![After placing second in their respective LDEs at the Capital District contest in early November, freshman Jesus Jaramillo-Gallegos and freshman Wyatt Pickett will compete at the Area XII LDE contest in Georgetown on Nov. 23. Jaramillo-Gallegos is competing in Greenhand Spanish Creed Speaking, while Pickett’s LDE is Greenhand Creed Speaking. “Honestly, [I’m excited for] just traveling around, maybe meeting more people,” Jaramillo-Gallegos said. “And [I’m] nervous about probably just not being able to define my weak areas. I feel like I did decent for my first time ever doing this. I just think it’s fun.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Navy-and-Yellow-Simple-Group-Project-Presentation-1200x675.png)
![Holding up T-wolves, the tour group poses for a picture in the Chinese classroom. Sophomore Lydia Ou, junior Phu Trung and senior Yushan Pan gave a tour to Taiwanese diplomat Andrea Yang on Nov. 8. “I was so excited when I heard I would get to give the tour because it’s a big deal,” Ou said. “She’s from the US embassy for Taiwan, so she’s really important. I’m so privileged [to get this opportunity] and I’m so excited.” Photo by Skyler King](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Main-Taiwan.jpg)
![Sitting at a desk past the rows of books laid out for the Book Fair, senior Kimberley Walters assists people in purchasing books and finding titles. The Book Fair is taking place Dec. 16 through Dec. 20, and is an annual event during which students and faculty have the opportunity to go and purchase books and other trinkets in the library. Kimberley said she encourages all to go to the Book Fair, even if they think they don’t like to read. “If you make reading something that is fun for you and you find the things that you like to read, it will never be a chore,” Walters said. “So [the Book Fair is] a good opportunity to find something that will respark your want to read [like] when you were a child and you went to the book fair and you loved the ‘I survived’ books. Maybe you'll find your ‘I survived’ books of your high school experience, and it'll re-spark that kind of love for reading that may have died out.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Addie-L-47-1200x800.jpg)
![Smiling at the camera, sophomore Olivia Mahlmeister and seniors Samantha Jameson, Adhit Eswaramoorthi and Justin Khadavi celebrate completing first chamber in the Congress Meet. All four students advanced to the final chamber. “Out of the 20 kids in the final chamber, we had a seventh, ninth, 11th and 13th, and they took the top four to move on to state,” AP US History and Debate teacher Josh Marsh said. “[Even though] we didn't make state this year, all four of them moving on [and] placing is phenomenal.” Photo courtesy of Josh Marsh](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-Regional-Congress-Team.jpg)
![Standing in front of a small audience, senior Kimberley Walters shares a social criticism poem titled “Pity the Nation” by Lawrence Felinghetti. Every month, sponsored by the poetry club, the library hosts a poetry reading. “I never thought I would be interested in [poetry readings] because I’m not the biggest poetry fan,” Walters said. “I think poetry is a very succinct way to express feelings and get a story across. Whereas lots of books have a span of a whole story, but it’s put in a lot of words. The power of poetry is that you can be so succinct within, and there’s a lot of power within the words that are used.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/KIM-1200x800.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)
![Holding the Grand Nationals trophies, drum majors Helashi Wijayawardhana, Abigail Pettey and Eddy Kim pose for a photo. The BOA Grand Nationals competition took place in Indianapolis on Nov. 14-17. “My favorite thing was just looking back at the field, and I was like, ‘Oh, crap. I know all of their names, I know who all of them are’,” Wijayawardahana said. “It's just insane to me that I was able to make so many connections. [Being a drum major] taught me how to build relationships with people who I’m not really that similar to, and how to juggle a ton of things all together.”
Photo courtesy of CPHS Band SmugMug](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/AJC.GrandNatsFinals-169-1200x801.jpg)
![Delicately placing the string to form the shape of a cornucopia, seniors Haley Burton and Avery Nelson create the November arrangement for the Flower of the Month Club. This club is led by Advanced Floral Design Students and provides a monthly arrangement to community members who subscribe to receive them. “I think flower of the month club is a really impactful way to show your loved ones ‘hey I really care about you,’ or even if they’re just for yourself, they’re a little pick-me-up throughout the month that [say] ‘I’m doing ok, and these flowers make my day a little bit brighter,” Nelson said. “I like giving people flowers because people value the flowers more and they value themselves more.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Ava-Holmes-3-edit.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)
![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)
![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)
What’s the Lineup?
