"On Christmas Eve we eat food like pozole and tamales, then on Christmas day we open presents and just spend the day with family," Zayury Ochoa, 10, said.

"On New Years we cook steak and watch football with the family, it's great," Dakota Norris, 10, said.

"The Seniors will obviously win because [of] seniority," Lilian Nguyen, 12, said. "It's our last year, so it makes sense."

"Over the holidays, we host a motorcycle soccer tournament at our farm," Football coach, Don Card said. "We play soccer on motorcycles, hence the name."

"I think algebra 2 is going to be the hardest final, in general math isn't my subject," said junior Misty Rico.

"Over the Thanksgiving break me and my family are going to unite and spend Thanksgiving with each other," Ricardo Castañeda, 10, said. "We're also going to eat food like turkey and all that other good...

"First semester is going horrible, it's not enough school sprit, [and] no one comes to the football games," Junior Bobbi McCauley said.

“Avid showed us what would happen if you weren’t organized and how you would fail,” Mustafa Najem, 11. “That’s why I’m passing now.”

“I started a new journey as an educator [over the summer],” Tiffiani Cofield, photojournalism teacher.

“The wildest thing that happened to me this summer was my car [getting] stolen twice.", Immanol Hernandez, 9 said. “Two [guys] came [during] the night and drove off with it. They stole all the equipment...

“Band has taught me to do hard work,” Isaac McMillan, 11. “Also I just want to have fun and it’s fun to be in band. It’s just a really good crowd.”

“I almost got kidnapped 3 times at a butcher shop in the Philippines. There was guys in a van trying to sell me meat and I didn’t speak Tagalog, which is the language of the Philippines. [It was recommended]...