Senior Women Hosts Breakfast for Freshmen

          On Tuesday, Aug. 23, senior women from the class of 2012 invited freshmen women to come and enjoy an interactive, “welcome to high school” breakfast in the commons during academic  lab. 
          Sharing advice, making new friends, and indulging in donuts, while taking a break from the stressors of everyday high school life, freshmen and senior women were taking the opportunity to build a stronger community here at Parkway North.
          “Our goal as senior women is to be role models for our North female community and we feel this breakfast will empower Viking women to make good choices and increase the sense of Viking’s spirit,” said Senior Women sponsors and breakfast coordinator, psychology teacher Melody Barger.
          The purpose of the senior women breakfast for the freshmen females was to create a connection linking the two grade levels together in such a way that freshmen would feel comfortable talking to senior women and feel accepted into the realm of high school.
          “I think it was a really good way to get to know the seniors.  It helped me realize that the seniors were once freshmen like us and felt the same way we did.  It was reassuring to know that even though in high school stuff happens, at the end everything turns out okay.  All the advice was great,” said freshman Zainab Naqvi.
          Seniors and freshmen alike had the opportunity to gain insight on lessons learned throughout high school when senior women spoke on problems they faced in high school. 
          “I believe that the Senior Women Breakfast did a lot of good for the female community of Parkway North.  It let the senior women revisit all they had accomplished in their high school careers and what they could still do to improve themselves for their last months.  As for the freshmen girls, they also seemed to learn as much and a lot [of them] seemed to be interested in what the speakers had to say and hopefully they got an idea [about] what to do and what not to do throughout their years in high school and even life,” said senior Victoria Arechiga.

Isabella Marie Cova