketball star Kobe Bryant and his 13 Crocs/Uggs Mandalorian. The year-old daughter, Gigi were killed newsworthynewsworthy THS students pride themselves on being knowledgeable about the world break-out star of this Two styles that have been along with 7 other people when the around them. Here are a few of the stories weve been talking about this year. show was Baby Yoda considered to be both trendy helecopter they were riding in (not the real name). and ugly in turn throughout crashed on the way to a youth Suddenly, Baby Yoda LONG Eye lashes the past decade, Crocs and basketball league game. Bryant was The Coronavirus: The Impeachment Baby Yoda memes were everywhere. Uggs made a comback. What a colorful character who was not Trends for girls varied this year. A virus from Asia, the was new is the line of Uggs for without controversy. However, of Donald Trump: Loooong eyelashes and coronavirus quickly became Men that were released this year. many say that he was among the The House voted to impeach Me Explaing wigs made an a pandemic event and even the President, but the senate greatest to play the game of Me Explaining threatened the 2020 did not convict him of the appearance as did the basketball. Yellow #8 and purple memes pop up every Summer Olympics. VSCO girl trend. The VSCO #24 jerseys and cries of KOBE as charges of corruption. few years and are balls fly across the room permeated #COVID19 trend started as a photo #impeachmenthearings useful in telling stories the THS campus this spring. editing app and is about life and struggles. caharacterized by the use of In 2019, nutritional tea shops sprang up scrunchies, around Tupelo. During this school year, no Vaping Deaths: Mass Shootings in less than 6 could be found around Tupelo. Australian Wildfires: Once considered a safer Cat vs. Lady memes took metal straws, However, students who were spending Burning almost 90% of Texas and Ohio: alternative to smoking, vaping Two mass shootings over many social media hydroflasks $5-8 for a beverage found other ways to be Australia, these wildfires made the news as teens and occurred within just a few feeds for several months. with stickers thrifty. Several restaurants developed a 4 for Kobe & brought attention to the adults began to experience days of each other in August These memes 4 menu. Students could get a full meal for health problems and even and chacos issue of climate change. of 2019. #Enoughisenough highlighted struggles only $4. deaths as a result of vaping. and lip gloss. and conflict in a VSCO Girls Gigi #koalas #stopthevaping #sksksk $8 Teas and 4 for $4 humorous manner. Cat vs. Lady MEME IMAGES FROM KAPWING.COM 16 17 Top 5 places to eat R & B/ Hip Hop Alternative/ Da Baby Indie Pyros is a great place to eat. I love Megan Thee Stallion Billie Eilish customizing my pizza just how I NBA Youngboy Lana Del Rey like it. I enjoy it just the way I want yearbook Lil Baby Cage the Elephant it. yearbook Roddy Ricch Trippe Redd Khaoula Kamal (11) Top 5 Juice Wrld I'm a big fan of Connies onion rings as well as their breakfast. Like Gospel blueberry donuts and their famous Kanye chicken and biscuits. Pop/Rock Davis Bouchillion (12) Country Lauren Daigle Academics are very important to students at Lizzo Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Hillsong United THS, however, weve found that high school Justin Bieber Cyrus Tye Tribbett Because I love how fast Mt. Fuji is, is about more than just books and learning. Harry Styles Dan + Shay Lecrae and I like how they make it in front Here we take a minute to jot down some BTS of you. They have good sushi and Luke Combs chicken fried rice. of the top 5 things that THS students have Summer Walker Blake Shelton Bryson Wilson (12) Daelyn Patton (9) shows off Annaka Shumpert (12) shows 5 done, worn, eaten, talked about and the MOP move in tik to off the UWU_KAJ Dance. Kacy Musgraves viewed this school Thought you could never year. In 20 years we get loose Crave has a really good skillet may or may not cookie and a good atmosphere. remember the speaking in Allie Grace Winter (11) Pythagorean Theorem, memes memes but we ll definitely be memes When life doesnt talking about some of seem to be fair or I like sonic because it's a cool going the way we place to hang out with my friends the items on this page think it should, this and I like eating their mozzarella at our reunions. Braxton Bishop (10) shows Jake Weir (11) shows off John Michael Caldwell (12) meme highlights the sticks because they are good and off the Deuces Dance. the Relationship Dance. shows off the Renegade predictable response Dance. of giving up and cheap. Ight Imma Head Out going home. Johnny Tynes (11) The ever changing Social Media landscape jumped into the short-film based TikTok app this year. TikTok is a video sharing app for short, fun videos. Many OK Boomer became a Ok Boomer an hour has been spent this year surfing the platform and for some brave souls rallying cry for millenials putting their own content out onto the site. Many of the famous dances and around the world to call out or dismiss what challenges made the rounds at THS. they considered to be close-minded opinions associated with the baby boomer generation and older people. view the trends (Dictionary.com). In November, Disney+ On January 26, 2020 LA Lakers released The basketball star Kobe Bryant and his 13 Crocs/Uggs Mandalorian. The year-old daughter, Gigi were killed newsworthynewsworthy THS students pride themselves on being knowledgeable about the world break-out star of this Two styles that have been along with 7 other people when the around them. Here are a few of the stories weve been talking about this year. show was Baby Yoda considered to be both trendy helecopter they were riding in (not the real name). and ugly in turn throughout crashed on the way to a youth Suddenly, Baby Yoda LONG Eye lashes the past decade, Crocs and basketball league game. Bryant was The Coronavirus: The Impeachment Baby Yoda memes were everywhere. Uggs made a comback. What a colorful character who was not Trends for girls varied this year. A virus from Asia, the was new is the line of Uggs for without controversy. However, of Donald Trump: Loooong eyelashes and coronavirus quickly became Men that were released this year. many say that he was among the The House voted to impeach Me Explaing wigs made an a pandemic event and even the President, but the senate greatest to play the game of Me Explaining threatened the 2020 did not convict him of the appearance as did the basketball.
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