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Hillside’s Sightseeing P.1 Aisha Orphaned elephant P.2 GLOBAL GAZETTE Café Talk P.3 Faculty profile P.4 October, 2015 October Holidays P.5 Inspirational Athletes
P.6 Ping Pong Rankings P.7 Global Club P.8 Teacher Travel Blog P.9
Student profiles P.10-13 Bulldog Bullpen P.14 International Book review P.15 Foods from Abroad
P.16 World Mysteries 1. P.17 ~ Global Club ~President Lucas Adam & Vice Int’l Trivia Teasers President Mike Zhang P.18 The Traveling Translator This club was created to foster a continued strong P.19 connection between our international students and American students and faculty. We are intent on sharing our international cultures with the Hillside population as well as learning about other cultures.
Sightseeing
1. New York City 1.
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New York City, nicknamed in the fashion, research, technology,
1920s “the Big Apple,” by education, and entertainment. New legendary sportswriter John J. Fitz York City has often been described Gerald, is one of the world’s best as the cultural and financial capital known megalopolises. With a of the world. It is also home to the English renamed it New York popu lation of over 10 million, an United Nations Headquarters and is after they won the Second Anglo- electric atmosphere, and world an important global center for Dutch War. New York grew in class shopping and dining, New international diplomacy. importance as a trading post under York City has been designated by ituated on one of the world’s S British rule. sociologist Saskia Sassen as a largest natural harbors, New York “global power city.” With its is made up of five boroughs: Today, New York attracts visitors towering skyscrapers, and awe- Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, from all over the world. Wander inspiring bridges, New York boasts Manhattan, and Staten Island. The around Wall Street’s massive one of the most recognizable city was first inhabited by edifices, take a frenetic stroll amidst the neon lights of Times skylines in the world. Moreover, it Algonquin tribes in the pre-colonial has an irrepressible energy that Square, or visit the leafy pathways era. In 1524, Giovanni de exerts a significant impact on of the city’s Central Park. There Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer, world commerce, media, art, was the first European to sail into are world famous iconic
New York Harbor. In 1609, English landmarks like the Statue of
explorer Henry Hudson, re- Liberty, Broadway, the Empire discovered the region which was State Building, Rockefeller Plaza, later controlled by the Dutch and and more. New York City has called New Amsterdam. The something for everyone.
1. Cool Facts about New York City
Madison Square Garden used to be a cemetery
Has more people than 39 states
Has the largest Chinese population outside of Asia Madison Square Garden
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International Animal Stories
Aisha: The Orphan Baby Elephant
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The Baby Elephant that Found a Mom and Changed a Nation 1. PBS recently aired a documentary about famed conservationist Daphne
Sheldrick and a baby elephant she named Aisha and affectionately referred 1. to as “Shmetty.” Sheldrick, of British heritage, was born in Kenya and is world renowned for raising and reintegrating orphaned elephants back into the wild. Her lifelong mission began in 1974 with a chance meeting with a tiny baby elephant named “Aisha.” Separated from its mother, the baby girl had fallen down a disused well in the Kenyan county of Marsabit. She was1. A remarkable bond found by a local driver and brought to Sheldrick. It was the smallest elephant Sheldrick had ever seen, “covered still in soft fuzz, with a tiny trunk tinged with pink, and toenails of pale yellow. It tottered on wobbly legs, waggling its trunk around as though it had no idea what to do with it, searching for something to suck; too young even to know the meaning of fear. ” Sheldrick had little experience with orphaned elephants at this time, but knew that the baby needed a lot of attention. Furthermore, she had enough experience with wild animals that she knew Aisha needed a precise f ormula of milk otherwise she might not eat and likely die. After searching Aisha at 4 months old for that formula and watching Aisha wither away, she finally found one 1. that young Aisha took to and watched as the baby elephant grew stronger. An incredible bond ensued between Sheldrick and Aisha. The little elephant would follow her around all day and believed that Sheldrick was her mother. The days became months and young Aisha grew and thrived in a loving environment. One summer, Sheldrick’s daughter, Jill, was to be married in Nairobi. Another surrogate mother was to tutor and care for young Aisha as Sheldrick spent a week away. When she returned, the conservationist was horror stricken to discover that baby Aisha had become depressed, not eaten, and was gravely ill. In tears, Sheldrick explains thirty years later how she watched Aisha die as she cradled the baby’s head in her lap. She had realized that elephants are very similar to humans in their emotions and that Aisha believed that she had been abandoned by her mother, again. The story is profoundly moving and left Sheldrick taking a vow of silence for many decades; however, it inspired her to open an elephant orphanage in Kenya where she has saved the lives of thousands of PBS Documentary orphaned elephants at a wildlife preserve named after her late husband. http://video.pbs.org/video/236 5284372 Page.2 Global Gazette Hillside School Café Talk October
