Ariane Omerza is a senior at Batavia High School. She has participated in the school’s band, choir, madrigals, marching band, jazz band, pit orchestra for musicals, and percussion ensemble. Recently, she was a section leader in marching band and attended the Blue Lake International program summer after her freshman and sophomore year. Blue Lake International […]

By Carly Cutrara The airplane rumbles as the wheels touchdown after a 9-hour flight. All the rainbow colored airport signs are in Spanish and everyone in the surrounding areas is speaking Spanish rapidly. Julie Johnson and her group of 45 people composed of students and chaperones who are dressed in shorts and t-shirts parade through […]