Crumbl’s New Weekly Menu contains Five Different Cookies Every Week
The newest Crumbl location has made it easy to pick up the weekly menu. The lineup for the first week of May is pictured: Pink Velvet Cupcake, Hazelnut Mudslide ft. Nutella, Mom’s Favorite and Mango Frozen Yogurt. My favorite out of them all would have to be the Pink Velvet Cupcake. The perfect cookie to frosting ratio easily placed it in my top five Crumbl cookies. The slight strawberry flavor gives the cookie a nice flavor profile overall, and the buttercream frosting creates the most perfect cookie.
May 13, 2022
The first time I ate Crumbl was one of the best days of my life. It was the Valentine’s Day lineup which consisted of Birthday Cake, Chocolate Caramel, Sugar and Chocolate Strawberry Cheesecake cookies. If you’ve never had a Crumbl cookie you should know that they are huge and very dense. So, those four cookies lasted me an entire week. Another thing that Crumbl newbies should know; the menu, or ‘lineup’, changes every week except the Chocolate chip cookie, which is their anchor cookie that never changes. Five new cookies are introduced every Sunday, then are sold Monday through Saturday.
The new lineups don’t disappoint of course. With a new Crumbl location opening up right off of Whitestone, it’s almost too easy to get my hands on Crumbl. This has led to me getting Crumbl every week since my first time. I also have filmed Crumbl reviews for my private Snap story in the past, so just know I have experience in Crumbl reviews and you’ll get my 100% honesty.
Pink Velvet Cupcake
This was the first cookie that caught my eye out of the entire lineup. The pale pink cookie with white buttercream swirl on top looked so good. And it was the first cookie I tried. After taking my first bite, all I could do was close my eyes and enjoy the flavor. There was a faint hint of strawberry, which was delicious. The cookie itself reminded me of a strawberry shortcake in a way. It’s honestly one of my favorite Crumbl cookies I’ve ever had. There was a perfect balance in flavor between the frosting and cookie base itself. I had literally zero complaints. Whenever they put Pink Velvet back on the menu, just know I’ll be first in line to buy it. I give this cookie a 10/10.
Mom’s Recipe
Let me preface this review with the fact that I don’t really like peanut butter. I found this cookie to be incredibly boring. It’s basically a chocolate chip cookie with peanut butter chips and toffee pieces added in. While I did enjoy the chocolate chips and toffee, the peanut butter flavor overpowered the entire cookie. And I ended up with a very sweet, chewy peanut butter cookie. The sea salt sprinkled on top was a nice touch, but I could barely taste it due to the peanut butter. I’m sure peanut butter lovers would eat this cookie up, but it’s not for me. I give it a 4/10.
Lemon Glaze
I’ve loved citrus flavored things since I was little, from lemonade, to lemon bars and even the lemon-lime syrup at the Kona Ice truck. So it was no surprise to me that I liked this cookie so much. With the cookie itself being lemon flavored and the glaze, as well, there was no way to miss the lemony tang. The lemon slice on top was also a cute touch. It reminded me of the lemonade cookies that the girl scouts sell, but more dense of course. There wasn’t a lot of depth though, which kept this cookie out of my top ten. It only had one dimension, and that dimension was lemon. I give this cookie a 6/10.
Mango Frozen Yogurt
I was honestly so excited for this cookie, you have no idea. First of all, I love fro-yo and second, I love mangos. So I expected this to be the perfect cookie for me. But I was given false hope. This cookie was the worst Crumbl cookie I’d ever had. The cookie itself was alright, it tasted slightly fruity with little to no flavor. But the frosting is what got to me, it was so bad. The texture was very gritty, it made me feel like I was chewing on a mixture between chapstick and toothpaste. The flavor wasn’t very good either, basically a creamy watered down mango. I was honestly so upset that I didn’t like this cookie, but with that said I give it a 2/10.
Hazelnut Mudslide ft. Nutella
If you were to ask me the age old question ‘Chocolate or Vanilla?’ I’d answer with vanilla. That gives you a little insight on how much I liked this cookie. While I didn’t dislike it, there wasn’t anything for me to love either. I found this cookie to be boring too, but at least the texture was good. With the roasted hazelnuts on the outside of the cookie and the dollop of Nutella in the middle. The cookie itself was very straight forward, there was hazelnuts and chocolate, that’s it. It wasn’t my favorite cookie, but it wasn’t horrible, so I give it a 4/10.
I plan on continuing my journey of being a Crumbl connoisseur for years to come. I’ll never forget my first Crumbl, and I’ll look forward to the new lineup every week. If you’re ever wondering what the current week’s lineup is, you can ask me. Because it’s likely I already have it memorized.
