You would never think that students would be happy to go back to school after break. That's not the situation with Carlé.

On the first day after the two-week break, every kid had a smile on his or her face. We also had the wonderful surprise of new doorknobs, new front doors and new windows throughout the school.

We would like to thank maintenance for installing all these wonderful gifts that we will enjoy for the rest of the time we spend in Carlé High School.

We are happy to say that this is not the only good news for Carlé.

Alan Siegel, our media room teacher, went on a trip down to the Mac Convention to get Carlé High School a better masking process, called Fluid Mask, for our computers.

He had bought one disk, and the creator of the process, James Carr, was so generous to Carlé that he gave us three more. It was nearly $600 of new software! He has so much trust in Carlé that he gave us the opportunity to beta test his new software suite for him. Carlé High School will be proud to test this new software.

To start out a wonderful new year in Carlé High School, more students graduated in the past week.

Alex Meek and Kim Fuller graduated on Monday, Jan. 12, and Atlee Erickson and Katie Flannery graduated on Thursday, Jan. 15. We wish them all good luck for their future paths.

With more students leaving Carlé High School, more must come in. We would like to welcome Halei Askew, Cody Blas, Chantelle Clemons, Michael Day, April Rutherford, Kaitlyn Sliger, Kinesha Wilson, Leninica Spikes and Cassandra Smith. We hope they will enjoy their stay at Carlé High School.

It is always a wonderful thing when students help out the staff. For that, we would like to thank Shaun Hignite and Leana Efestione for helping out Barbara in the office for lunch. As they help with her job, Barbara is given times to have a nice, peaceful lunch, her only one half hour break she takes during the whole day! We would like to thank Barbara for working so hard everyday, too.

Also we would like to thank Bonny Passley, Dylan Sheldon and Amanda Tchamourian for help with community service at the Lower Lake Community Action Group dinner. Thank you to all for making Carlé High School a friendly, helpful environment.

Amanda Tchamourian is this year's Carlé Chronicle correspondent.

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