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Friday Funday S2E7 - Looking Back, Looking Ahead

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YouTube / wcchsd94tv
Date
2025-05-21
Location
DuPage County, IL
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1,507 words · about 9 min
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2026-06-05

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001Wildcats, we made it. It's the final Friday funday of the year. Final last full day of school. Exams start tomorrow. We're going to check in with our students, find out what their highlight of the year is and what they're looking forward to next year. Wildcats, final Friday funday of the year. All right, we're looking back on the year. It's the final day of school. What's been a highlight of the year? What are you looking forward to next year? First of all, who am I here with? Noah. I'm a junior. Maggie, I'm a sophomore. We got Noah and Maggie, junior and sophomore. Just got off the bus. Looking back, what's been the highlight of your junior year? Just coming to school, meeting new friends, going to football games. Really great time. Really good time. Good. Had

002a good junior year, then you'd say, Maggie, highlights of your sophomore year. Probably getting better grades than I did in uh freshman year and doing better on finals. Turn it around academically. Did better. That's always a good thing. What are you looking forward to senior year? Being a pomboy. Being a pomboy. Great goal for all seniors. Looking forward to seeing you out on that football field. Maggie, what are you looking forward to junior year? Uh taking forensic science. She She's done well academically this year. Next year she gets to take an elective with forensic science. Have a great senior year. Have a great junior year. The final Friday of the year. Sure. Sure. Okay. Who am I here with? Leah Belosa. What was your highlight of the school year? Ooh. Um, probably the football games.

003Being in the student section. Yeah. What was your favorite theme that we did this year? Ooh, I liked the white lies. No, I like the Minions. What are you looking forward to next year? You're going to be an upper classman junior next year. What are you looking forward to? I don't even know. Nothing. I'm scared. You're scared? Yes. Scared to be an upper classman. No. Scared of junior year. Scared of junior year. What are you scared about? Junior year is very important. That's what they tell us. Yeah. They say junior year is really important. But, you know, if uh you've done well your first two years, I'm sure you'll do great next year, too. Thank you. Best of luck. You too. All right. Wildcats. I have a gaggle of students here. Who am I here

004with? Lincoln Jeffrey, AJ Evans, Jordano, Matthew Gomez, Juan Castillo, Ricardo Horado. What was your highlight of the year? Probably just going to playoffs again for football. A shout out to Jasmine. Watching Jasmine hit 2,000 points. The homecoming football game. Go back to the playoffs for football. I'm going back to the playoffs. Prom. What are you looking forward to next year as seniors, juniors, and a soon to be sophomore? I'm just ready for football to start back up again. Just focus on my grades more. Pay attention in class. Hey kids, do your homework. I'm ready for football. Ready for football. I'm ready to get back into wrestling. Senior year. Coach Chavez, we got a lot of football players ready for you. People excited for senior year. People ready to focus academically. It's going to be a

005great summer and a great year next year. Wildcats, Friday, final Friday funday of the year. That's hard to say. Final Friday funday of the year. All right, Wildcats, we're looking back and we're looking forward. Who am I here with? Anthony. Anthony, what year in school are you? Freshman. All right. What was your highlight of the freshman year? Oh, the football varsity games. Going to the football games. What was your favorite theme dressing up? The minion theme. Second time that's been mentioned today. People love the minions. Got through freshman year. That's the toughest one to get through. You ready to be a sophomore? What are you looking forward to next year as a sophomore? Not being a freshman. Who am I here with? Isel Craft. Isabelle, what year in school are you? I'm a freshman. What

006has been the highlight of your freshman year? I feel like it has to be like the football games. What are you looking forward to next year? What What are you looking forward to sophomore year? Probably for like the new teachers and able to do more stuff cuz like I'm older, I guess, for one more year. So, she's looking forward to meeting some new teachers, doing some more things around school. Have a great summer. Good luck sophomore year. You too. Interested in Friday Funday? Would you like to be on Friday Funday? Thank you. All right, Wild Cats. I'm here with Miles Desi. What year in school are you, Miles? I am a junior soon. Yeah. And that's the theme of today's show. What was the highlight of your junior year and what are you looking forward

007to becoming a senior? I really enjoyed TCD. I did uh auto tech this year. So next year I'm also looking forward to TCD but also kind of you know being the oldest of the school. Have like an influence on you know the younger grades. So it'll be kind positive influence. An influence. Have a great summer Miles. Thank you. You too. All right Wild Cats. I'm here with Dar. What year in school are you? Dari freshman. Freshman. What was the highlight of your freshman year? Probably getting good grades in my classes. Great job. Way to start off on the right foot. What are you looking forward to? Becoming a sophomore. Maybe just getting around the school and knowing everything already. Well, have a good summer and I think you're going to do really well sophomore year.

