Fresh Faces: Chase Crouch

Name: Chase Crouch
School: West Valley High School
School/year in school/age: West Valley High School, junior, 17.
Activities/Hobbies/Clubs: Leadership Plus Club.
Favorite food: Cheese pizza.
Favorite movies: “The Hills Have Eyes,” “The Descent,” and “Cry Wolf.”
Favorite books/writers: Scott Westerfield and his books, the “Uglies,” “Pretties,” “Specials,” and “Extras.”
Favorite music, musicians, or bands: Mika, Hellogoodbye, Brand New.
What is your most treasured possession? My iPhone, because it is one of the first things I worked for when I started my job at Living Care Retirement.
What’s your favorite place to go in your hometown? The Yakima Valley Mall.
Which person do you most admire and why? I admire my older sister, Catie, because I learn from her, whether it’s from the good or the bad.
What would you do with $1 million? I would buy an emu.
Three words that describe you: Funny, smart, happy.
What is your greatest achievement? Getting into Leadership Plus my junior year.
Greatest wish: I wish I had my car back!
When and where were you the happiest? Seeing my sister, Grace, for the first time.
Where and how do you see yourself in 10 years? I see myself in a successful job with a wife and maybe a child.

— Evalyn Suarez attends West Valley High School.

Remembering Loved Ones

By EVALYN SUAREZ
WEST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL

If a flower petal can represent a memory, then we had many this Memorial Day. True, we did not pick them from our own yard this time. Instead, we went to Safeway and bought several dozen.

But the gesture was still the same. Read more

Evalyn Suarez — West Valley High School

Mornings are always hard, especially mornings when you have to get up at 5:55 a.m. and didn’t get to sleep until 2 a.m.
The thing that wakes me up is seeing my friends, especially Jazmyne. She’s a little on the overly energetic side and really doesn’t care what others think, so she often has random outbursts.
The bell always rings too soon. But, after awhile, it’s like you can feel the annoying thing about to ring. You seem to know when it’s coming.
Since math class is first, I can’t stay awake. I’m only really awake for about the first few minutes. My teacher is giving some kind of lecture that I should be listening to, but my head is resting on my hand.
I listen to announcements, or try to.
I walk to my Spanish class in the old, weird-smelling Building 3. I sit down listlessly in my seat. Group work is my least favorite part. I’m not very comfortable around people to begin with, though I can be if I have a friend or two there to give me support. One-on-one is OK, but groups of three, I normally get ignored or left out.
The bell rings and I leave for lunch, heading straight for the cafeteria after going through the laborious job of packing my backpack, which weighs close to 50 pounds.
Fifth-period Honors English is probably my favorite class right now. We’re reading “Jane Eyre.” I read the book when I was in seventh grade.
We talk about the book, take a quiz and get assignments before we leave to go home. Climbing on the bus, I look over my homework. I have a lot just like every night.
Tonight will probably be another night with little, or possibly, no sleep.