The Bark 2017/2018 2018 yearbook | Page 7

Making it personal Senior sunrise is a time of getting together with friends and hearing how God can help us in our senior year. - Ivet Ibarra Senior Sunrise is the beginning of our senior year. We all sat together and watched the sun come up on our senior year, a symbol of our new beginning. - Kristen Brasher Senior Sunrise allows us to start the year the right way, giving God the glory for letting us make it this far, and it allows us to put him back in school. - Kelsey Payne It was good to be with my classmates just sitting around and talking about our future. - Rafael Mijares Before we Begin We ve finally made it to the year we have all been waiting for. Yes, ever since we started school we have longed for it to be over. However, maybe we didn t stop and look around long enough. So, before it s all over now is as good time as any to stop and realize what we have before it s gone. Before we hear our name being called in front of our families to receive that slip of paper that tells us to move on. Before we must say goodbye to the people that have surrounded us since day one, because after those last goodbyes we won t know the next time we ll see each other. It doesn t mean it s the last time we ll hear of each other, because within our group of ready individuals are the ones with potential who will make a name for themselves. The scientist who makes a new scientific discovery, the designer who changes the face of fashion, the doctor who puts other s lives before his/her own, the computer scientist who brings technology into the next century, or the writer who creates emotion through their story. With the amount of potential and faith in our group of upcoming graduates, these futures are possible. So we ll take the lessons we ve learned on our own separate journeys and make the most of the life we have, because we only get one. One chance to make it count. And when we re ready to return to this place we call home, we ll have new stories and new beginnings of a life waiting to be lived. Until then, welcome to the class of 2018. - Mattie Hamilton Student Life 5