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Monday, May 1, 2023 | Pinewood International American School of Thessaloniki

Editor’s Note

arya Kostikina

Dear reader,

We’re excited to share our 2023 Spring Issue of Pineword with you! We’re especially pleased to offer two new segments this issue: several Pinewood News articles written by Mrs. Dalakas’s ELL-Intensive Grade 7 students, as well as extracts from the Pinewood Forensics team’s student speeches. The articles in these segments span a wide variety of interesting topics, from recycling to freedom of thought.

While our photographers at Pineword took a much-needed break during the Easter holiday, Ms. Laina Smith, a grade 2 teacher at Pinewood, was hard at work snapping pictures of the wildflowers now popping up around Greece which you will see represented here. We hope the articles, photos, and creative writing in this issue help you transition into the warmer weather, and that you utilize our suggestions for Spring travel and recipes during the upcoming long weekends all while remaining environmentallyconscious, of course!

As spring comes into full swing, it’s also a time of new beginnings. Though some of the pieces in this issue take on a more somber tone, such as the Pinewood News coverage of the Tempi tragedy or our poetry about love and loss, we hope all of the pieces here offer us a chance to reflect on the topics concerning our community today. For example, should we be taking action to put an end to the phenomenon of fast fashion? How do we define “ progress”? Are we facing a crisis of culture? Spring is a chance for us to examine the matters that concern us and make changes as we move into the summer and, soon, the new school year.

As one article states, all things must come to an end! Though this is our final issue for the 2022-2023 school year, we’re already looking ahead to the new beginning offered by next fall. For now, our team is concerned with the fast-approaching exam season. We wish everyone at Pinewood luck as they tackle this stressful time; maybe you can relate to the character in the short story “The Mirror,” whose “eyes close on top of pages that smell fresh of pen ink almost every night!”

We thank you for your support of the Journalism club this year, and appreciate the large number of pieces we’ve received from contributors. If you feel in any way inspired to contribute, we’re happy to accept articles, photos, poems, stories, drawings, and more!

We wish you happy readings of Pineword’s 2023 Spring issue!