The Student Magazine

"Here is what the Nakornpayap School Magazine, "The NPN," editor had to say at the beginning and end of the school year. An inside view of how influential school courses can be.....read on!"

A first word from the Editor – January, 2011

As I’m sitting here, writing my first editorial for the NPN (Nakornpayap News), I can’t seem to figure out how to start it.

After staying up till after midnight checking articles, like I always do the day before our deadline, all I can think about is, “Are we going to finish this in time?”

Creating a newspaper or magazine like the NPN might seem easy, but the truth is, it’s not. It’s stressful and tiring. We spend at least two weekends at school for each issue doing the layout.

After working for five hours straight on layout, you start to go insane. We always end up singing and dancing, saying weird things and yes, I must admit, I end up yelling a bit at people.

Don’t get me wrong. I love this. However, going to school on Saturdays at 9 am is annoying and irritating; but when it all comes together and I get the final issue in print in my hands, I cannot help but think, “I created this” and in the end, it’s all worth it!
Simone Rensch Nielsen – Managing Editor of the NPN and Grade 12 student.

A last word from the Editor – June, 2011

This is the last editorial I will ever write for the NPN. I can’t even begin to describe how hard it is to believe that I am done with high school. I am done with being the editor, at least of the NPN.

Graduation brings stress, excitement and fear all at once. One thing is leaving friends and just the security of high school that we have all had for the past years, but I’m not just leaving school and friends. I am leaving what for the past year has been such a big part of my daily life. The NPN.

As I am now leaving what has been my little baby throughout the year, I am very happy we decided to go online: www.npnonline.wordpress.com Now, I will be a reader instead of a writer and even from the other side of the globe I will now be able to read about everything that is happening at NIS.

I am very happy that I have had a chance to be a part of something as educational as a school publication, and I don’t know what I would have done if I hadn’t chosen journalism.

Thanks to journalism and the NPN, I have a slightly better idea of who I want to be. A writer.

Simone Rensch Nielsen – Graduating Senior Student and retiring NPN Managing Editor