With summer just days away, students and teachers, as we all know, are eagerly anticipating their summer plans. For those of you wondering what others are doing for their break, the Falconer interviewed several students and teachers to see exactly what everyone is doing.

Freshmen:

Ellie Low is going to Shasta, California and is excited to go down there because of the many childhood memories it brings since her family used to go down there every year when she was growing up. She says, “I am excited to spend time with my family as well as go boating everyday and doing my favorite thing which is wakeboarding!”

Mitchell Rask is planning on taking many trips out of state to visit family and see new places. He says, “I’m going to Florida in June for a month and then from there go to the country Trinidad and then Tobago for a few weeks. Then in July I’m going to Hawaii for a week or so, and then maybe France if my dad doesn’t have to work in August.”

Nicole Khoury is planning on mostly staying home, hanging out with her friends, going to local pools or rivers, spending time with her family, and participating in some camps and classes at La Salle over the summer. She says, “I’m also looking forward to a family trip to San Diego!”

Jake Bunker is planning on going to Sun River in Bend, Oregon. He says, “I am most excited about not going to school.”

Sophomores: 

Bao Huynh is excited to attend the German Immersion Trip this summer. He says, “When I get home I am probably going to do some volunteering for Providence as well.”

Souria Luyamba is planning on spending a lot more time with her friends during than summer than she usually does during the school year. She says, “I’m most excited about road tripping to California and Seattle with my friends! I want this summer to be just crazy adventures and fun times! No regrets this summer.”

Matty Karcsay is going to visit her dad down in Arizona and is planning on a lot of training for soccer. She says, “I also am going to a leadership camp in July called OASC and that’s probably what I’m most excited about.”

Richard Nguy will be creating adventurous memories while he travels the world during this upcoming summer vacation. He will first stop at Hawaii before going on to visit Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam. He says, “I will be taking my first steps into traveling the world. Even though I’ve been out of America, this will be the first time I will leave the continent.”

 Juniors:

Emmerson Smith is going to visit some colleges and is also going to be playing in some volleyball camps so that she may be recruited for college. She says, “I am most excited to hang out with my family and relax and not worry about homework.”

Joseph Hoang will be staying more local over the summer, but will be adventuring and spending time with friends. He is planning to go backpacking and hiking with his friends for 5 days straight. He says, “I’m really excited to just go on adventures with my friends around Oregon.”

Jared Fontenette is planning on going camping with Aliyah for the first time and is going to visit and spend time with his family. She says, “My goal this summer is to get all of my college applications done this summer so that I will not have to deal with them senior year.”

Aliyah Klein will be going camping with Jared and his family this summer in Washington as well as boating. She says, “Jared hates kids so he will have to deal with my little sister.”

Seniors:

Peter Gustason is going to be working with his dad as a mechanic and then in late August will be heading to college. He says, “I am most excited about going to college and meeting new friends in Texas.”

Ally Jansen is going to visit places such as Italy, Greece, and Germany with her family. She says, “I am also going with some friends to a country music festival in August, and then to Lake Chelan as well. This summer, I will also be nannying, which I am very excited for.”

Brendan Quinn is going to be hanging out with his friends before they all head to different colleges and working to save up money for college as well. He says, “It’s going to be a lot of work and swimming at my buddy Josh’s house.”

Ellie Choate is going to head to New Orleans, Lousiana, to visit her new college roommate. She says, “I’ve never been before so I’m super excited to see the lifestyle there and explore the area!”

Teachers: 

Ms. Kelvin is going to be spending most of her free time in the woods. She says, “I want to sleep under the stars and backpack a lot.”

Mr. Killgore will be heading up to Bristol Bay, Alaska for the summer to participate in commercial fishing, one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, spending a month at a time at sea. He says, “There will be some days where we won’t sleep. Last year we had about a week and a half of working about twenty hour days.”

Ms. Kessler is planning on having a ‘staycation’ during the summer and remaining mostly in the local area, but does have some free tickets that may lead to the possibility of a fun trip and is hoping to surprise her husband by going somewhere.

Mr. Doran has a busy summer planned. He will be focusing a lot on educational training and classroom teaching. He is going to teach a speech and debate class at La Salle and an education class at the University of Portland as well as taking a training that will assist him in teaching AP Government next year. He will be taking two trips with his family: one to Vancouver, B.C. and then is going to travel to California with family. He says, “I will also be going on a lot of bike rides and enjoying all of the things that the Portland area has to offer over the summer.”

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