Three Towers: Student Newspaper from Xavier High School, Micronesia

Three Towers Online is published
every two months by the students of Xavier High School in Chuuk, Micronesia.

Vol. I. Issue I

www.xaviermicronesia.org

November 24, 2006

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Welcome
	Freshmen Entertainment Xavier Cleans Up Chuuk Recycling Rocks Xavier Scarred Up Spirituality ... New Insights Halloween Horror Girls Gathering Junior CSP Website Wonders Math Wars Basketball Bombshell Xavier Day Predictions Most Embarrassing Moment
Xavier students posing for the camera as they are being transported to the site of the annual school picnic. Photo: Nicholas Halter.

News

Features

Picture Perfect Picnic

By Rengel Ueki

The school picnic is a day when all the students at Xavier High School go to the sandy island of Pisiwi for a day of relaxation and a chance to get to know each other better.

On the night before every school picnic, some of the seniors go to the island and get it ready for the coming students the next day. This year the seniors that went were Donny, Michael Mapa, O’Keefe, Amaroy, Victor, Franson and Kevin. They went and cleaned up the place before we came.

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Xavier Students Getting Scarred Up

Tattoos are a major part of the culture of many Pacific islands. From the Maori “Moko” which is designed to both distinguish the wearer from other clans and to intimidate enemies, to the Cambodian “Yantra” tattoo, which is used for spiritual protection, tattoos are sometimes the only thing that many Pacific islands have in common. With this in mind, it is a shame that such and ancient and distinguished tradition has become such a point of conflict within Xavier.

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Sports

Opinions

Basketball Bombshell - Who Can Defeat Us?

By Rengel Ueki

Lately the Xavier Navigators have been beating most of the schools here on Chuuk, FSM and putting on nail-biting performances that have had Xavier crowds going wild on campus.

The girl’s team has never lost to all the teams they have challenged. That is because of the great support of their coach, Jackie T., who has never doubted her team ever since the beginning. They have practiced long and hard ever since the beginning of the basketball season and their reward has always been victory.

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Junior CSP - What do you have to say?

Do you want to know what the Junior CSP was like? Stephanie Ham (FR) went and asked them. Here is what Kristopher, Colleen, Lupe, Michael T. and Thaine (in that order) have to say…

What did you learn at the CSP?
“I learnt to be open to my classmates and trust them “
“I learnt how to cook and how to work together in a group”
“I learnt romance, how to serve others and how to cook salty meat”
“I learnt how to save people and share things to people”
“I learnt how to work and share things to all my classmates”

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Have you visited the Xavier High School website lately? Find out the latest updates on the Xavier Micronesia website including photos, fact sheet, entrance exam scores, WASC reports, alumni profiles, parent resources, and a whole lot more.	What is your most embarrassing moment? "While Freddy was chasing me, I slipped on the field and slid through the girl’s sewerage. I was covered in waste from top to bottom and I lost my glasses in the mud."
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