International Café
Dahmir giving USA Trivia for Miss Lord’s American Cafe
Mrs. Brown made Parisian mussels as we
celebrated France. They were a big hit as over
twenty people turned out to celebrate Lucas Adam’s home country. The mussels were cooked in garlic, scallions, tomatoes, and butter. We had a baguette sliced into many pieces to dip into the sauce. Grape juice was served to simulate a red-wine like French Apple pie experience. th On Thursday, October 29 we celebrated the USA as Miss Lord baked four delicious homemade apple pies. They were topped off with vanilla ice cream and washed down with ice cold milk. Vice-President Fowlkes gave the
kids American trivia and the boys participated Miss Pagnam & Miss Lord enthusiastically. Federico Barcena Escandon won the most enthusiastic participant and will French mussels receive a free pass to the next Café.
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1. Mr. Morgan
Chris Morgan
Mr. Morgan, Hillside’s popular in Richmond, Virginia. Morgan was against setting traps.
ESL teacher and varsity wrestling Interestingly, he’s lived in 7 states Some say that you can judge a man coach, has been here for three including: Tennessee, North by how he treats animals. If this is years. He has garnered the Carolina, Oklahoma, Kentucky, true, then Chris Morgan has to be admiration of parents, faculty, and Texas, and Louisiana. He’s a good considered one of the finest.
students alike with his upbeat style ole southern boy who was
and honest approach. The boys obviously raised in a household in Mr. Morgan went to VCU. He gravitate to him because, in Mr. which manners mattered. Mr. majored in English. He’s also Morgan, they sense a guy who is Morgan will address colleagues as taught overseas. He calls Korea his firm but fair. He pushes them on the “Mr.” and “Mrs.” and often sign “favorite home away from home.” wrestling mat and in the classroom emails “Cordially Yours.” Even if Mr. Morgan taught English to to be the best they can be, and the you try to tell him to call you “Bill” Korean children in Busan. He loved kids recognize this and love him for or “Steve,” Mr. Morgan finds it his time spent there and often talks it. The faculty warm to him because hard to do. He likes to address about the rewarding experiences he has the cordiality of a southern people with respect. But people are and connections he made. He has gentleman and, in him, they see a not the only living things that two brothers and sisters, loves man who won’t sway from his matter to Mr. Morgan. He is a huge Fantasy Football, the Redskins, conspiracy theories, and credits Mr. principles. Just what are those animal lover and a guy who would Evans and Miss Lucey who have principles? To me, they seem like: rather trap ants and release them helped him “settle in here at honesty, integrity, and a into a backyard than spray them commitment to excellence. with insecticide. I know this Hillside.” Mr. Morgan is a great
firsthand, as when we had a minor addition to our Hillside community Chris Morgan was born and raised “ant problem” in Maher House, Mr. and we’re lucky to have him.
Cool Facts about Mr. Morgan
Played high school football
th Weighed 103 pounds as a 9 grader
Loves to water ski
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FiguringInternational Out theHolidays Faculty
October Holidays
Around the World October is a month of celebrations Oct. 3rd Unity Day in all around the world. American kids
tend to think of Halloween, cool Germany
temperatures, and the changing colors Oct. 5th Republic Day of the leaves. But, in other parts of the world, many other types of in Portugal celebrations are going on. Here are just a few. Oct. 1st Good Will
Day in Namibia
1. 1. Oct. 23 Chulalongkorn Oct. 31st Halloween in
Day in Thailand 1. USA
1. 1. 1. 1.
Cool Facts about October
• October 4th, 1957 the Soviets launched first satellite
• October 12th, 1492 Columbus landed in America
• October is National Pizza Month 1. First satellite
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1. Inspirational Athletes
1. Inspirational
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1. Athletes…by Justin Kinney
ach Hodskins is currently a walk-on Z sophomore basketball player at the University
of Florida. You wouldn’t think much of that
unless you also knew that he was born without his lower left arm.