008Hopefully. What has been the highlight of your junior year? I'm really excited for the German exchange in like a week. You're going to Germany in a week? I'm going to Germany. Nice. Dona Shane. Thanks, Avery. Of course. All right, Wild Cats. I'm here with Olivia Zurko. Olivia Helmaniac. Two Olivia's. Okay. Emily G. Emma Gilbert. We got two Olivia. An Emily and an Emma. We're looking back on the year and then looking ahead to next year. What was your highlight of this year and what are you looking forward to next year as junior? Oh, that's a hard question. Come back. We'll come back to you, Olivia. Olivia, too. Um, maybe going to the zoo for child development, too. Um, I had a lot more opportunities this year, like being a roar mentor, and I went on

009a lot more field trips. So, yeah. I like the Spanish field trip when we went down to the city and ate at that one restaurant. I forgot what it was called. Cafe Baba Baba Aria. And then we got to see like the salsa dancers. It was so fun. I'll say making new friends. Making new friends. Are any of these new friends standing around us right now? No, I've known them since kindergarten, unfortunately. What are you looking forward to next year as juniors? Having fun and not breaking any bones? Probably like a wrestling season and also just being a year closer to graduating. Probably next fall because it's marching band, flag football, and hopefully I'll be hosting a Spaniard. Probably football season. and also just being a upper classman now and just in general. Have a

010great summer, guys. Looking forward to seeing you in the fall for junior year. It's the last day of school. We're looking back and looking ahead. What are you looking forward to being seniors? Just like the last of everything like like last first day. Yeah. The last homecoming. Yeah. Last the last prompt, everything. Yeah. Last final exam. Especially those pep club. Pep club. You get to be a pep club member. Make sure you join that Google classroom soon. They're going to be uh starting meetings in the summer. Leah, what do you look forward to? Also pep club. Also pep club. What are you looking forward to next year? Being juniors. You're going to be upper classman. Prom. Prom. You get to go to prom as a junior. Prom. She's taking all my answers. Anybody want to

011be on the final Friday funday of the year? Final Friday of the year. Good. Okay. Season finale of Friday funday. Anybody want to be on the season finale of Friday funday? Season finale of Friday fun. Want to be on the season finale? Was freshman year fun. Yeah. Very fun. Went by fast. It does go by fast, doesn't it? You start in August. Next thing you know, bam, it's man. It's over. Are these gray guys going to make me pale? Being here by 7:55 a.m. is overrated. Ava, do you have a first hour class? Um, I do. Okay. You are very [Applause] [Music] late. kids movie growing up. Tangled too as well. Like Tangled as well. Not Tangle Two. I was like, I wasn't familiar with Tangle Two. Can you show us a punt here? Yeah,

012sure. Snap Hawk. Left footed punt. Bad punt. What do you like about Thanksgiving? Definitely not the turkey. I think I like the mashed potatoes more. Mashed potatoes. Gravy on the mashed potatoes. No. No. Straight mashed potatoes. No gravy. Interesting choice. [Laughter] Cranberry. It's not cranberry something salty. Nobody says this. Next one. So you're telling me I'm out of date? Okay. This is like precoid time vernacular. It's already out of style. Understood the assignment. It's like you're picking up what somebody else is putting down. We are here at Ker McGee. We are 0.25 miles away from school. It's about a lap around the track, but on a day like today, it might feel a little colder. We're going to pick up a few more kids here, get them back over to school. Neil Diamond. Ever heard

013of Neil Diamond? No. No. Ask your parents. Maybe your grandparents actually Oh, what is that? H O R. H O R. Okay, there it is. Nope. That a way too far. Why would anybody shoot for me? We've had a long winter. It's gloomy, cold, rainy. How you guys doing? We're checking in on our students today. Just doing a well-being check, seeing how you guys are doing this part of the school year. I'm doing good, but I'm a little tired. Who reigns supreme for you? Is it Wildcat athletics activities or dead? Um, done. Done. The 4C Cinderella story. You called it, professor. You said we're going to see a Cinderella story. We have How many shoulders? How many times have you provide Oh, her crown is blowing away into the That's okay. We're going to We're

014just going to continue on. We'll get it out of the trees later. Wildcats, thanks for the memories. It's been so good getting to share some of your thoughts throughout the year on Friday Funday. Good luck on finals. Have a great summer. We'll see you in the fall. [Music]

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