Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies - Excalibur Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Paul Daher Yinka Dallas Monique Davidson Christopher De Dios Christie Del Castillo Nestor Deleon Tu Diep Cintia Difrieri Sumeet Dixit Casey Dodge Jason Dukes Sedrak Ekimyan Yvette El-Tobgy Joshua Elias Jon Emaus Tania Escamilla Ruth Escoto Kenneth Ferranti Marina Filipelli Marie Florendo Heatherdawn Flowers Ian Fontenot Michelle Footlik Justin Foster Jason France Monique Franklin Svetlana Gaisinsky Jose Galdamez Jacqueline Galeano Beth Galimidi Jacqueline Garcia Jose Garcia How does it feel now that you are in P.E.? Oh, I don ' t know, better than Math and English. I like the girls, said Jesus Lopez ' i don ' t like to get dressed in front of other people, said Al- vin Thompson. Too much work! moaned Susie Montegue. I like L.A.P.E. better. No dress, Mike Besem. There are some good points to P.E. I just dislike playing one sport at a time, said Julie Jo- seph. I enjoy the weight room, said David Martinez. It ' s a lot better now because I don ' t have to worry about homework in P.E. class, said Yinka Dallas. 142 Seventh grade Faces

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Gustavo Bone Amilcar Bonilla Carlos Bonilla Jennifer Booska Theresa Braverman James Brewer Steve Briones Thurman Brown Nahtahna Cabanes La Derica Cameron John Canada Jeffrey Cannon Etelgive Castillo Oscar Castillo Angela Cesser Michelle Chang Myron Chang John Christy Justin Chuvichien Brad Cody Lauren Coleman Annette Collins Eric Corpino Lourdes Cuyun How long do you play your favorite game and why? My favorite game is ' Life Force ' . I play two times a day which takes me about two hours be- cause I can easily beat it with or without a code. I also play it because I am usually depressed or mad about school and blasting and destroying things [in the game] make me feel better. It is also my favor- ite game because it makes the biggest explosions too, said Scott Iblings. My favorite game is ' Ice Hockey which I play with my brother for about an hour a day. I like this game because it ' s exciting and I always win, said Amie Rasking. I ' m bored of this game — Jeff Niema ejects R.C. ' Pro-Am ' and is ready to load Top Gun into his Nintendo which he had for about a year and a half now. One of his favorite game is ' Mike Ty- son ' s Punch Out ' . Seventh grade Faces 141

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Natalie Gavrilman Karim Gladden Bryan Godinez Milena Goldenberg Alexandra Gomez Damian Goodman Anna Goplen Evin Grant Aaron Grayson Caren Green Kirpal Grewal Rigoberto Guzman Amirreza Habibi Jason Halpern Marya Hameed Jennifer Hanan James Heard Maria Hernandez Myrena Hernandez Elan Hersh Megan Hickey Akia Hicks Tolani Holmes Shakeema Hooper Todd Hornsby Gregory Huber David Hyman Scott Iblings Hideo Igawa Angela Irigoyen Tirzah Jackson Tomasine Jackson SEVE NTH GRADE ' »• We soak up lots of pain All seventh graders taking Physical Education for the first time can all agree on one thing, it is different. They no longer have to sit in class for half the period and there ' s more exercises involved. Each student is issued a gym locker for the sole purpose of having to dress appropriately for the long vigorous exercise in store for them. Most insist definitely that it serves no purpose. Hustle. Hustle . . . dribbling the ball down the court, one can feel the intensi- ty between these two young athletes, as Shane Sian defends his basket from Jon Emaus. but to no avail! Jon scored, ultimately winning the game. I losh, I hope I ' m not tardy . . just get- ing into the locker room. Eric ,4verett ushes to finish dressing so that he isn ' t narked tardy. It turned out he was tar- ly anyway, he couldn ' t make it on time. The calisthenics which con- sists of the windmills, cherry pick-ups, push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups are done to develop a stronger trim body. It is also done to loosen the tight muscles so that when playing or running around they don ' t injure their bodily parts too seriously. It ' s great now because we no longer stay in class for half the period and we have more play time. said Stuart Shine. Quite often, this kind of en- thusiasm is not shared by all. It ' s hard because we have to exercise so much! complained Vicki White. It takes some adjusting, to have to dress in time and come out to the field before they are considered tardy. Many seventh graders acquire certain nega- tive feelings towards dressing. I ' m forced to wear the P.E. uniform and I really don ' t like the idea too much! said Gabri- el Alers. In spite of their numerous complaints it ' s the rule under which they are governed by. Unable to comply with these rules often result in a devastat- ing or an unsatisfactory grade in the class. This is the stage in their life in which they finally feel grown up. It ' s different now because we no longer have to do home- work in P.E. I feel more grown up now and more important be- cause I ' m dressing with the older kids. said Jason Pivnik. It ' s all part of growing up and takes some adapting to. They ' re small fishes in a big pond and before long they ' ll be the big fishes. Bv Steve Bao Seventh grade Faces 143