Capistrano Valley High School - El Gato Yearbook (Mission Viejo, CA)

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Rob Tanaka Anarda Tapia Juan Tapia Kathy Taylor Aman Thind Shad Thomas Daniel Thomson Adam Thornfield Brian Thurber Kerry Trevino Michelle Valdez Aimee Van Fleet Erik Vandermeule Frankie Vega Noel Vega Cynthia Velez id. A SHARING THE ANSWERS — Maureen Umana watches Michele Castaldi do all the work. Students worked together to make the hon-iework load less stressful. ► RELAXING A LEG — Steve Fulgham whis- pers to Jason Class to look casual. 306 Sophomores

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Steven Skelton Dezlia Skidmore Janette Slechta Alejc Smith Doug Smith Elizabeth Smith Jennifer Smith Matthew Smith Tony Solliday Timothy Solomon Dawn Sorensen Rebecca Speein Kim Spencer Cecilia Stavros Tricia Stephen Stephanie Stets( Still Rvan Stinchcomb lared Stivers Jennifer Stobiecki Greg Strickland 7 Agowj cud Oefcd ' ( bahyilJllMg ' A oplumimjob Usually, the first paying job of a student ' s life is babysitting. The dreaded, rarely happy-to-do-so task of taking care of brats gives a teenager an experience in parenting for the joy of a profit. Is being paid anywhere from $1.50-$5.00 an hour worth babysitting anywhere from 2 hours up to an entire weekend? Not always. The first time I ever tried babysit- ting one kid cried and screamed while I cleaned up the mess the oth- er kid made in his pants, said Matt Holt. There ' s always the kid who won ' t cooperate, and sometimes, when you ' re fed up, you just have to go to extremes. A little boy was trying to make me chase him all over the house. I got so mad that i chased HIM out- side. Then I locked the door and walked away, said Heather Andrea- sen. But, some babysitters like to have fun with the kid who ' s a pain in the rear figuring, if your Friday night is shot, why not make the best of the situation? Once, the kid stuck his head in the toilet and flushed it, laughed Nivedita Khamamkar, His hair came out like a swirlee. Toilets were also popular with Branden Muresan. My friend and I tried to flush my sister down the toi- let; while she screamed, we laughed, he said. Then, there are those times when the burden of responsibility over- rides practical jokes. Locked in a house while babysit- ting, Chris Price said, A guy crank- called and said he was watching us and gave perfect descriptions of all of us. For Larisa Moore, miscommunica- tion almost gave her a heart attack. The little girl 1 was babysitting yelled to me from her room. I thought she screamed ' FIRE ' , and I ran up expecting smoke and flames. It turned out she said ' SPIDER. ' Nobody is ever ready for the worst to happen, but how do you expect the unexpected? Adam Larmer said, Our neigh- bors were having another baby and called me to babysit at 1:30 a.m. 1 went over in my pajamas and my eyes half-opened. For Kristen Eldred, a memory lapse was a mistake. 1 forgot I had to babysit and I was all ready to go out and the door bell rang, I expected my friends, but it ended up being the parents I babysit for who had come instead. Then, there ' s the chance of an emergency. Whom do you call? What do you do? Once, I was babysitting an infant and I turned my back for a second and she ate part of the T.V. Guide. I panicked, but she just coughed it back up, said Kristin Paradzick. For most people, babysitting is boring, and inviting people over, talking on the phone, watching T.V., reading a book, or doing homework usually passes the time. But, for those who are familiar with the an- tics in Adventures in Babysitting , that could happen to you. So, think twice when deciding to babysit- is the money worth it? Sophomores 395

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Soraida Villalobos Rene Vondra Malt Wahlquist Amy Walker Douglas Wallace Valerie War. Shaun Watson Nathan Way Monica Weidner Aimee Wells Christa Wells Bridget William ' Deanna William Mathew Willian Robert Wilson ▲ HYPNOTIZING HER FRIENDS- Kriste Eldred tells lennifer )ackson and Lisa Merril to look at her fingers. Sophomores 307