ISSUE. 4 | OCTOBER 2020 “This is Where You Want to Be” EST. 2019 THE SJB TIMES AUTUMN EDITION IN THIS ISSUE Grade 8 Welcome Night | 2 Secrets of Halloween Marketing | 20 Fall Masterpieces | 3 The Coziest Autumn Recipe | 21 Holy Moly: October Saints | 4 Meet Your Student Council | 24 WHO Are You Really? | 10 Student Photography | 26 The Hills are ALIVE! | 13 Critics are In: Film Spotlight | 29 This Teacher said WHAT?! | 15 HALP: Student Advice Column | 29 St. John Brebeuf Regional Secondary School [email protected] | www.stjohnbrebeuf.ca ISSUE. 4 | OCTOBER 2020 GRADE 8 WELCOME NIGHT SAMANTHA LUISTRO & FAITH NETZLAW Running, laughing, and having fun, this is sports that our school has to offer. Then, they what contributed to the grade eight welcome started giving us advice. Public speaking night being an absolute incredible advice, friendship advice, time management experience! It looks like the grade twelves advice and so much more. With this advice, pulled it off amazingly! At the beginning of us grade eights would be better able to handle the night, Mrs. Bryson split us up into small anxiety, stress, and so much more. All of it groups. After we were in our groups, we really helped us feel welcomed. Like we were headed into the gym. In the gym, Mr. Shin finally a part of the community here! gave us a small introduction of what’s going to happen. Then he sent us off to our stations. “Overall, it was a great experience and a great introduction to life here at SJB.” There were four stations, all of which were • Jayden Phan run by grade twelves. Two in the gym, one outside on the field, and one in the school “My favorite part about the night was the hallways. On one side of the gym, we played pizza!” a strange variation of volleyball where we • Anonymous used our feet instead of arms. On the other side of the gym, we played capture the flag. “The games were pretty enjoyable. Hanging Outside was a very unusual game called out with new people, making friends, and “sword and shield”. And in the hallways was eating pizza was also pretty fun.” a speed walking relay. After we completed • Anonymous the stations, it was time for dinner! We had a delicious pizza dinner from Panago, with a “It was really fun meeting and getting to side of pop and candy of your choice. We all know new people and seeing new faces.” sat scattered across the field. And after • Aleesha Coloma dinner, we gathered back in the gym and sat on the bleachers. “It was a very fun experience with my friends, and I got to make some great new ones! Also That night we got to hear some of the grade the grade twelves had some very inspiring twelves talk about many things. First, they words to say!” talked about some of the clubs, programs and • Faith Netzlaw 2 ISSUE. 4 | OCTOBER 2020 FALL ARTWORK CHRISTEL MAZZEK JADE DALIGDIG WOOJEONG YOUN “This is my artwork and the title is Imaginative Truth. While drawing this, I had thought that why do people usually draw the light from the sun in a curved line. I thought that this is one of the common imaginative truths. I thought it would be nice if people looked at my artwork and its title and think about what kind of connections they have.” 3 ISSUE. 4 | OCTOBER 2020 OCTOBER SAINTS FRANCESCA VOISCHOS Bl. Diego Luis de San Vitores Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627-1672) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary who founded the first Catholic church on the island of Guam. He is responsible for establishing the Spanish and Christian presence in the Mariana Islands. Feast Day: October 6 Birth: 1627 Death: 1672 Beatified: October 6, 1985, Vatican by Pope John Paul II St. Teresa of Ávila St. Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, original name Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada was a Spanish nun, one of the great mystics and religious women of the Roman Catholic Church, and author of spiritual classics. She was the originator of the Carmelite Reform, which restored and emphasized the austerity and contemplative character of primitive Carmelite life. St. Teresa was elevated to doctor of the church in 1970 by Pope Paul VI, the first woman to be so honoured. Feast Day: October 15 Birth: March 28, 1515 Death: October 4, 1582 Canonized: 1622 St. Lull Benedictine bishop and a relative of St. Boniface. He was a native of England and was educated at Malmesbury. He joined St. Boniface in Germany but was sent to Rome in 751. When St. Boniface died, Lull succeeded him as bishop of Mainz, Germany, although he never achieved the fame of his relatives. Feast Day: October 16 Birth: 710 Death: 787 St. Wolfgang Saint Wolfgang of Regensburg was bishop of Regensburg in Bavaria from Christmas 972 until his death. He is a saint of the Roman Catholic (canonized in 1052) and Eastern Orthodox churches. He is regarded as one of the three great German saints of the 10th century. Feast Day: October 31 Death: 994 4 ISSUE. 