![The cross country team poses for the camera after finishing the district meet. The varsity boys, JV boys and JV girls all placed third and the varsity girls placed fourth. “Coach put in the right training for us for this season, so I think we will be peaking this week and the next couple of weeks,” varsity runner and junior Nathan Kukla said. “The chances of making it to state are very high, but we don’t settle for the lowest and there is always going to be that chance, so [we] race for the best.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Heidi-831-1200x900.jpg)
![Sucking in a breath of air, freshman Lily Pope competes in the 200 yard individual medley. On Oct. 25, the swim team competed in the AISD Swim Invitational. Overall, the girls team took second place and the boys team came in eleventh. “My favorite stroke is butterfly because I do the best in that stroke,” Pope said. “I feel like [butterfly] can test how [your ability] to convince yourself to keep going. The hardest part of swimming is convincing yourself to stay strong and keep pushing during a hard race [when] everything is tired.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/POPE-1200x804.jpg)
![Smiling at the camera, Author Ehigbor Okosun, members of Page Turners, and other students reflect on the author's visit. “I thought the visit was great,” Senior Amia De Leon said. “It was interesting talking to her and [getting to know] her process and her thoughts and books in general. But I think the reason it went well [was that] people got to ask questions. I'm glad that she said so much in response to the questions and it wasn't just one and done. [The author’s responses] felt very articulate.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Sebastian-5-1200x800.jpg)
![Standing in front of the field at a freshman football game, cheerleader freshman Jacob Gaudreau along with teammate freshman Bella Gibson pose for a photo during halftime of game. “[Cheer has] definitely given me a much more outgoing personality,” Gaudreau said. “I used to be very introverted, so it's definitely made me more extroverted towards people.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ingrid-204-1200x800.jpg)
![Holding a wooden pizza toy, senior Taylor Peterson plays with small children in Bucaramanga, Colombia. During the summer, Peterson traveled to Colombia to help build an elementary school that only had two classrooms but five or six grades with one teacher. “We add[ed] two more classrooms,” Peterson said. “It’s kind of hard when you have two or three grades in one classroom and you only have one teacher. It’s very hard to actually get some beneficial learning. [The extra classrooms will give the students] a better quality of education because they’ll actually have a place specific for their learning.” Photo by Taylor Peterson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Taylor-P.png)
![Swinging with his arm extended, senior Nolan Park hits the ball smoothly over the net and to the opponent’s side. Park is one of four varsity tennis captains and helped the team win district championships. “Winning district champs was a pretty awesome feeling,” Park said. “We had lost to Liberty Hill a couple of weeks before, but when we played them [again], we came out and really took care of business. We took them out and it was just a really awesome night.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kassidy-419.jpg)
![Standing proud, varsity senior athletes Rafael Escobar, Griffin Jacobs, Jakob Martin, and juniors Jackson Springer and Jack Morris pose with their newly earned medals. The varsity team finished third out of 14 teams on Sept. 25. “The team's primary goal is to win the district championship,” head coach Cody Price said. "We're confident that with our action plan in place, we can accomplish this mission. [For the next tournament], our preparation involves assessing our strengths and weaknesses, celebrating milestones and creating individual development plans." Photo courtesy of Cody Price](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/golf.jpg)
No, It Isn’t Romantic
Why I Didn’t Like Rebel Wilson’s New Movie
I walked into the movie with high expectations and I was disappointed.
February 20, 2019
Let me get right to the point, “Isn’t it Romantic” was an okay movie. It’s wasn’t bad, but there wasn’t anything that I truly loved. There are some spoilers below, so if you want to see the film, I wouldn’t read this yet.
The movie is directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson, who is the director of the “Final Girls” movie as well. It stars Rebel Wilson (Natalie), an architect who doesn’t believe in love, Adam Devine (Josh), Natalie’s best friend, Liam Hemsworth (Blake), a client for the company Natalie works for and Priyanka Chopra (Isabella), a yoga ambassador and swimsuit model.
As mentioned, Natalie doesn’t believe in love, and especially hates cliché romantic comedies. After an altercation in the subway, she ends up in the hospital and suddenly wakes up in a romantic comedy universe.
Now, I think I would have enjoyed the movie if there was truly something unique about it. When Natalie rants to her assistant Whitney (Betty Gilpin) earlier in the movie, she points out every single cliché in rom-coms. To my disappointment, everything she mentioned happens later in the movie, in her rom-com universe. There were no surprises, and to be honest, the plot was plain and boring. I understand that the whole point of the movie was to showcase the clichés, but I feel that they could have included other plot elements to make the movie interesting. Also, there’s a parking garage analogy that related to her situation of self-doubt and not loving herself like she should, but to me, it was forced.
Although it wasn’t my favorite movie, I did like some parts of it. I liked the comedy; it was very much Wilson’s style of comedy, similar to her character in “Pitch Perfect.” I also liked the musical numbers, and my favorite one was the karaoke to “Dance with Somebody.” The lighting, background music and different cinematography styles and techniques used were really well done.
The movie runtime is 88 minutes and is rated PG-13, with minor references of drug use and sexual references. You can see it at AMC, Cinemark, Alamo Drafthouse and other local theaters.
My rating is two out of five rom-coms.
