{"id":11141,"date":"2019-05-03T17:05:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=11141"},"modified":"2019-05-03T17:05:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:05:53","slug":"joseph-ziesing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/03\/joseph-ziesing\/","title":{"rendered":"JOSEPH ZIESING"},"content":{"rendered":"

WRHS senior gets inspiration from \u2018Down Under\u2019<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Emilee Mae Struss<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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WRHS senior Joseph Ziesing learned to play the Australian wind instrument called the didgeridoo for his senior project. Photo credit: Konrad Ziesing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Transferring schools as a junior can be a very intimidating idea and challenging process, especially when you\u2019ve known the same group of students for the majority of your life. That\u2019s how senior Joseph Ziesing\u2019s story at Wood River High School begins. He was born in North Dakota and then moved to Nampa with his family, where he attended most of his schooling.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a little nervous at the start,\u201d said Ziesing, \u201cbut it has been a great experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ziesing didn\u2019t waste any time. He jumped right in to the B-Tones, an all-male choral group; Jazz Band; and Jenny and the Bets, another jazz band group. He played Professor Plum in the play Clue performed by the WRHS drama department and will be co-directing Seinfeld, a one-act play, this year.<\/p>\n

He is also hitting his course load at WRHS quite hard. Currently, Ziesing is enrolled in Advanced Placement Government, A.P. Calculus, A.P. Micro-Economics, A.P. U.S. History and A.P. Literature. Ziesing is on track to graduate this year with a 3.8 GPA.<\/p>\n

Outside of his full course load and musical commitments, Ziesing is a practicing magician and spray-paint artist. He started learning magic two years and spray-paint art one year ago. He also enjoys creative writing. One of his dreams is to travel to Australia, for it has already brought him great inspiration.<\/p>\n

For his personal project, a requirement for graduation at WRHS, Ziesing learned how to play the didgeridoo. He also made a makeshift one out of plastic piping. The didgeridoo is an Australian wind instrument that\u2019s also known as a natural wooden trumpet. It\u2019s very thin and typically with artistic designs and colors on it.<\/p>\n

Beyond musical instruments, one of Ziesing\u2019s most prized possessions is an Aussie Outback hat. And a few of his favorite actors\u2014Margot Robbie, Hugh Jackman, and Heath Ledger\u2014are all Australian.<\/p>\n

Ziesing isn\u2019t sure when he will get the chance to travel to Australia but it\u2019s high on his travel list. And for next year, he is attending Northwest University in Kirkland, Wash., with a full tuition scholarship to become an English teacher.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn general, one of the best things about moving here last year was it really prepared me to start completely new in college next year,\u201d Ziesing said. \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note: Anyone who would like to recommend a Blaine County School District student for The Weekly Sun\u2019s \u201cStudent Spotlight\u201d feature should contact Emilee Struss at emilee.struss@gmail.com.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WRHS senior gets inspiration from \u2018Down Under\u2019 By Emilee Mae Struss Transferring schools as a junior can be a very intimidating idea and challenging process, especially when you\u2019ve known the same group of students for the majority of your life. That\u2019s how senior Joseph Ziesing\u2019s story at Wood River High School begins. He was born […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11141","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sponsored","8":"category-student-spotlight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}