Westlake High School - El Paisano Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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N: COLD AWYXKENING. At the Nnrthxmss ire rink before sthoolJunr ior Charlotte Fischer u arms up beforr practicing a full dance routine, Char, Intte wurkcd nut dailx at 4: 50 mm, and even travelled to Dullax nn lht chk' ends during tlu inc rink'x rrnm'atmn. 135 Rnutinus THURSDAY HANGING. The night before the Gonzales football game, junior Dayna Marysek and Janet Petrie secure the juniors' sign. Dur- ing football season all classes had sign painting sessions. LUNCH DUTY. As fifth period approaches, underclassmen study for tests and finish homework sets. ALN1 ST 814;. In .icxpcrulr at: tempt tn rm- mm M 1nd. ummr Daren Enin wrrlxhvx IX-xpm lhc .lhwnus Hf bvle the n m hrnm; my; M u m hex from lfu mix v nu llu PX LL pl xrudrntx nn limu.

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7lzeBeAJfag7m oin e Same Old Things FOOD. Confined to campus during lunch, freshr man Mason Lincoln buys food at the snack bar. Every day freshmen and sophomores filled the cafeteria while upperclassmen routinely left campus. 1 llSOMETIMES ITS REALLY HARD TO GET GOING AT 4 AM, BUT ITS WORTH THE EFFORT WHEN 1 WIN. The alarm sounds at 7 a.mi every weekday morning. The bleary'eyed student rolls reluctantly out of bed and into the shower. After downing a bowl of the Breakfast of Champions, he begins his day: gains knowledge for seven hours, comes back home and finishes off the day with a little homework or television. Amid the politics of lengthening the school year and even the school day, students survived with set roue tines that began in August, and by May were a permanent part of their lifestyle. uI go to the same classes, get there about the same time every day and walk to and from class with the same people, junior Rusty Gregory said. Hlt gets real old, but it's over after awhile anyway. Students measured time on any; where from an hourly basis before a research paper was due to a yearly ba- sis as they looked forward to a special event or season. After football season we start preparing for the next season, junior Bobby Jones said. llThe preparation is a routine because I lift weights nearly every day. Some students, sporting calendars and appointment hooks, had a differ, ent routine for each day, but the conv stant influx of activities became an exhausting routine in itself. USometimes lld measure my time by the week, senior Susan Gillean said. uI'd have a paper due and a test and a meeting, and lid think lifl can just get through this week everything will be all right: Then the next week would come and it would start all over again.H Others had unpredictable routines. ul get up at 7 a.m. every morning eat the same thing-steak and tortillas-and get picked up for school at 8 a.m., junior Kim Fleming said. uThen, after school, I juggle, watch MTV lmusic televisionl, do home, work or practice karate. Even the busiest students had things that never changed in their day, like what they ate or did not eat for breakfast, when they made time for their homework and who they looked for in the halls. But for some, routine was welcome. especially if they got paid for it. uMaking pizzas at Gatti's can grow old, especially working four to six days a week freshman Alex Engle' man said. HBut I know that I am mak ing money and when that paycheck h in my hand the routine is worth it. 134 Student Life

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.x .kxvr 7Aef3wjof7m Just When Everything Seemed : Normal TIME AFTER TIME it u ALMOST READY. Despite the fact that school had not started, freshman Jennifer Thornton hits the football stadium seats early to prepare for halftime shows for the seasons Hair in curlers, Jennifer takes a 15 minute break. -- IIYour fly,s unzipped! screamed the students during a speech to the student body. The brand new BMW sat peaceful, ly parked in the lot with a gash in the side. Members of the junior class hid after their skit at homecoming. Most hoped at least some of their Ilcharacter building experiences would remain forgotten. uThat was the only time Ilve seen my life flash in front of me, senior Tommy I-Iines said. And he probably hoped it would be the last. It was my first time to ride a horse and we were all going up this steep rock trail at camp. My horse got scared and trotted under a low lying branch which knocked me off. He slipped on some rocks and started falling back towards me, Tommy explained. uI got really scared when I saw that foot coming toward me and ended up with a bruise in the shape of a horseshoe on my abdomen. The justified fear of pain as well as the things that seemed like they were scary added one more story to tell on Monday morning. HSome friends and I started screaming because we thought we saw someone being murdered in a car and consequently we had a WHEN 1 FIRST WAKE UP, FM UNSURE 1 CAN MAKE IT ALL DAY. 0 0 0 OUT OF BED, ITS OKAY? ?:xsgfides' wreck, junior Anna Aldave said. uWe were terrified at the time but later Ifound out it was just a practical joke and got pretty embarrassed. Anna experienced several embarv rassing moments in relation to 6th Street. uI got the strangest looks when I fell down three times down on 6th Street and was perfectly sober, she said. Several in the junior class homecoming skit admit they were ready to escape back into the crowd by the end of it. HI had to dress up like a preppie girl with a bow in my hair for the homecoming skit, junior Carlos Brown said. III was so embarrassed! Carlosi energy tended to get him into a little more than he bargained for much of the time. HI don't want to get licks again like I did after putting a hole in Mrs. Adams' wall with my carpenterls utensils, Carlos said. While Carlos dreaded the wrath of the administration, sophomore John Haralson experienced a different type Of fear. You have to know my dad to understand why my F in geometry was one of the scariest things that has ever happened to me, John said. 136 Student Life