Student Council Open Meeting!

Hey Sulli! Want to know more about how Student Council runs and how the club plans for events? This Tuesday (April 28) in B206, the club is holding an open meeting! Anyone curious about the club can come!

Some info:
Student Council is a club dedicated to helping the school be a more fun, enjoyable place. This club is a great way to learn leadership skills, meet new people and get volunteer hours. This club, however, requires an application which is sent out at the beginning of the year in order to ensure that members are dedicated to the club. All this, however, is worth everything. Here, the Student Council club becomes a giant family and is a great place to make memories!

The open meeting will take place during lunch, so make sure to bring a lunch that day so you can get in early! A lot of people are going to the meeting and you want to get good seats, so try to get to B206 as fast as you can on Tuesday.

During the meeting, Student Council may be talking about some events coming up (*cough cough* THE CARNIVAL *cough cough*) so make sure to bring some ideas that you can contribute to the meeting! The President, Sana Fatima, is a very friendly person so if you have any questions or ideas, be sure to talk to her!

If you want a piece of the action, be sure to pass by on Tuesday!



What are you looking forward to in the Open Meeting? What kind of things will you want to talk about?

Spirit Week Coming Up! Any ideas?

Hey Sulli! Next month, the school's final Spirit Week is coming up! This is the week that students get to show their school spirit by dressing up for the planned days. The Newspaper Club is wondering what you want to want for Spirit Week!

Are you a fan of the classic pajama day? Or do you want to make it Halloween all over again by dressing up for Halloween Day? How about something different?

Let us know!

Multicultural Week!

Hey Sulli! As you know, this week is Multicultural Week! This is the time of the year the Sullivan Heights celebrates the many cultures that are housed in our school. In order to best celebrate these unique cultures and traditions, Student Council has seperated the 4 day week into a variety of days!

Games Day

Every country around the world has it's own games or activities that children and adults alike take part in in order to pass the time. In the Hub, there will be a large variety of games featured such as the ever popular Chinese Hacky Sack, Origami and Henna stations as well as a fun guessing game! - Can you guess what each country is based on the flags given to you?

Dress-up Day

Each region of the world, from the tip of the east to the end of the west, has it's own flare of clothing. Dress-up Day is your chance to show off your culture's beautiful gowns, suits or garments. Don't have anything particularly special to wear? Then come to the Hub, put on a hula skirt and take pics with your pals in a Hawaii-like setting! Pics can then be sent to you and your buddies for memory's sake!

Food Day

Needless to say that each country has it's own unique food. Make and enjoy fine teas as you like them in our Tea Station, try the delicacies from the east as well as European and South-East Asian sweets like Crème Puffs, Gulab Jamun and many more! Make sure to bring money that day!

Performance Day

Finally, on Performance Day we'll have Sullivan's Bhangra team perform along with fantastic singers singing songs in their country's language. Performances are in the Hub, so make sure to get something to eat, relax and enjoy the show!

What are you looking forward to? The games, clothes, food or performances? Let us know!

Captain America: The Winter Soldier Review

♪ When Captain America throws his mighty shieldAll those who chose to oppose his shield must yield
When he's lead to a fight to a fight and a duel is due
The red and the white and the blue comes through
When Captain America throws his mighty shield! ♫

(Check out the Captain America 1960's cartoon theme! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVU4HURKEXs)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier came out just recently, getting fairly high scores from reviewers and being a box office hit. Seeing the movie just recently with my super hero junky friends (and awesome brother), I was stoked to go into a packed show full of fans. Personally I feel I got the most out of my free movie ticket (Merry Christmas!) but I'm not going to lie. There's a lot going on here. I'll give you a quick, spoiler-free rundown of the movie as well as my opinion of it. As well, I will not be using a scoring system. Personally, I find that movies are only as good as the person who watches them. (For example, one of my friends hated Hunger Games and one of my teachers hated the Titanic.) Some movies just don't please people. So I will just be outlining the main Pros and Cons of the movie, leaving you to decide which outweight which.

Rundown
The movie takes place after the Avengers. Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Cap'n 'Murica, continues to work for S.H.I.E.L.D.. After a brief GSP cameo with some wicked amazing French (the Cap can speak French... Well, I know who I like now) we're shown Rogers questioning whether or not he wants to stay a hero. It also doesn't help that S.H.I.E.L.D is being reeeally secretive lately. Before viewers know it, things start going out of control and the main conflict of the movie shows: Freedom vs. Security. Not to reveal much, things kinda get turned on their head with trust issues and intel gathering and the whole spiel. I'd write more, but the entire thing is basically a plot twist after another, so feel free to research elsewhere.

Pros:
- Movie is a solid experience! All the fight scenes were fluid and well choreographed and action junkies will NOT be disappointed.
- Cameos are as colourful as ever! We have Canadian MMA fighter George-St Pierre playing Batroc the Leaper; an experienced thief and smuggler, as well as the always loved Stan Lee. Plus, yay! Black Widow! Yay! Agent lady! Yay! Old characters!
- Actors continue to fulfill their roles well!
- The introduction to the Cap's new friend, the Falcon, is great with him showing off a magnificent wing suit (probably the coolest thing ever next to Portal's Portal Guns)
- Villains are very clever and are definately who you wouldn't expect.

- The Black Widow plays a major role in this film, contributing to the Captain's trust issues and trying to convince him that he can trust his fellow Avenger pal. (Plus they have an awesome intel gathering scene which leads to the movie's biggest plot twist)
- There are major "Oh my God no that can't be what, why, how?!" moments in the movie, which is VERY fulfilling in a twisted kind of way.
- Tons of "Ha! Take that!" moments when the good guys get the baddies.
- References to the previous movie will be well appreciated by fans, especially when we see what happened to Peggy Carter; Steve Rogers' gal, and Rogers' old training base. Even those who didn't see he first movie will be given a saving grace in a scene where Steve Rogers' goes to a museum exhibit dedicated to him; which conveniently talks about all the tough stuff he's been through.

Cons

 - The main problem, in my opinion, is that Winter Soldier was too serious. Unlike the Avengers, there aren't that many, in my opinion, funny or fun moments in this movie. And when those tiny little snippets of fun come in, BOOM. Time to get back to the serious. I understand that the whole movie revolves
around "who can I trust, I can't trust anybody" but even the Avengers, with almost the same kind of premise, had fun humour here and there
- Tying into the point above, comic booky one liners are cute but, eh. Also, Rogers makes a joke about all his buddies being dead... Dark.
- Even though the Black Widow plays a major role, sometimes I felt that she kinda... got dimmed down a bit. Remember how in the Avengers she took on Bruce Banner by herself (kinda) in human and Hulk form? And how she tricked Loki into telling her his plans? Yeah, she's getting her own movie, but I kinda feel like she became more mild... Maybe that one's just me.

So, are you excited about the Captain's new movie? Did you see it? How do you feel about the movie? Let us know in the comments below!