4 | OCTOBER 2020 CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES JAEWON LEE The whole world has been suffering from COVID-19. However, not only has the virus made our world worse, but also many other disasters like the Australian wildfires, heavy floods in many countries, and the Beirut chemical factory explosion aggravated our world. Adding insult to injury, the California Wildfire made people astonished due to its damage to our society and environment. California was (and in some places still is) covered with extremely orange skies, massive smoke clouds, and worsening air quality. This has affected about 70,000 people who had to evacuate from the city. Even though California was the city that was most affected by the wildfires, other states and countries have been damaged too. As the climate heated up, many other states in the West, including Oregon and Colorado, have been facing larger, more destructive fires and more perilous air quality from wildfire smoke. The wildfires seem to cause droughts and more damaged buildings in a lot of places. Not only is the US suffering from the wildfires, but also at least 5 Canadian provinces were covered by the fire’s smoke. Because of the harmful air quality, numerous people had a hard time breathing without masks. Fortunately, the smoky air has disappeared due to heavy rainfall and we are hoping that this is the end of the fires and poor air quality! CHUSEOK MADELEINE GROVES Thanksgiving and Halloween aren't the only big holidays in October. Chuseok - similar to American Thanksgiving - is one of Korea's biggest holidays. This holiday is celebrated by both North and South Korea on the 15th day and 8th month of the lunar calendar on the full moon and this celebration lasts a total of 3 days. I talked to two SJB Korean International students about what Chuseok is. They said that usually to celebrate Chuseok, they will eat Korean food, meet with family, celebrate their ancestors, and play games. One of the games is similar to monopoly and in another one everyone holds hands and spins like a merry-go-round. The SBJ students celebrate differently while in Canada. They call their family back home and eat Korean food. Happy Harvest! 5 ISSUE. 4 | OCTOBER 2020 LET’S KEEP ON LEARNING KOREAN! YOUJIN KIM Autumn 가을 (Gaeul) Maple Leaf 단풍 (Danpung) Thanksgiving 추수 감사절 (chu-su-gam-sa - day jeol) 6 ISSUE. 4 | OCTOBER 2020 Turkey 칠면조 (chil-myeon-jo) Horror 공포 (Gong-po) Ghost 유령 (yu-ryeong) 7 ISSUE. 4 | OCTOBER 2020 ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A MONTY HALL PROBLEM? DOROTHY JUNG Have you ever heard about Monty Hall’s problem? It was first introduced in an American TV show, “Let’s Make A Deal”, by the host Monty Hall. This is a probability puzzle that confuses people, especially when people think intuitively. This is a direct quote from the TV show: “Suppose you’re on a game show, and you’re given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you, "Do you want to pick door #2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?” Basically, you get to choose one of the doors, and when you choose one, the host will open one of the remaining doors that has a goat behind it. Regardless of which one you choose – whether a goat or car – he will open it. Do you think that switching your choice is a good idea? Or do you think that you should stick with your initial choice? The answer to this problem is that it is advantageous to change your choice. This brain teaser can be explained in various ways, and I will introduce the most well-known method to get to the solution. 1. Percentage One way to get to the solution to this problem is to use percentage. When you are choosing one of the three doors, you are choosing a door with 33% of the possibility that the car will be inside the door you’ve chosen. Next, the host will open one of the two doors remaining, which has a goat inside. Now, there are two doors left, and you need to determine whether or not to change your choice. This part is where most people get confused.