{"id":7686,"date":"2014-09-24T09:43:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T14:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/?p=7686"},"modified":"2014-09-24T09:43:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T14:43:45","slug":"fgl-starts-the-year-off-strong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/index.php\/2014\/09\/fgl-starts-the-year-off-strong\/","title":{"rendered":"FGL Starts the Year off Strong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Freaks, Geeks, and Losers, or FGL, kicked off their year of activities on Friday, Sept.\u00a012, by watching\u00a0The Avengers.\u00a0On\u00a0Friday, Sept.\u00a019 they watched the anime\u00a0Fullmetal\u00a0Alchemist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe first meeting was pretty slim, but our second meeting had a bunch of new freshmen,\u201d junior Emily Webb, one of the leaders of the club, said. \u201cThe new students seem to be pretty open to new fandoms and new friends. I think FGL is looking to be a very\u00a0populous\u00a0and exciting group this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Although FGL is officially\u00a0overseen\u00a0by\u00a0Ric\u00a0Shahin, he attests that the club is truly led by the students themselves, and that they make all the decisions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThe club reflects the changing interests of students, so activities are what they want, including multiple activities on any given Friday,\u201d\u00a0Shahin\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>FGL is all about making friends and sharing interests with others, and that means a lot to these students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a place for people to express their individuality as well as feel the friendship of people with similarities,\u201d\u00a0Webb said.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DHS Daily Announcements\" href=\"https:\/\/www.midlandps.org\/sites\/dhs\/Pages\/Daily-Announcements.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">DHS Daily Announcements<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>By Maddie Davis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freaks, Geeks, and Losers, or FGL, kicked off their year of activities on Friday, Sept.\u00a012, by watching\u00a0The Avengers.\u00a0On\u00a0Friday, Sept.\u00a019 they watched the anime\u00a0Fullmetal\u00a0Alchemist. \u201cThe first meeting was pretty slim, but our second meeting had a bunch of new freshmen,\u201d junior Emily Webb, one of the leaders of the club, said. \u201cThe new students seem to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1339,1337,1338,1336],"class_list":["post-7686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3feature","tag-beats","tag-fgl","tag-freaks-geeks-and-losers","tag-maddie-davis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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