With all the countless cliches aside, senior year is coming to an end incredibly fast. A little faster than what I’m comfortable with. The last four years have undoubtedly been filled with some of the best days, as well as some of the absolute worst; but have treated me kindly nonetheless.

Walking onto Colton High’s campus as a mere freshman was both intimidating and invigorating. Meeting new people left and right while still seeing familiar faces was comforting. I came across new humans everyday but still had my hother 4 life, Vanessa, right by my side just as I have for over ten years.

I had a solid core group of friends coming into high school and lucky enough, I’m leaving with them. Andrea, Estefania, Heidy, and Jessica being my main ladies all four years. I met Yvette, Aida, Aleyah and Sarah about a year ago and they’re still the bees knees. Alfonso has been my very best chum for five years while Matt, Harrison and Joey have become really important to me over the course of junior and senior year.

Each and every friend I’ve made, kept or lost has shaped me into who I’ll be once I leave Colton High School’s campus. Boring days, to the exciting ones, sad days, to the overly hyper ones, the memorable ones, to the ones everyone forgot: High school was still school but it was by far the time of my life. Things are only looking up. Positive, positive, positive.

(Editor’s Note: Due to an unforeseen error, reporter Desiree Zamora’s story that was supposed to appear in the Senior Farewell (hard copy) edition of the Pepper Bough, which was distributed on campus on Friday, May 10, did not appear. We hereby apologize to Desiree and present her story here on our website.)