A quote I’m sure you have heard before is, “It’s not what’s outside, but what’s inside that matters.” I’ve always heard it so many times before but I never truly understood, even when I did. As a kid I rarely argued with my mother. If she told me to “sit down and eat,” I wouldn’t even question it. This was true especially when it came to clothes. She decided what I wore, when...

All of us come from all different places, some of us from the other side of the globe, and others from across the street. However we are all cougars, one of our fellow cougars, Guillermo Muñoz, is a foreign exchange student from Spain, he came to Sahuaro for his junior year. Guillermo is like any typical teenage boy, he likes to play the piano, travel, party and is a huge soccer fan (for Madrid...

This is Sarina Streissl's first time out of her native country, Austria, and her second week in Tucson. A new foreign exchange student, Sarina has been placed with a family and their 20-year-old son. Although she's only been here for a short while, she's already getting into American cuisine.  She really enjoys eating the pizza, she explained that "they do have pizza in Austria but the pizza here...

Hearing is a precious thing. Especially when you work with music, have a passion for it, and attend school full time. My name is Caleb Pendleton, and I live with a hearing loss. My whole life I've had to wear hearing aids, which means that I grew up not hearing like everyone else. My hearing has always been severely damaged and because of that, it opened up a new world of being hard of hearing. I...

 Q: What did you do over Winter Break? A: I went to my cousin's house all break and partied! Q: What are your New Year's Resolutions? A: To find love, which so far I haven’t found. Q: What are your plans for after high school? A: Travel the world with my friends and experiment with different cultures. Q: What kind of music do you listen to? And what artists? A: I like basically...

Iraq, 7,528 miles from Tucson Arizona (Yes, I looked it up.). Seems incredibly far - this country is imagined to be so different from the United States. But who really knows how Iraq is? At Sahuaro a junior named Mariam Shaabo was born in Iraq and lived there for the first 10 years of her life. When she turned ten, her family decided to move to the United States. Mariam's uncle already lived in...

Otters really look like they're living the life!  They are super cute and very smart, otters are also very chatty. Unfortunately, out of their 13 species, only one seems to be thriving, that species is the North American River Otter. North American River Otters are found mostly in North America and Canada. They are both marine and freshwater animals; they don't really like to hang with humans,...

If you're trying to find ways to lose weight without having to go to a gym, well you're in luck. Here are some daily workout routines you can perform from the comfort of your own home. Before you begin a workout, don't forget to do a warmup - super important. You have to make sure you get your heart rate pumping and your muscles warm. You can stretch, run a little, jump rope, jumping jacks, run...

We are going to condense, confess, and address all the spectacle around 2019's hit eye-shadow pallete - Morphe X James Charles Artistry Pallete. James Charles, a 19 year old social-media influencer, makeup artist, and  Youtuber just recently released his first beauty product with Morphe. From people criticizing the pallet directly or critiquing James indirectly, this pallet has created a stir in...

You spent 365 days allowing yourself to be below average. 2018 was the year you decided to stay below the threshold of success. An entire year wasted...stifling all the creativity and potential you had, to become the person you always wanted to be. All the days you spent on your phone, look up! All the days you watched YouTube, work out! All the days you waited for a sign to go out and start living...here...

The English language is on the top of the list of the most difficult languages to learn. Especially for me, I still struggle with it. English has some odd spelling and pronunciation, like how words look the same but are pronounced differently and many words that sound the same have completely different spelling and meaning. What confuses people the most is how sometimes certain letters are silent....