Grandview Weekend Secrets Revealed

GHHS News

Grandview Weekend Secrets Revealed

Natalie Webb- September 30, 2011

The story of why GHHS students don’t want to go back to school on Monday.

Have you ever had a parent ask you what you do over the weekend? Or ever wondered what other GHHS students do over the weekend? Grandview students give The Word exclusive interviews about the exciting weekend activities they participate in.

Sophomore football player Tim Murphy told The Word about his normal Friday night in Grandview. He said, “Well during the fall I play football, winter and spring if I don’t have a basketball game I usually hang out with my friends.”

Murphy said that there are plenty of restaurants around town that he and his friends go to often. Local restaurants like Graffiti Burger, Chipotle, Noodles & Company and even a pharmacy/convenient stores like CVS Pharmacy attract many crowds around town. Students can grab a quick bite to eat without walking forever to get there.

When asked if he spends his nights with the same people or if the group changes from week to week, he responded that he has a big group of friends, as well as a small group of best friends, and that it just depends on what everyone is doing on that day.

Mia Bell, a junior at GHHS agrees that if her weekends depend on sporting events or school functions that her or her friends participate in. “If it’s not football season and I don’t have any sporting events myself I just get together with a bunch of my friends and party all night,” she said.

Bell also mentioned that the group she spends her nights with definitely changes because it all depends on what’s going on around town on that particular day. Being such a small town, it’s easy to run into other students around Grandview over the weekend, whether they’re walking the streets at night or cruising around in a car!

Most people would agree that turning 16 and getting a driver’s license changes a lot of things that a student does in high school. After recently receiving her license, Mia reflects on the change. “Well having my license gives me more freedom but since I’m a cool kid I was usually in a car with an upperclassman, but now having it myself also makes it so I have to drive others around.”

The freshman and sophomores that are too young to have a license or chose not to get a license experience a different lifestyle over the weekends in Grandview. Sophomores Tim Murphy and Adrienne Reau are among those lower- classmen who are waiting to legally drive without an adult.

Reau mentioned that she and her friends either watch a movie or walk around town in their idle time because it’s better than staying at home. She also said that this will definitely change when she turns 16 because she’ll be able to drive to wherever she’s going and won’t have to spend winter nights walking out in the cold!

Walking at night in the winter obviously isn’t the most desirable thing to do on the weekend, so the students that aren’t able to drive seem to either stay inside or at least in town. Adrienne Reau agrees with this statement, she and her friends stay in town most of the weekends simply because they can’t drive anywhere. Tim Murphy mostly agrees with this statement as well: “We stay in Grandview. Rarely we’ll go to Bexley or Upper Arlington though”.

If you’ve ever wondered what other Grandview students do on the weekend, now you know. Grandview is such a small place and you’ll definitely see other students around every once in awhile. A lot of kids so stay in town and hang around in common places!

If you usually hang out with the same people and are bored with your usual weekend habits, maybe go out around town and do something new, find someone you don’t usually hang out with and spend time with them! We’re lucky to have such a close neighborhood like Grandview and we should take advantage of it!