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COURTNEY:

Hi and welcome back to the Interns’ Chair. My name is Courtney and I am a High School Intern here at Ascension Public Schools Public Information Office. Today, you will get to meet and learn about all of our interns at the office for the 2019 through 2020 school year.  

 

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COURTNEY:

What is your name and what high school do you go to?

 

COURTNEY:

My name is Courtney and I go to Dutchtown High School.

 

EMMA:

My name is Emma and I go to East Ascension High School.

 

JOSH:

Hi, my name is Josh and I go to the Early College Option up at RPCC. 

 

KEVIN:

My name is Kevin and I go to Donaldsonville High School.

 

COURTNEY:

What makes your high school unique compared to others?

 

KEVIN:

My high school is unique because it's a small population and everybody is close in the community.

 

COURTNEY:

Dutchtown High School has amazing administration and faculty. Our administrators do everything in their power for you to have an amazing experience at our school. They are so accommodating and always willing to help students. They attend every event we have with smiles and grateful faces and I'm so lucky to attend a school where the administrators and faculty care so much about their students. Our principal actually just won principal of the year for the state and it was very well deserved.

 

JOSH:

We’re taking actual college classes with college professors, getting an associate’s degree whilst graduating from high school.


 

EMMA:

So EA is stepped in tradition. We have traditions that date back pretty much to 1966 when the first graduating class graduated and we are just so involved with our student body, athletics, you name it, we have it. We actually were named the best and most spirited student section last year and that’s something that we are very prideful about. We just love our traditions.

 

COURTNEY:

What has been one of your favorite experiences in high school so far?

 

JOSH:

Well one time for PE, for some reason, we were tasked with making kites and everybody else tried to do like fancy designs but we stuck with like diamond shaped designs. Our kite flew so high we actually couldn’t see it anymore, it was a very nice kite.

 

COURTNEY:

So for the students that take AP US history, they actually get to attend a living history day in which they dress up as someone they learned about and get to go to our primary school and teach the children about that character. I dressed up as Nancy Reagan and it was a very fun time just getting to teach students and also bolster your own understanding of the person. So, it was super fun and a great way to connect with our feeder systems, but also to get to teach children. 

 

KEVIN:

I'd say one of my favorite High School experiences was doing the breakfast club to be honest because I have family members calling me up telling “you’re famous” and all this.

 

EMMA:

My freshman year I was playing varsity and I was very nervous. We made playoffs that year by a long shot, we were not supposed to and we were playing against West Monroe High and we went there and we were not supposed to win and we won and it was one of the most exhilarating experiences as a soccer player and just as an athlete in general. I still do this day remember and my friends and I talk about it all the time. It is definitely my favorite soccer game I have ever played and I did it at EA.

 

COURTNEY:

Favorite last day of school activity? 

 

EMMA:

I take a day off school once I'm done with testing and I go visit Dutchtown Primary where my aunt is a kindergarten teacher and I spend the day helping her around the classroom, getting to know her kids that she taught that year, playing games with them, reading books and it is just something that I absolutely look forward to every year.

 

COURTNEY:

Although I have not yet participated in it, I am looking forward to my last day of senior year. At Dutchtown, all of the seniors have a water day that includes different water sports and water balloon fights, so it sounds like it is going to be a lot of fun. I do have an AP test that day, so I guess I have to dry off at some point. But, I think it is going to be a very fun last day of school activity. 

 

COURTNEY:

What is your dream job and what are your aspirations after high school?

 

JOSH:

My dream job? Probably something in journalism or the TV producing kind of thing, I would like to do that.

 

KEVIN:

My dream job, I want to be a photographer. I want to take pictures of nature and people, as well, certain special events.

 

COURTNEY:

Who do you look up to in your life? Real or fictional. 
 

COURTNEY:

My biggest role model is without a doubt my grandfather. He is actually the one who inspired my love for politics and history, but he also is the epitome of kindness and love and patience. And so, I hope that as I  move forward in my life and I do begin college and a career, that I make him proud in not only what I accomplish but how I treat others. 


 

KEVIN:

Real? I'd say my mom and my dad, they aren't together but they push me and my brothers to be the best and do the best we can. Mom is always on my back about doing this and that and my dad's always telling me to look for the best things in all and analyze certain situations and see what's best for you. Fiction character I look up to is Spider-Man. I think he's underrated but I think he's really cool and like he just takes care of the small community. 


 

JOSH:

In my life, my sister's always been very academically focused and she's always been very good at that. I don't know if it's looking up to exactly but I feel like there's an expectation for me that’s been set.

 

EMMA:

So, my number one role model has always been my big brother. He is about 10 years older than me, so we were always at different points in our lives. I started kindergarten when he started High School. he has always just encouraged me to be whoever and whatever I wanted, to be not to worry about what other people thought but to kind of pave my own path in my life and make of my life what I want.

 

COURTNEY:

This has been Courtney, your Public Information Office High School Intern and Host for today. Thank you so much for listening and tune in next time to the Interns’ Chair, but remember, I am just the intern! 

 

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