“I always had the mindset that I had two hands. I never told myself I couldn’t do something and my parents never did, either,” he said. “There were doubters. Coaches cut me. Kids wouldn’t pass me the ball. I just Zach Hodskins kept coming back and fighting through it. I Jump shot always found a way.”
Zach grew up to be an incredible athlete in every sport he tried. With perseverance and a really strong work ethic, he developed into a star on his high school basketball team at
Milton (GA.) High, which won state
championships two of the four years he was
there. Despite his physical challenges,
Hodskins averaged 11.8 points, shot 37
percent from the floor and 29 percent from
On the hardwood the 3-point line his senior season. Meeting a fan Hodskins loved when teams thought they could force him to his left because he’d worked all his life to develop counter moves and was ready for it.
“Zach’s accomplishments on the court are truly amazing,” said Milton coach Matt Kramer. “He is a very good shooter who can stretch a defense with his range. All that said, the thing that gives Zach a realistic chance to succeed as a walk-on at college basketball’s highest level is his incredible drive and competitive spirit that is unsurpassed by Zach plays for Florida Zach at the point anyone I have ever coached.”
Page.6 Global Gazette Hillside School Zach is yet more proof that you can do anything that you set your mind to! Ping Pong Rankings
October Ping Pong Rankings 1. 1.
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Top 5 at Hillside
“Hillside’s Best”
1. Dima Piskun(UKR)
2. Amir Thomas(BER) 3. Lucas Adam (FRA)
1. 1. 4.Z’Dao Dill(BER) 5. David Tan (CAN) Top 5 1. Top 5 Foos Ball
Rising Stars 1. Will Stephenson (USA)
1. Ted Chiaramonte (BER) 2. Mr. Tang (TEC)
2. Edward Kosek(USA) 3. Lucas Adam (FRA)
3. Dahmir Fowlkes (USA) 4. Ameer Bayramli (SWI) 4. Diego Selem (MEX) 5. Caleb Bloch (USA) 5. Mark Anderson (USA)
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Global Club
The Global Club
The Global Club had two trips this month. On Saturday, October rd 3 , the boys poured into a Hillside bus as we made our way to the next
town over for some delicious,
authentic Korean food. The table was already prepared when we arrived. We were treated to bulgogi
(barbequed beef), spicy Korean Chinese Super Buffet soup, kimchi, noodles, rice, seafood, Korean BBQ and so much more. Three weeks later, on Saturday, October 24th, the Global Club loaded up the buses once again and drove to the Chinese Super Buffet in Marlborough. This trip was a huge hit with the boys and teachers alike as the buffet offered deep fried chicken and pork, crab Rangoon, dim sum, wontons, hot ‘n sour soup, dumplings, seasoned
mussels, shrimp of all sorts, a rack
President Adam & company of lamb, and more. Our next stop is Noah Tidus chowing down
La Tapatia in Marlborough.
Korean food Outside Korean restaurant Looks good!
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Teacher’s Travel Blog
Teacher’s Travel Blog
by Mr. Brown
This year, Mr. and Mrs. Brown
traveled to some exciting places around the globe. The first stop was in the Land of the Rising Sun where the two seasoned travelers visited Tokyo, Atami, Narita, and finally Okayama, where Mrs. Brown has family. The trip was full of excitement as the Brown’s toured Tokyo’s fashionable Shibuya district, bathed in popular hot springs, shopped in historic villages, and made their way through the bustling crowds of Tokyo. In June, In the heart of Tokyo June in Nova Scotia they drove up to the rugged and rocky coastline of Nova Scotia.
There, they spent two nights on
Cape D’or with its iconic lighthouse jutting out on a rocky overlook of the Bay of Fundy. The couple then packed up and made their way to the rolling hills of the Annapolis Valley during apple picking season before finally visiting the capital city of Halifax. The Jersey Shore was the destination on July 4th for a Dinner in Atami, Japan July 4th, New Jersey barbeque and some fireworks with family. The group shot on the right was taken at Mr. Brown’s uncle and aunt’s condominium in Barnegat Bay. Finally, summer travel concluded in Canada’s trendy city of
Montreal. Mr. and Mrs. Brown took
a stroll down the ever popular St. Catherine’s St., visited Old Montreal and the Notre Dame Basilica, and
ended the trip by visiting Olympic
In historic Narita Village where the city hosted the ’76 August in Montreal Olympics. 1.
