As the semester begins, and our professors make us give introductions in front of the class, we all have a chance to reflect on our summers. Yet 2024 has proved to be a very interesting year, and we found that our summers were varying levels of strange.
The Scribe Staff share how weird our summers were, from fostering love stories between toys to dancing in front of the Eiffel Tower.
Paul Czarnecki | Editor-in-Chief
The strangest thing I did this summer was sleep through about two whole days. I got out of bed to eat, drink and move, but my bed was my sanctuary.
Nick Smith | Managing Editor
I ended up doing an interview for a story on a golf cart this summer. The person I was interviewing was running a festival, so we were bouncing between various things she had to do during the event. It was both fun and weird.
Ellie Myers | Associate Editor
I worked as a nanny for an 8-year-old this summer, and both of our favorite game was telling the ongoing story of love and devotion between princess Rapunzel and a plastic skeleton named Sir Strawberry. Their pantomime is on hiatus right now, but their love lives on.
Zee O’Donnell | Features Editor
I went to visit my grandma in Florida, and I ended up going to music bingo at a local bar with her neighbors one night. Honestly, trying to guess music from the ‘80s with two senior citizens was the highlight of my summer.
Kate Marlett | Copy Editor
The weirdest thing I did this summer was find a huge, underground Carrefour supermarket in this small beach town in northern France. The city was something straight out of the 1500s — it even had an aging wall to protect from pirates — but that didn’t stop this supermarket from digging out a basement to set up a secret, hard-to-find store. That was so weird.
Livi Davis | Reporter
I got into many cleaning sprees.
Kaylie Foster | Reporter
I went to a Seahawks preseason game. Weird, because I don’t watch football, and the Seahawks are one of my least favorite teams.
Noah March | Reporter
Probably doing the Dougie in front of the Eiffel Tower.
Syanna Santiago-Smith | Reporter
The weirdest thing I did this summer was probably work in a weird candy shop in downtown Colorado Springs.