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The Cougar Call The Cougar Call, Ada High School, Ada, OK 74820, Vol. 37, No. 1, November, 2011 105 1/2 different things to do with duct tape By KELLI BYARS goggles Call Staff Writer 58. Make a ribbon Duct tape was first created in the year 59. Make a poster 1942. It was created to keep moisture out 60. Make a hair band holder of ammunition cases in World War II. 61. Customize the trash can in your room Since it was waterproof and it was made 62. Make a giant box out of water-duck it was often called “duck 63. Make a basket tape.” 64. Make a poncho This term is still tossed around today. 65. Make a tissue box After it was used in the war it was 66. Make a rainbow discovered to be quite useful around the 67. Make a guitar pick household and many other things. 68. Make a boardgame This is a list that is composed of the 21. Make a robot 69. Make a bracelet many different and creative activites to do 22. Fix your car 70. Lint remover 92. Make an eyepatch with duct tape. 93. Make a superhero mask 23. Stick your friend to a wall 71. Make an unbreakable pinata 93. Make a trophy 24. Customize your laptop 72. Make an ornament 1. Make a ball 94. Make a pokeball 25. Make a pair of glasses 73. Make a CD cover 2. Make a giant spork 95. Make a folder 26. Customize your belt 74. Make a baret 3. Make a pair of shoes 96. Make a pair of shorts 27. Make a mustache 75. Make a jigsaw puzzle 4. Make a beard 97. Make a pencil case 28. Make a fly swatter 76. Do-it-all fixer 5. Make a mask 98. Make colorful black-out poetry 29. Make a checkerboard 77. Make a cat toy 6. Make a sculpture 99. Make a book of doodles 30. Make a dogtag 78. Make a shower curtain 7. Customize your backpack 100. Make a roll of duct tape 31. Make a fan 79. Blackhead remover 8. Make a head band 101. Make a paintball suit 32. Make a drum 80. Make a coloful golf ball 9. Make a bookmark 102. Make an ammunition box moisture 33. Make a chalk holder 81. Make a doorstop 10 .Make a ring sealer 34. Make a heart 82. Make a ring 11. Make a necklace 103. Make a gym bag 35. Make a wand 83. Make an origami sculpture 12. Make a hobo quilt 104. Make an aglet 36. Make a plant pot 84. Make a jewelry box 13. Make a ninja star (shuriken) 105. Make a cast 37. Make a salt shaker 85. Make a yo-yo 14. Make a cell phone holder 86. Make a pencil grip 105 1/2. Make a (insert option) 15. Make a hat 38. Make a cat toy 39. Make a molecular structure 87. Make a corsage Whatʼs Inside 16. Make a superhero cape 88. Make paper weight 17. Make an eyepatch 40. Customize your guitar Page 2- Welcome to America Paul 18. Make an iPod holder 41. Make a picture frame 89. Make a halloween costume Page 3- Dear Japan, welcome back 42. Make a noise maker 19. Make a purse 90. Make a flower pen Page 4- Editorials 20. Make a wallet 43. Make coasters 91. Make a plane 44. Make a hair clip Page 5- About lunches 45. Make a bouquet of roses Page 6- The return of J-2 class 46. Make a mousepad Page 7- J-1 staff 47. Make a mozaik portrait Page 8- New band teacher 48. Make your favorite bandʼs logo 49. Make a toothpick pot Page 9- Baseballʼs new star coach 50. Make a butterfly Page 10- Care packages/Bagwells 51. Make a globe of the earth for lunch 52. Make a pirate hat Page 11- Basketball anyone? 53. Make a ball and a cup Page 12- Leadership wins “X- 54. Make a sun dial 55. Make a pair of dice THE-TXT” contest 56. Make a solar system 57. Make a pair of dayvision Page 2, The Cougar Call, Ada High School, Ada, OK, 74820, November, 2011 AdaBy KAIBREE DUNKERSON meetsThumerelle said thatPaul he thinks fluent. Thumerelle Call Staff Writer it will be hard for him to be away Thumerelle has mixed emotions about Foreign exchange students are an honor from his family and friends for this each country. to have in high school. They make the long period of time; however, it will “I like both France and America school fun and diverse. be good and learning a new way of about the same because each place Exchange students teach high schoolers life. has something else to like about it. how to adapt to other peopleʼs cultures, “I miss life in general. Itʼs all so different. Everything is different so its hard to accept people for who they are and not to I miss it,” he said. compare lifestyles,” he