Travel
Page.9 Global Gazette Hillside School Spotlight…Student Profiles
Sunghun Kim
powered lawyer in the Korean winner in the field. In watching Eric capital, while the latter is a thriving play around Hillside, it appears that he models his game after Kang. businesswoman who can be seen on Eric is a gifted fielder and strong occasion on Hillside campus batter. But, baseball is not the only tending to her young son. The Kim’s sent their only child to an sport he plays well. He’s also a
American boarding school in hopes rising star on the Hillside ping pong
that he would receive the best circuit and a talented cross country education possible. So far, Eric is runner. off to a good start. His English is that of a beginner, but his When he’s older, Eric wants to comprehension skills are solid and settle down in Korea where, if all he’s making rapid improvements in goes according to plan, he’ll be the language. playing baseball in the KBO. If he Eric doesn’t make it to the pros, he
Sunghun “Eric” Kim is a South So Eric, why did you choose to Korean national who has made come to our tiny corner of the world quite a name for himself in the here at Hillside? The young athletic short time he has been here at South Korean maintains that Hillside. All the kids like him, and “Hillside has good sports and the studying is good.” Eric mentions he is one of the best natural sports first as it is no secret that athletes this school has seen in a long time. Eric is a wizard on the someday he wants to be a The Avengers ping pong tables, talented in professional baseball player. His always has a good education to fall baseball and soccer, and good at hero is South Korean Kang Jung- back on. I’m sure that’s what his just about everything he plays. ho, a third baseman and shortstop mother is thinking. If I’m not Moreover, he’s got an easy going for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major mistaken, many Korean parents put manner, a positive spirit, and a League Baseball. Kang had a high value on their sons and great laugh that draws other kids previously played in the Korean daughters making it to the to him. Although he has only been Baseball League for the Hyundai professional world in Korea’s high here for a small amount time, Eric Unicorns. Koreans are passionate powered job market. But, for now, about their sports stars and Kang Kim has had a big impact on our Eric’s a kid enjoying his time on community. receives the adulation of millions of Bulldog campus. He lives in Mack fans on the Korean peninsula. He is House and has some good friends Born in Seoul, South Korea known for his impressive batting like Charlie Nan and Jun Seok twelve years ago, Sunghun Kim and is a Golden Glove Award Yang. His favorite movie is The grew up in one of the world’s most Avengers, a story about the world’s electric cities. This sprawling greatest heroes coming together to megalopolis, with a population of fight as a team. That seems fitting over 25 million residents, is since Eric is all about sports and the perhaps the technological hub of team. Speaking of the team, we’re the world. It was here that Eric’s happy to have you on ours here at father, Sung Hwan, and mother, Hillside, Eric. Welcome on board Jae Young, raised this fine young Seoul, South Korea young man! man. The former is a high-
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Diego Selem Garcia
beautiful sounding name. Elias Solomon Pond Theater to watch the owns a small hotel near the release of Ant Man. It was terrific! vacation destination of Cancun and The special effects were amazing Maria, in Diego’s words, “sells and it seemed obvious to me that clothes.” Elias and Maria sent their young Diego was in heaven. He only child to a boy’s middle couldn’t stop talking about the boarding school in Marlborough, movie on the way home and in the Massachusetts to get an American dorm. experience in education. It has been tradition in many Mexican families Diego says that he loves Hillside
to have their sons and daughters and that “nothing is really hard.” study abroad in the eighth grade He’s one of those boys who adjusts then return to the homeland. Of course, some boys stay longer and Diego even enter the U.S. secondary school system. We’re hoping that Driving home one evening from a Diego Selem Garcia is one of them. JumpStart summer activity in He adds so much to our school and Natick, I had the pleasure of has been a delight to have here. talking to an interesting young
