Live Oak High School - La Encina Yearbook (Morgan Hill, CA)

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THGMAS BECKER Hi! My nome is Thomos. I come here in Augusf 4986, ond firsT iT Took me some Time To reolize whoT wos going on. BuT lofer I pdrTicipoTed in d IoT of Things. The people here ore preTTy nice ond I hdven'T been bored during my sToy. IT is sunny, buT I like To go To school here, probobly becduse I don'T hdve To poy oTTenTion To The courses I Took. My mdjor hobbies ore chess, Tennis, ond forTundTeIy Live Ook offers These dcTiviTies. I om hoppy ThoT I hdd The opporTuniTy To come here ond one Thing is sure I will refurn from Time To Time. MARLI BLICHOLZ Left: Thomas Becker YUMI MASUI Hello, my nome is Yumi. I'm from Jopdn. This is my second yedr of Live Ook. This yeor I Took mdny infer- esTing closses, olso pldyes in The field hockey Tedm. I reolly enjoyed myself. IT is nice To live ond ledrn some differenf Ionguoges from differenT counTries. I om pldnning To grddudTe nexT yedr. My nome is Mdrli Bucholz. I dm d Junior here dT Live Ook, ond I enjoy d IoT, I om from Brozil, This is my second yeor here in The U.S. I olwdys wdnTed To ledrn English, Then my dunf inviTed me To sTdy wiTh her in Morgdn Hill, ond I Took The opporTuniTy. Now, I hove goTTen To know much more Thdn jusT The Ion- guoge, becouse we hdve Troveled To mony ploces, ond seen o IoT obouT Americdn cuITure. I goT To know mdny sTudenTs olso from oTher counTries, They ore dll very friendly. I like Live Ook ond I dm very Thonkful for dll The help The Tedchers ond sTudenTs hove given me . . . BASMA 81 NADUA ARAP? Hi! We ore Bdsmo ond Nddud. We ore Seniors here oT Live Ook ond we enjoy iT d IoT. We come here for one yeor To ledrn The English Idnguoge. We ore from Germdny wiTh dn Arobic descenT, so Therefore we spedk boTh Sermon ond Arobic. Now we leorned d IoT of English ond we ledrned o IoT obouT The Americon cuITure Too. And we like - iT here. We goT o IoT of friends. We ore very, very Thonkful for The help dll Teochers ond sTudenTs gove us. Thdnks dgdin. 2

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210 INTERNAUGNALI STUDENTS From left to right: Andrea Hart- mann, Sabine Stein, Basrna Arar, Marli Bucholz, Nadua Aran Yumi Masui. ANDREA I-IARTIVIAN I was born in a small Town near Hannover, called Holzminden on The 2f'lAf69. My na- Ture is life enjoying. I wanTed To go To The UniTed STaTes for a year To do someThing differenT and even more inTeresTing Than The usual German school. I always do whaT makes me feel good. I like To eaT ice-cream, sew, kniT, and all The oTher usual sfuff. I Tried To learn surfing and l'm sTilI Trying, buT I go scared by The high waves. I like To wriTe es- says. I like movies abouT love and David HamiITon phofos. I visiTed France lasT sum- mer, French is The mosT beauTifuI language I know. I enjoy being in America. I Think iT is differ- enT in some Things, buT also similar To Ger- many in many ways. SABINE STEIN Hi! My name is Sabine and I am a senior This year aT Live Oak. I was born in Munich, my favoriTe ciTy in Germany by The way, on The l2f3'lf68. You probably wonder why came To The U.S., I wanTed To do someThing differenT Thar The daily roufine in Germany, geT To know new people. Their aTTiTudes, learn abouT The culTure, way of living eTc I Think ThaT America is similar To Germany, buT iT differs also in many ways. I enjoy living here, my favorife places are CapiTola and San Francisco. I like playing Tennis, Travel ing, going To The beach, kniTing, jusT The usual sTuff. I Think i is greaT ThaT The school offers so many acTiviTies: clubs sporTs, dances . . . Now I wanT To Thank all The friends I make for having such a greaT Time wiTh Them and I wanT To Thank The Teachers for Their Time Too. Bye, Bine

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ALL OF THE ALL CDN A PAGE The 4986-87 school yeor wos o yeor of chonge. Policy chonges Thof hod been mere ideos in The posT suddenly become diminsions of reol life oT Live Ook High School. Chdnges such os The sevenTh period, new Tordy ond oTTendonce policies, shorTer possing period, oddifionol Teochers, new porfobles, ond The loss of The smoking secTion hdve mode enormous impocTs on This school yeor. Though some chonges were engineered from The sToTe level, some were siTe or disTricT chonges. NoT oil The chonges were successful. Overoll, The Live Ook sTudenT body hos been very spiriTed ond did on excellenf job odjusfing To dll The chonges encounTered. There were some rough Times when shoky Tordy ond oTTendonce policies mode life o liTTle more difficulT. There wos olso some Tension disployed during lunch breok. The sevenTh period doy ond The mony chonges moy possibly hove been The couse. Alfhough There were problems, There is no redson To feel Thof This yeor wos noT o huge success. Our oThleTes were more successful Thon ever. We were highly successful in The Acodemic DecoTholon ond our S.A.T. scores wenT up so we ore now fiffh in The counTy. There hos olso been more odvdnced plocemenf courses offered Then ever. The 4986-87 yeor wos mode o huge success by The sTudenT body ond sfoff despife The mony odjusTmenTs ThdT were needed. For The seniors leoving, This wos definoTely d fulfilling yeor To be proud of. x 'T-el-sis' M. 'hh rig ' Above: Acorns can survive any fall. Right: When you try to get gg wav y:,, out of the L.O. parking lol, it's hard to believe there are stu- dents still riding the bus. V?