To be perfectly honest, I’m not one for having New Year
Resolutions, simply for the fact that I forget them within weeks. Nevertheless,
this is Journalism class, and we
students must write possible
resolutions for the new school year. However, what makes this appealing to me
is that we have to make it realistic, but it doesn’t have to be academically
related or even related to school in itself. Yay for Journalism class!
When I think about the new school year and goals I have in
store, the first thing that comes into mind is: never ever get warned about, talked to about,
or criticized about what I wear to school. My school is beginning to enforce a
new “student dress-code” in which students are prohibited to wear tight-fitting,
sagging, short, or sexually provocative/inappropriate clothing. At first, any
normal adult would think “Oh, that is legitimate. GO DRESS CODE!” At first, any
normal teenager would think “No big deal”. However, when I heard about the new
dress-code, I practically erupted into sassy fury. I couldn’t wrap my head
around the fact that SIS now has a dress-code that is strictly enforced. The
fashion runway of Saipan is constantly displaying shorts, tank tops, and
sundresses; how are the girls supposed to wear jeans all year long in this camouflaged
inferno? This made me so upset because I had spent a lot of money buying all of
these cute clothes over the summer! Obviously, I want to show off my new wardrobe,
but how can I do this when I’m constantly worrying about violating the school’s
dress code? Yeah, I’m definitely going to try not to get “dress-coded”. 
Being more responsible as a daughter of an Asian mother has
granted me some privileges, like more freedom to go out. As another goal for
this year, I would LOVE to go cliff diving with a bunch of my friends. It sounds
a little far-fetched, I realize that. However, for a girl who can barely swim, I
can dive pretty decently. Besides, it’s “cliff-diving” not “swim-for-your-life”.
I hope to be able to go out during Spring break, the only break us students
have before the big May AP exams. It would really allow us to have some fun
before the most stressful time of our lives approaches. In addition, I’m an
adrenaline-junkie (GUILTY!). To me, running off of a rocky cliff into the ocean
sounds exciting yet refreshing. I would be able to get the zest of being in the
air for a couple seconds (even though I’m falling, which is actually incredibly
thrilling) and then dive into a stimulating pool of water. I might be crazy - and
I don’t mind you thinking that way because I think that way about myself, too –
but this just HAS to be one of the things I do before my Junior Year ends.
Over the summer, I traveled the depths of Peru with my class
as well as the current sophomore class. While we had returned to Lima for the
last couple of days, we visited a hospital – a children’s hospital. I’ll admit,
in the beginning I was kind of scared because I have a slight fear of coming
into contact with people that are ill. However, that fear escaped me as soon as
I put on a green apron (it shows that we are volunteers for the Children’s
Hospital) and slipped my cellphone into my back pocket. Minutes had passed and I
already formed a deep connection with the children at the hospital. For a
second, I regarded everyone as a patient; after I saw one of the little girls’
eyes light up at the sight of me, I saw every child as a person – as a child. My
experience there impacted my life so much that one of my goals this year is to
return to the Children’s Hospital in Lima. The likelihood of that happening is
extremely slim, especially with money needed for summer plans, but I won’t stop
trying.
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