man and Mexican national, Diego Diego digs comic books. This Selem Garcia. In this forty minute very well to his surroundings. I summer he and Mr. Ribeiro really ride, we talked about everything bonded over their love of Ant Man, recall his grandmother worrying from life in Mexico to Stan Lee Iron man, the Hulk, and the rest of about homesickness when he was and the comic book heroes of Stan Lee’s superhero characters. first dropped off here. Although I’m Marvel lore. In fact, Diego had me Lee made a name for himself in the sure Diego missed his family, he so engaged that I lost track of our seventies working for Marvel dove right into our events and did route and Mr. Ribeiro, who was Comics in New York City. Even I not seem to dwell on being away following us, had to speed ahead remember getting my quarter and from Mexico. His parents are his and take over the navigational running to the nearest corner store role models and, when he’s older, duties. Diego loves to talk, and for a copy of the latest Fantastic Diego wants to be a chef. I’m sure he’s interesting. His mind is active Chef Brendan in our Hillside Four comic fresh off the stand. and he wonders about everything kitchen would be happy to hear this. Diego, Mr. Ribeiro, and the rest of and anything, just the way any Diego helps out in the kitchen often the Hillside JumpStart members, neat kid with a great imagination loaded in a couple of buses on a and is no doubt picking up tips
in the eighth grade will. He’s been Friday night and headed to the from our staff. Well, I’m sure quite the find for us here at Diego can do anything he puts his Hillside. mind to. He’s fearless and open to new challenges just like his Diego was born in Mexico City. superhero characters. We’re happy He is the only child of Elias Selem to have you here at Hillside, Diego. and Maria Garcia. As you may Thanks for coming and it has been a have noticed, Mexican children pleasure getting to know you. Like incorporate both their mother’s your idol Ant Man, you’re kind of a and father’s last names. What a miniature hero around here. great idea, and it makes for a Mexico City
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Spotlight… Student Profiles
Joshua Shepherd
and Carol. David works in the Vinnie “the Microwave” Johnson Bloomberg Building, a glass play basketball. He was called the skyscraper on the East Side of microwave for how fast he heats up. Midtown Manhattan, and the Coach Osae is trying to harness that headquarters of Bloomberg, L.P., a energy and get Josh thinking about privately held financial software controlling the ball and slowing and media company. Carol is an down the play, especially if the accountant for McAndrews & team is playing lesser opponents. Forbes, a company which acquires It’s good advice and Mr. Osae and manages a diversified portfolio wants to develop Josh’s game, but of public and private companies. that style might not be in this kid’s Carol also happens to be Josh’s role model. When asked why, the young, energetic “Shep” replies that “she’s pretty much a mom and a Josh dad. She does everything for me. I can always talk to her and she’s I wandered down to Acker field a always there for me!” Josh also has few weeks ago to catch the varsity an older sister, Cassie, who is “out s occer team. They were playing of college and working.” Buckley School, NYC Fenn, I think. I didn’t pay much DNA. In fact, he may not even
attention to the competition though Josh attended the Buckley School know what the words “slow it down as I began to converse with Amir in New York City before he came a bit” mean. Thomas’ father, Armel. The score to Hillside. It is there that he was 1-1 and the Bulldogs, So Shep, why did you decide to excelled on the soccer pitch. Josh according to Mr. Thomas, were not come north? Josh replies that he gained a reputation as an explosive playing as a team. Well, that striker and goal scorer at Buckley. “wants to get a feel for boarding
quickly changed. A little lightning When you watch him play, you can schools and eventually get into a rod by the name of Josh Shepherd see why. He’s fast, good with the top New England prep school for injected Hillside with a whole lot of ball, and plays with a high level of soccer.” I would think that many energy and led them to three quick intensity. With no disrespect secondary schools in this area scores. The whole complexion of intended to anyone else, he’s my would be dying to get their hands the game changed within a matter favorite player to watch out there. on this kid. He’s got a world of of minutes, and I knew that this He gets the ball and he goes talent and skill. After secondary new guy from the Big Apple had towards the net. It’s like watching school, he wants to attend Boston plenty of skill on the soccer pitch former Piston’s scoring machine College, UCLA, or Stanford. When and, more importantly, an he’s older he wants to be a infectious spirit that catches on with professional soccer player or, like his teammates. Not only is Josh this his mother, “work with numbers.”
