Students rush out of buses to set up their music outside the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tenn. As they assemble their stands, the wind rushes through, blowing their music all over. As some students attempt...
Dressed in a white dobok uniform adorned with a monogrammed second degree black belt, sophomore Chloe Kallaos trains at ATA Martial Arts for four hours each week.
Kallaos began training when she was...
![Parkway West Orchestra Students pose for a group picture outside the Grand Ole Opry. The Grand Ole Opry is an American country music stage that originally opened as a one-hour radio “barn dance” on WSM in 1925, and is the longest-running radio broadcast in U.S. history. “[Country music] is kind of a hit or miss for me,” junior Chloe Kallaos said, “I don’t like the beer, trucks, girls in tight jeans kind. But the woman destroy man country, I like that kind.”](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/1000002867-900x675.jpg)
![Midway though her Jung Yul form, sophomore Chloe Kallaos prepares to extend her leg to the side. To earn her third degree blackbelt, Kallos has to perfect this form. “[We’ve] gone back to four classes a week for every group. It's been a little easier, and it [definitely] conflicts less with [other activities],” Kallaos said.](https://pwestpathfinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/unnamed-2-900x675.jpg)