Serrano High School - Mirages Yearbook (Phelan, CA)

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QFFICIAL PROCEDINGS Behind the doors of the A.S.B. office everyday between 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. a small group of indi- viduals worked together to create and organized school activities. This small group consisted of Toby Powell, ASB Presidentg Paul McAfee, Vice-Presidentg Craig Thornhill, Treasurer, Cheryl Bruton, Secretary, Mel Bantau, Senior Class Presidentg Becky Quinn, Junior Class President: Cherish Williams, Sophomore Class Presidentg Billy Quinn, Freshman Class President: and two foreign ex- change studentsg Signe Berg from Denmark and Maria Baron from Argentina. The most important people in the ASB were Activities Di- rector Jean Martin and his assistant, Sheri Downer. Without Mr. Martin and Ms. Downer, the ASB would not and could not function. L to R: Becky Quinn, Signe Berg Maria Baron Billy Quinn Craig Thornhill Paul McAfee Toby Powell Cheryl Bruton Mel Bantau Cherish Williams, Jean Martin 24 if Hi'

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EXCHANGING IDEAS When I first decided to go to the U.S. for a school year I started to wonder, as he time got closer to my arrival, what it was like. Was I going to live in a big city vith sky scrapers and yellow taxis or was I going to live on a flat field in the niddle of nowhere. What was the school: did I get a locker like in the movies, could I wearjeans, would I have to goto church, what was my family going to be ke, etc. When I finally stood in the airport I asked myself. Why am I doing this? land hat was not the last time I asked myself thisl. lt has been a great experience. I have learned so much about myself, my own amily, my country and, of course, the American way of living, school, and rulture. I have had so much fun but there have also been some hard times. It ias been hard to get used to being so dependent on other people. Serrano High School was one of the best experiences that I ever have had. I ke the way each student has an individual schedule because a subject can be chosen that is liked. I think it is good that there are so many subjects to choose rom. I didn't have enough periods to take all that I wanted. I played volleyball the first two months and that was great. It was hard in the ieginning because I just came, but the other players and Coach Turrill helped ne so much and I miss volleyball a lot. The first day I came to school was very exciting. It was very interesting to vatch how strange the girls were dressed. It was so different with so much nakeup and high heels in school. That is something that has been difficultto get used to, but it has been fun in a way. Even though it has been hard and there have been some days when I have ieen really homesick, I'm very happy that I had a year as an exchange student it Serrano and I haven't regretted it. I have probably been hard to deal with sometimes, but I appreciated and thank everyone at Serrano for making my atay so wonderful and enjoyable as it has been. Thank You. TN ? '- MV A -495 When I first came to Serrano I was very confused. I met so many different people, that after a couple of days I didn't know who I was talking to. So many people said, Hit and I didn't know who they were. I didn't remember that I had ever started any conversations with them. After a couple of weeks I gave up. I just said, Hi! to anyone that said, Hi! to me. To learn names I had never heard in my entire life before was the most difficult thing, In general the students were very nice. They all wanted to know who this new stranger was. They had to know everything and when they learned something about me that the other people knew already they would say, Oh, I didn't know that! This can't be possible. They all tried to make me learn slang language so that I would feel more comfortable with them. Many times I didn't understand what people were saying. At first I didn't really care. I sometimes just didn't feel like asking people to repeat what they had said, so I always said with a low voice, so that they didn't hear very well, yes. This was until a girl asked me if her hair looked horrible and I answered with my low voice. Yes! I'm sure this girl will hate me for the rest of her life. My first day at school was a minimum day because it was the end of the semester. I thought that it was so short, it was great. In my third or fourth day we had an assembly fthe group 'The Edge'i. I thought this was just going to be wonderful! Some of the teachers were very funny although I didn't get all of Mr. Piercy's jokes at first. Although I hated Congressional Ouar1erlies articles that Mr. Piercy made us prepare for every Friday and Mrs. Carters poems and Mr. Hanley's outlines and section reviews and Mr. HolIeran's ten mile run, I won't forget that the teachers were very nice to me. Also I won't forget about ASB's parties! I liked Serrano High School and I thought that people have fun attending. I think this has been a good experience and I'm glad I was chosen to come to Serrano. r H A . ANOQ lo9t1fvxLw0vELl,um 25