way in soccer, he’s like that in the If he becomes anything like his
halls and everyday life here at mother, he’ll do well in life. From Hillside. He has the unique ability the sounds of things, she’s an to pick people up wherever he goes. amazing person. Well, young Josh Shepherd, you’re pretty amazing Josh Shepherd was born in New 1. too and can do anything in life you New York City York City. He is the son of David put your mind to. 1. Page.12 Global Gazette Hillside School
Spotlight… Student Profiles
Frankie Ireland
is likely from his father that Frank students alike. Junior got his grit on the sports field. His mother, Tracey, is in Frankie’s hobbies include hockey finance and works as a Community and lacrosse. He can always be seen Relations Advisor. Perhaps it’s out on the quad with a lacrosse stick from Tracey that Frankie got his and a ball. He’s forever whipping
sense for practical thinking. the ball at the top corner of a
Together, Frank’s combination of lacrosse net. It always amazes me toughness and smarts has served how well kids like Frankie can him well in life. He’s regarded as handle it. Whenever I pick up a one of the best hockey players at lacrosse stick, I feel lost. It seems Hillside, a solid student-athlete, and hard to catch and control. But, these will certainly make a splash when guys get out there, run full speed, secondary schools come looking for are hacked at by defenders, and can Frankie quality recruits. Frankie also has an cradle and pass with ease. You I remember at the start of the older sister, Jackie, and a younger think to yourself: How on Earth is it 2014-2015 school year playing sister, Avery. pickup basketball with two pretty cool Hillside newcomers in the Young Frank Ireland ironically seventh grade. One was Tyler found out about Hillside when he Anastasi, and the other was Frankie was in Illinois of all places. He had Ireland. These two teamed up to been at a hockey tournament in
form a tough-to-beat team on the Chicago when he met the affable Johnny Gaudreau hardcourt. Tyler, was the little Mr. Hayes from the Hillside that they don’t lose the ball or quick guard in the backcourt, and Admissions Team. It was Mr. misfire? Frankie, was the bruiser in the Hayes who persuaded Frankie to middle. I recall having one of my come to our quaint little campus in Frankie’s role model is left JV basketball players on my side, Marlborough. Deciding to come to winger Johnny Gaudreau of the trying to take down these crafty Hillside has paid off for both Calgary Flames. Gaudreau played athletes. I thought to myself: man, Frankie and Hillside. The former NCAA Division 1 hockey for I’d love to get these guys in has been receiving a quality Boston College where he starred education and playing for a high from 2011-2014. “Johnny Hockey” basketball, but that was an impossibility given their talents on profile hockey squad. He says that dominated the NCAA and was
the ice. We had some good times he “feels part of a family” here on selected an NHL All-Star in 2015.
playing at recess time, and it Bulldog campus. And the latter has Perhaps, Frank will have this kind quickly became apparent that Frank made out pretty well too. We’ve of success too. He’s off to a good Ireland is quite the athlete. received a quality student who has start in the hockey world. But if garnered the respect of faculty and things don’t work out on the ice, Frankie was born in Norton, Frankie would like to be a police Massachusetts. The town is known officer. Whether he’s out there on for hosting a PGA Tour event as the ice attacking the opposing well as the Deutsche Bank team’s nets or on the streets Championship. Frankie’s father, defending the community, Frankie Frank Senior, is the fourth Frank in Ireland is sure to be a success. This the Ireland family. He is a crane kid is good at everything he does. operator and hard-working man. It Norton, MA
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School Store
The Bulldog
Bullpen by
Miss Lucey The Bulldog Pen continues to be a staple
in everyone’s life! Snacks are continuing to fly off the shelves and we just received a shipment of stylish Boathouse jackets. With the colder weather coming, we have a variety of sweatshirts, long-sleeved tees, pajama pants, and sweatpants to keep you warm! So be sure to grab your Hillside Tee $20 Hillside gear from the Bullpen! Boathouse jacket style
Nike hooded sweatshirt $50 Vineyard Vines Tie $55
Ameer & Trey Hillside Bulldog $10
Cool Changes in the Pen
• Moved locations and is now in the old weight room
• Stylish sign, cash register, and a mini-snack bar Awesome new sports apparel and Vineyard Vines
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International Book Review
International
Book Review
By Mr. Steere Square, where the Cheka prison was located.
