“I am so excited and in truth scared at the same time. Everything will go fast and next thing you know it, college is right in the corner,” said Keith Sablan, Grace Christian Academy junior turning senior.
“We can’t be that junior student right behind the seniors because soon, we will be a college kid living an independent life. Senior year is really when reality hits us. It is one more year for college and we will be by ourselves to further our education. And I know that next will go by real quick,” he said.
“I will work much harder next year. I need to apply to all the intended colleges that I want to go to. I need to study and take the SAT’s, and just basically be prepared for all of that next year,” he added.
Fun is also a part of that hectic schedule.
“I am really going to try to enjoy my high school career, of course. I want to be there for all my classmates here in GCA. We’ve all known each other since we were in the first grade, it is going to be hard to leave this all behind,” Sablan said.
Graduates
In the meantime, the former seniors who have accomplished high school academia plan to go for gold as they reach for college glory.
“I am going to miss my classmates and the things that I have learned here in GCA,” said Charis Dunn B. Lopez of GCA.
“With me, I think I will miss that but also the routine of a high school day. The classes, exams and quizzes, everything is going to be different when I do get to college. It isn’t going to be the same,” said Da Min Kim of GCA.
NMC graduate Daniel Villegas says of how “high school was pretty good. I really enjoyed my senior year and I am ready for college. My high school experience was really different considering I was home schooled for half of it. I am grateful that I had my church group friends in terms of the social aspect,” said the 17 year old.
Villegas will spend the summer working in Saipan and will go to Hawaii to attend the Bringham Young University.
“I am so excited, although I hope I will never forget how Saipan is my home. I hope I will never forget the pride I now feel from being from Saipan,” he said.
Lopez will be “taking community college first and working at my brother’s business to make some money at the states. Afterwards, I will go and attend a university and major as a computer engineer,” he said.
Kim will head back to her home town at South Korea, Seoul and attend a university there before making a transfer to the States. “I want to take my Masters in International Relations at the States,” she said.
