Saddleback High School - Caparral Yearbook (Santa Ana, CA)

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Not interested in the class discus- sion. Gerals Cardajal takes a nap. Energizing herself lor the day. Vicky Ortega supplies herself with apple juice from the cafeteria. The cafeteria food often becomes breakfast for numerous students who get up late and do not get a chance to eat at home. After oversleeping twenty minutes. Mario Esparza quickly fills out the blue slip that will permit him to enter class late. Attendance lines were usually longer after 8:00 because of the late rush. 41 Tammy Charpentier contemplates the day ' s events as she takes a look around her. Victims of the Almost Moving syndrome always seem to be wondering. What ' s going on? Srudenr Life 23

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am. Tftecu s4C Pt 4t Tttavinj By Karina Cerda and Elena Moore found myself in the mid- dle of nowhere. Suddenly, I see a light and run to it. Now I find myself in ' O ' period. Test tomorrow, says the teacher. I hear the same two words from my first and sec- ond period teachers. In third period, my one hundred points project is due. In addi- tion to that, I have to prepare a speech. How will I get all my homework done and still be able to get up tomorrow at 5:30 for ' 0 ' period? I seem to be getting nowhere. I start to run and then . . . I hear Mom ' s voice saying, Get up! Already?, I moan. For many students, get- ting up in the morning is the worst part of the day. Setting the alarm is a futile effort to awaken your body. When the alarm rings, everyone in the household is shocked by the blaring noise except you. Your mind simply refuses to acknowledge such an annoy- ance. If you are involved in ♦ A Conquering the A.M. syn- drome, senior Tony Brock hurriedly finishes his homework before class. Every morning, sleepy-eyed stu- dents can be found in the library studying. Julia Hollins would rather catch some sleep that she missed the night before than do strenuous ex- ercise. Students are often nonactive in class participation in the early A.M. hours. sports, extracurricular ac- tivities, or have a job, home- work becomes a late night task which strongly affects your sleeping pattern. I wake up at 5:00 every morning because I go to an early morning seminar that starts at 6:00 before I come to school for zero period English, says Kristen Cook, junior. I usually get to bed late, she added, and it be- comes hard to wake up in the morning. The task of getting your body in motion and your brain functioning properly is faced by all students who can relate to the early morn- ing dilema. V 22 A.M. means Almost Moving

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WEEKENDS: Rest, Relaxation, and Recreation By Kjersti Walker 5,4,3,2,1 . . . Buzzz. It ' s about time! I thought that bell was never going to ring. Seems like it just rings any- time it wants to. The weekend ' s here! I ' ll fi- nally get to sleep in. Oh no! I have to work! Oh well, I ' ll get a few more zzz ' s. I ' m working the morning shift, too. I hate it. All I can think about is be- ing back in bed, not standing at the cast register taking an order from some l ady practically ordering the whole menu. It won ' t be too bad tomorrow though, ' cause I can catch the gang at the beach later. I hope I get a tan. It was embarrasing when they sang Blinded By the Light to me last week. I ' ll just have to breakout with the sun tan goop that ' s sup- posed to make you dark. Hopefully we ' ll go to Golf ' N ' Stuff later. I just love those bumper boats. I re- member when Mike fell over in one; what a laugh! Well, that ' s tomorrow ' s agenda, but tonight, there ' s gonna be a wild party. A totally hard core punch and cookie party. Everyone ' s go- ing to be there. Too bad Mike won ' t, though — he ' s keep- ing his date with Sarah. That ' s what I call true Pup- py Love — to even pass up punch and cookies. Friday . . . Check Saturday . . . Check Sunday . . . Sunday I gotta get up with Mr. Sun himself, go to church, and do my homework. Then it ' s back to school and not being able to wait for the bell to take it ' s sweet time to ring on Friday. Randy Gussman and Samantha Banuelos enjoy starting another weekend off with Friday ' s Back-to- School dance. Dancing has become a major weekend thing for teen- agers. John Cook and Julie Erickson put their strategic talents to work at an arcade. Of course, John played a football video game. 24 Weekends