The book moves quickly and is an important piece of writing for the world we live in. Yelchin is also Jewish and was born in St. Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia. He wrote this book in Los Angeles, California, where he still lives. The 1900s have been hard on both his fellow citizens and members of his religion as they dealt with oppression in different forms. In Breaking Stalin’s Nose, a Jewish supporting character is given the mean nickname “Four Eyes Finkelstein” by his classmates, and he is also the target of teacher berating. Yelchin uses
Breaking Stalin’s Nose these examples to discuss suffering from oppression in all its’ forms, and it’s no wonder this historical novel has By Eugene Yelchin been translated into Yelchin’s native language, plus
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Romanian, and Story: This is a story about the plight of Russian- Turkish. Other Russian books in our library include:
American, Eugene Yelchin, and his life under Stalinism in the Soviet Union. It is a short book Anya’s Ghost, a graphic novel about a Russian about what it means to be free. A 2012 Newberry immigrant who is attending a (I’m not Honor, the book tells the story of 10-year-old Sasha kidding) New England private school by Vera Zaichik. He is a student, the son of a Checka police Brosgol. officer (a secret police created by Lenin shortly after
the October Revolution of 1917), and proud of his country. Slowly, however, Zaichik begins to realize Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse, an American, but the book concerns a young things aren’t so great in freezing Moscow, with its Jewish Russian’s story. ominous buildings and dark cars, and mean-spirited neighbors. Yelchin is an artist (check out his work at Arcady’s Goal, Eugene Yelchin’s next book, www.eugeneyelchin.com) and his book features about a Soviet orphan whose soccer skills are dreary black and white illustrations of snowy a means of survival after his parents are landscapes, towering figures of politics, and one particularly heartbreaking rendition of Lubyanka declared enemies of the state. 1. of snowy landscapes, towering figures of And more. politics, Facts and one particularly about heartbreaking Eugene Yelchin rendition of Lubyanka Square, where the Cheka • prisonco-founded was located.Tomsk Children’s Theater in Siberia
The book moves quickly and is an important piece • of 2006 writing received for the Tomie world DePaola we live in.Illustration Award Yelchin is also Jewish and was born in St. 1979 went to the Leningrad Theatre of Institute Arts Petersburg, the second-largest city in Russia. He wrote this book in Los Angeles, CA, where he still lives. The 1900s have beenPage.15 hard on both his fellow citizens and Global Gazette Hillside School members of his religion as they’ve dealt with oppression in different forms. In Foods from Abroad
From France
Roasted Escargot is a delicious treat from one of the culinary
capitals of the world. Literally, the word “escargot” means snail and, in French culture, these delicious roasted snails are served as hors d’oeuvres or appetizers. So what’s the secret to making these land snails so tasty? The French say that the trick is to purge them from the shell, saute them in butter, white wine, and chicken stock, then place them back into the shells with butter sauce drizzled on top. Additional ingredients such as parsley, thyme, and pine nuts can be sprinkled on top. Special tongs are sometimes used by diners to extract the snails from the shells.
Food lovers and gourmets from around the globe consistently Escargot rank escargot as one of the top appetizers the world has to offer.
From Armenia aucuses abob is a delicious entree from Armenia. Deep C K from within the Caucasus Mountain region of this small country that straddles Europe and Asia, comes this meat dish that is adored by many. Kabobs can be made with all sorts of meats including turkey, lamb, pork, and more. This particular recipe calls for three pounds of ground lamb, finely chopped onions and parsley, cumin, paprika, garlic, and kosher salt. Heat up 1. your grill to 450 degrees and cook for eight minutes and you’ll Caucuses Kabob have one of the tastiest treats imaginable.
From Vietnam Salt and Pepper Tiger Prawns is a simple dish from Southeast Asia that is enjoyed by millions. It’s a crispy and light delicacy that happens to be a great appetizer for seafood lovers. Traditionally, it is made with the shrimp heads on and includes
some simple ingredients such as: black pepper, red pepper flakes, oil, cornstarch, and of course the shrimp and prawns. Although Vietnam has popularized this dish, it is made around the world in countries such as Cambodia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and South 1. Salt and Pepper Tiger Prawns Korea. Don’t miss out on Salt and Pepper Tiger Prawns.
From China iaolongbao is a tasty Chinese treat that essentially constitutes X soup dumplings. Originally, this dish comes from Shanghai and is filled with various types of meats and soup broths. The main ingredients are simple: dough, minced meat, and aspic. The inventor of this dish originally sold these dumplings in a downtown park. It was so popular that the recipe expanded into the rest of Shanghai and, over time, all around the world. Xiaolongbao 1. Page.16 Global Gazette Hillside School
World Mysteries
Dedicated to
Mystery lover Mr.
