Creative Writing

Poem: ‘I wish my city was safer’

I wish my city was safer. I never knew how dangerous it was Until he got robbed for a phone in his own block, But what I thought was funny Was how, in the situation he was in, he knew what to do? How does a 17-year-old person know what to do? When a gun…
<a href="https://highschool.latimes.com/author/kathleen5335/" target="_self">Kathleen Campo</a>

Kathleen Campo

November 2, 2017

I wish my city was safer.

I never knew how dangerous it was

Until he got robbed for a phone in his own block,

But what I thought was funny

Was how, in the situation he was in, he knew what to do?

How does a 17-year-old person know what to do?

When a gun is pointing straight at you.

But what’s funnier is how he got his phone back.

We live in the same block, there’s rules they must follow.

 

Scholar-athlete Cody Going: off to Division 1

Scholar-athlete Cody Going: off to Division 1

Cody Going has been in Mission Viejo high school’s football program, a team ranked number four in California by MaxPreps, for five long years. From his time in eighth grade to now he’s been able to see the athletes at Mission Viejo High grow from teammates to a...