St Ignatius College Prepatory - Ignatian Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Ava Rosen and Kayley Johnson take a break from their work on Tacoma Immersion. Kevin Byrne. Kirk Hilken. Erik Loos. Scott Gooscns and Profd Escobar strike a pose on Tijuana Immersion. Deborah Magsaysay hangs out with local children of San Bias on Costa Rica Immersion. Jamie Lundy spends quality time with school children on the East LA Immersion. Tijuana Immersion Left to Right: Alison Lynch. Kirk Hilken. Natalya Deroberiis-Theye. Kevin Byrne. Elizabeth Scott. Scott Gooscns. Liza Lozovatskaya. Erik Loos. Aileen Ford. Miranda Herrera East LA Immersion Left to Right: Anna Stricherz (leader). Claire Herbert. Gianna Gallcta. Jamie Lundy. Kevin Aguirre. Dominic Salbctcra. Aron Gragnani, Jessie Balsham student life 21

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o m meris® ini Immersing yourself in a new and different society: this is immersion. On the immersion trips, students lived in San Francisco, Costa Rica, East Los Angeles. Tijuana, Birmingham, Tacoma, Sacramento, and Salinas. In each of these places, participants lived in soidarity with their community in order to experience how other people live. To fully experience everything, students lived through the four tenents: Acting Justly, Living Simply, Building Community, and Keeping Faith. By living in a totally new place, students learned about the problems other people face such as poverty and segregation. For me, it was very interesting to compare the problems of the people in the small town of San Bias to mine. Looking back on my trip, it’s funny to think about how I worry about what college I will be attending because hardly anyone in the community I lived in even gets to have the opportunity to apply to college. One immediate result from Immersion is thanking God for the opportunities you do have. Also, on immersion, students became less ignorant about the problems people face around the world. Immersion gave participants the chance to learn more and to be less consumed in his or her own problems. Jessie Balsham, from the East Los Angeles Immersion, learned that we should deal with everyone’s problems as if it were our own. “Their problem is our problem . - Levon Eldemir '06 Costa Rica Immersion Left to Right: Matthew Sahagan, Tina Reggio. Paul Zmuda. Allison Silvestri (leader). Deborah Magsaysay. Laura Maxwell. Chad Evans (leader). Maria Martin. Levon Eldemir. and Camila Mize. Tacoma Immersion Top row: Caroline Stone. Kayley Johnson. Paolo Larano. Todd Bank (leader) Second row: Samantha Bautista. Ava Rosen. Kicra Quinlcn Bottom row: Nicolas Schaukowitch. Sam Nclscn. Mary Abinante (leader) 20 student life

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Birmingham Immersion group shares a laugh together. Dria Murphy, Emily Simpson and Jamie Rey serve up a deli- cious meal on Salinas Immersion. bottom: Jason Tcngco and Ariel Estebez bond on their Birmingham Immersion trip. Kevin Yip. Taylor Smith. Marla Pacini spend time with people at a shelter on San Francisco Immerion. Immersion Birmingham Immersion Top Row: Colleen Mullen. Micaela Shorrock, Connor Fitzpatrick; Middle Row: Jason Tengco and Chris Hoffman; Bottom Row: Natalie Abinantc. Ariel Estebez. Kristen Chan San Francisco Immersion Top Row: Mac Cannady (leader). Will Sinks. Taylor Smith Front Row: Katrina Yupangco. Marla Pacini. Kevin Yip. Cat Ferdon. Allie Paver and Jessica Downing. 22 student life