Noah Tidus
The Kinross Incident
In 1953, Lieutenant Felix Moncla of the United States Air Force mysteriously disappeared while performing an intercept mission over Lake Superior. On the evening of November 23rd, Air Defense
Ground Command Intercept radar at Kinross Air Force Base in
Michigan, identified “an unusual target” near Soo Locks. Lieutenant
Moncla, who was on temporary assignment at the base, was called into action as jets scrambled to investigate the radar blip. Moncla took an F-89 Scorpion Interceptor and, at 500 mph, closed in on the object while crossing Northern Lake Superior from west to east at an altitude of 7,000 feet. Second Lieutenant Robert L. Wilson acted as the Scorpion’s radar operator. Wilson reported having trouble tracking the object, so the ground radar operators gave Moncla directions towards the object as he flew. Unexpectedly, the two blips, according to ground radar, merged into one. They assumed that Moncla had flown over or under the target and two blips would reappear. They never did! Only one blip continued. Attempts were made to contact Moncla via radio, but failed. A search and rescue operation was mounted by the USAF and RCAF but to no avail. No trace of Moncla’s plane was ever found. The official accident report states that when the unknown object was picked up on radar it was believed to be a RCAF aircraft that strayed off course, but the Canadian Air Force vehemently denies that assertion. Donald Keyhoe, in his 1955 book The Flying Saucer Conspiracy, maintains that he received a phone call from a high ranking Air Force officer one night stating that the rumor at Selfridge field was that an F-89 was absorbed by a flying saucer.
The Solway Firth Space Man In 1964, a man photographing his daughter on Burgh Marsh in Cumbria, England, captures a figure in a space suit in the background. At the time, local fireman and historian, Jim Templeton, swore that, upon taking the photo, there was no one present. However, the shot of his daughter seems to capture what appears to look like an astronaut overlooking the Solway Firth. Templeton
maintained that the only other people on the marshes that day were “a couple of old ladies sitting in a car at the far end.” In a letter to The Daily Mail in 2002, 1. Templeton stated, “I took three pictures of my daughter Elizabeth in a similar pose and was shocked when the middle picture came back from Kodak displaying what looks like a
spaceman in the background.” Analysts from Kodak have confirmed that the photograph was genuine.
David Clark, a lecturer and writer at Sheffield Hallam University in Yorkshire, surmises that the photo likely captures Templeton’s wife Annie, who, unknown to Jim, walked into the shot. Clark reasons that the old Kodak cameras had viewfinders that only allowed 70 percent peripheral visibility, and that her image was overexposed when the photos were developed. Templeton says the police dismissed the image as “unsuspicious.” After the photograph surfaced, it received worldwide attention. Templeton claimed to have later been visited by two men from the government telling him that he had not seen the figure. This strange case has been debated for over half a century. Page.1 7 Int’l Trivia Teasers
10 International Trivia Questions for the Month of October
1) How many countries in Europe does the Danube River wind through?
a) 3 b) 8 c) 10 2) Which European city is known as “Little Paris?”
a) Lyons b) Budapest c) Bucharest
3) What is South Korea’s biggest export? a) cars b) electronics C) machinery
4) Where was legendary loyal dog, Hachiko, born? a) Tokyo b) Odate c) Okayama
5) If you were paid in “forint,” you’d likely be in this country? a) Yemen b) Uzbekistan c) Hungary
6) Tarzan’s parents were from this country? a) England b) Kenya c) unknown 7) In which present day city was Constantinople?
a) Istanbul b) Ankara c) Baghdad
8) Which continent has one quarter of the world’s languages? a) Asia b) Africa c) Europe
9) In the 1960s, the CIA tried to spy on the Kremlin using this? a) satellites b) acoustic cats c) listening devices in borscht 10) Mata Hari, the accused spy, was born in this country?
a) The Netherlands b) France c) Germany
Answers: 1) c 2) c 3) b 4) b 5) c 6) a 7) a 8) b 9) b10) a
Page.18 Global Gazette Hillside School The Traveling Translator
October from around the world
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English -October
Octubre Spanish -
Korean -sipwol 십월
Japanese -Jyū-gatsu 十月
Hindi -Aktubara अ啍टूबर
Malay -Oktober 1.
Chinese -Shí yuè 十月
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