 Jason Bach ’25 prepares for another jersey day by wearing his country’s colors. Bach is from Vietnam, and he is playing varsity soccer this fall. “I’m wearing this jersey because it’s senior night for the soccer team tomorrow,” Bach said. “I want to express my love for my favorite sport and my home country by wearing a Vietnamese soccer jersey.” Due to the cancellation of the Powderpuff Game during the Homecoming week, the exciting second jersey day for Upper school is taking place this week. Although there are not as many people wearing jerseys compared to the first jersey day, Jason’s bright red soccer jersey from Vietnam impresses everyone. Bach lives in Boxley Building in downtown Roanoke, but you can’t even see him in the building before 8 p.m. every weekday. The reason behind it is he always goes to the gym to do lifting after every soccer practice, day after day. This spirit of hard work makes his soccer skills better and better, and his body stronger and stronger. “I’m already in my senior year of high school this year,” Bach said, “I hope that I can face life and soccer with my fullest mental state and draw a successful conclusion for my high school career.”
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 As the sky gradually darkens on an October evening, Carter Smith ‘25, Aleksa Zivanov ‘27, Thomas Greer ‘25, Charlie Zhao ‘26, and Hanchen Ou ‘26 from North Cross School set out on a journey to eat delicious food. North Cross school gathers students from 13 different countries all around the world, it is precisely because of this situation that students from North Cross have the opportunity to try each other’s hometown delicacies. K-Pot is a restaurant that offers a hot pot buffet, and hot pot is very famous in Asia. Carter Smith ‘25 is a student from Canada, and he is very interested in Asian food, so he decided to give it a shot. “How should I cook the meat in the hot pot?” Smith asked. Smith’s questions are the most common question for the people who are eating hot pot for the first time. Charlie Zhao ‘26 is from China, he taught Smith how to eat hot pot step by step. “You need to put the meat into the hot pot first,” Zhao said. “You may eat the meat when the meat changes color.” Smith put the meat into the hot pot as Zhao said, and picked out the meat after it changed color. “It tastes so good,” Smith said, “I never ate meat in this way in my life, but it actually impressed me.” After Smith’s first bite, he just couldn’t stop eating. “I like hot pot so much,” Smith said, “what else can I say at this point, Food knows no border…” Photo by Thomas Greer ‘25.  While the bell is ringing in the hallway, we walk into English and Government teacher Brett Odom’s classroom for the activity period for our summer reading novel The Hound of Baskervilles. Odom welcomed us with his bright smile as always. Odom told us that we are going to act out some of the plots in The Hound of Baskervilles. Kevin Tran’ 26 is a new student at NCS, and he told Odom that he didn’t read the book during summer. Odom understands the difficulty of summer reading for international students, so he started to guide Tran step by step. “This activity went way better than I expected,” Tran said, “I was afraid of getting in trouble by not reading the book, but Odom’s behavior made me feel very comfortable about it.” Odom gave Tran the character of Sir Henry, and explained to him what he needs to do in the reenactment. I could see that Tran was overwhelmed in the beginning, but Odom used his passionate performance to make Tran start to enjoy the acting process. He changed from just reading the text to starting to use his body language. Time flies, and the class is over. Tran seems still immersed in the character, and couldn't get out. “I hope we can have another activity like this soon in the future,” Tran said.
 This year is my first summer in the United States, and this invitation to the National Baseball showcase can summarize my summer best among a lot of great memories. I went to Duke University for the baseball try out. I tried my best on the field and performed really well during the game. Afterwards, good news came to me. I got selected to the National Baseball Showcase, and this event is only for the top baseball players all around the United States. Someone from the staff of the showcase said, “ You are the first Chinese person to get this invitation.,” I was shocked after I learned this information. I sent this picture to my parents in China as soon as I got it. They gave me great encouragement as feedback. I think the encouragement from my parents is my greatest motivation to move forward because they are the most important people in my life. I’m glad I was invited by the organization, and I’m so excited to play and perform myself at an MLB stadium as the first Chinese baseball player later this fall.
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