Changing chapters

By Kristie Nguyen

By September 25th or so, I would enroll at Cindy Avitia: Alpha High School, a charter school with a 92.1% Hispanic/Latino population and a 5.3% Asian population, a non-predominant Asian school with decent reviews online. As a Vietnamese-American who's been on YB's campus since 7th grade with most of my friends here, it is heartbreaking and devastating to leave this school but it's for the best of my own. Even with the challenges and uncertainties I'll face in my new school, I am determined to embrace it with the same enthusiasm and passion that I've poured into my time here.

In my final September here, I've had the pleasure of participating in several clubs, including Bakers' Dozen, Podcast, Music, KNIT4URLIFE, JRX, and Yearbook, making new friends every year. Doing yearbook and clubs, capturing the experience of memories for myself and others, and being able to learn more than what I ever could about myself have been some of the most rewarding experiences of my life.

I'll never forget spending time with many people here, from going to Walmart, and Food Truck Fridays, and helping them make brownies. As I embark on this new adventure, I carry with me joyous, boring, stressful, vulnerable, but all loving memories.

I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to all of you—teachers, staff, friends, and fellow students—for being a part of my life and making this school a place of warmth, learning, and growth. You've all played a significant role in shaping who I am today.

As sad as it is to leave Yerba Buena behind, it also fills me with hope and excitement for future adventures. Making new friends, embracing new challenges, and still continuing some club duties await me here.

I want to conclude by saying that this is not the end but merely a new beginning. I carry the memories here in my heart, and they will serve as a constant reminder of the amazing journey I've had here. I like to think that our story isn't over just yet, that someday we'll meet again and write more memories together.

After all I've been through, I hope I will not be forgotten nor missed, but be remembered as I was once part of you. Never let that go. Thank you, Warriors Of All.

For Warriors Times, I'm Kristie N.