said. judge a book by its cover. He is currently playing football and will Thumerelle thinks that Americaʼs Exchange students come to America be playing soccer in the spring. lifestyle is calmer than Franceʼs. from all over the world. Some students “I like it [football]. Itʼs crazy He said that school in America is more who have been to Ada High were from for me because Iʼve never played, relaxed than it is in France. Germany, Japan, Norway, Sweden and but fun. It is intense,” he said. At his school back in France, they did this year from France. Thumerelle said that football was not have uniforms; however, neither girls Paul Thumerelle is from Lille, France. a very different sport than what he nor guys could show their legs. Girls have He came to Ada Aug. 10. Thumerelle is was used to. to wear jeans or long skirts, and guys have a junior. He hangs out with friends, goes to the to wear jeans. He came to America with an movies and normal teenage stuff outside Also, at his school, instead of the organization for exchange students of school. students switching classes the teachers who want to learn to speak better Thumerelle said that he learned switch classes. The students in each English, learn how Americans live English in school. It is unlike what we class stay the same, the teachers are and how America is different from do. Thumerellʼs school starts learning changing. France. English at age 9. Thumerelle will be a great addition to The host family who he is staying He also said that English wasnʼt hard Ada schools, teams and organizations with is the Joe Don Harrison family. to learn, itʼs just hard going from French this year. Thumerelle said that itʼs hard for him all day everyday to English all day Thumerelle will be leaving at the to be away from his family however. everyday. end of the school year. He will be he does for sure miss the life he lives He said that after he leaves he would going back to France to share his Paul Thumerelle on the sidelines the most because France is completely like to come back with friends later in time in America with friends and at an AHS game. He plans to play different from the life here. life because his English will be more family. soccer in the spring. ByWhat KALEI HULL kind ofMrs. Janet library Barrick, the AHS librarian doesn't about the publishing industry? haveDoes thebooks? price paid for the device pay off Call Staff Writer had a few thoughts about the device. “It would drastically change the with the price paid for a book? In this lifetime, there have been many “Personally I can see a time when publishing industry. I can foresee job “The books are typically cheaper on transformations of technology. The cassette we would possibly do away with hard layoffs as the need for printers, paper and the Kindle, and you can have a personal tape to a cd then to an iPod, VHS to DVD copy books and just do electronic other types of jobs could be eliminated,” library of thousands of books in one then to BluRay, and the bulky computers reading,” said Mrs. Barrick. commented Mrs. Barrick spot,” pointed out Mrs. Barrick. transformed into a thin pad a woman can Completely do away with books? Yes Although the printing industry would Another positive side to this? fit in her purse. you read that right. change, how would reading choices “One of the advantages to an eReader is From scrolls to newspapers, civilization “I wouldnʼt be opposed to going change? you have immediate access to a dictionary. has documented things on paper for many paperless in the library if it encouraged “They say you shouldnʼt judge a You can change the text size, and you centuries. Recently, new ideas have come more students to read. But it would be book by itʼs cover but most people can have someone read to you,” said Mrs up like the Nook and the Kindle. What is very costly to switch over,” added Mrs. do. With eReaders like the Kindle Barrick. So, what else could be bad about it? Barrick. you donʼt get to see a pretty cover, this new reader? The Kindle is a device with the same How would the library be altered if you canʼt hold the book and tell how “You lose some of the beautiful thought as an iPod touch. With an iPod, everyone had these electronic books? big it is, you canʼt tell how big it is, illustrations you find in books.