Gary Hargreaves recently moved from London, England to Austin, Texas to be with his wife in her home town. He received his green card three months ago and wants to learn as much as possible about American culture before applying for citizenship in three years.

Hargreaves’s wife, Cary Bell, is producing a television show about how to become a typical American. It is going to be based on Hargreaves’s experiences traveling from Texas to Alaska and Hawaii to New York to learn about different regions and traditions.

For the episode based on Texas, Hargreaves and his wife decided to have him accomplish barbecuing and learning to play high school football.

When I start at Brigham Young University in the fall, I am going to be ahead of the game. And I am not just talking about credits. Even though I have taken 11 advanced placement courses during high school, it is not the calculus or world history I have learned that I think will give me the biggest advantage. It is really the things I have learned about myself, others and the learning process itself that have prepared me most for the college experience.

Growing up, I had a football mentality.  From the time I was 5 years old, I breathed and ate the sport of football.  Instead of watching cartoons, I watched Sportscenter.  In my playing years, I had the heart, but unfortunately never had the God-given talent.  God had a purpose for everything I went through in high school, and He is not finished with me yet.

As a freshman, high school felt like a new and exciting experience, with many faces that I had grown to know in my two years at Strack Intermediate, as well as many fresh faces that I would come to be very close to. But there was one person who had attended Strack with me for those two years that I had never met, never seen and only heard of a handful of times. Fall semester of freshman year in Mrs. Franks’ English class I met Jordan Yost, who would grow to be one of my best friends.

On Thursday, May 20 choir held their annual pop show. According to junior Hannah Thomas, this special event showcased various talents.

“Pop show is an opportunity to show off your voice, how much you’ve grown between the years and to have fun with the music,” Thomas said.