What I'm Thankful For?

by Yessenia Sanchez


If your Catholic or into your own religion or possibly forced to pray , or what have you , you may understand how to be thankful and show it within others. Theses things are taught or learned by parents, siblings, family members, and friends. There is  a saying that everyone knows and many people say "You don't know what you have, until you lose it", I personally like to add in at the end "so be thankful that you have it now than realize it at the end."

I'm thankful that I have a family because many children don't grow up with one, I'm thankful that I have a home to go to, have a bed to lay on, have 3 meals a day to eat. I'm thankful that I have all the things that many children and kids can't have or don't have. I'm also thankful for life and love, because without these two things I wouldn't have been here today, writing in this blog, going to school and enjoying every moment of it, because before you know it it can all be gone.

I'm going to graduate the year 2015, that's in two years and one more school year from now. My high school moments are almost going to be over in just two years! So I have to make the best of it because coming back to theses moments are hard and I have to make them as memorable as possible. Having free access to education from kindergarden to 12th grade is amazing and being able to make friends every new school year is something to be truly thankful for.

A Collage: Wildlife Around Burbank

By: Shafay

     I am very thankful to Mr.Hull and my friend,  named Shy Boy,  because they helped to create a beautiful picture. It's kind of difficult to make a collage. It took me like three hours to create this collage. The more difficult part is to cut out each photo.  It took me like 20 minutes apiece.

But I'm so happy that I learned how to create a photo collage. The thing I learned in this process is its about mind then, hand. You don't have to be good artist to create a photo collage,  you just need to have a smart mind.

Editorial: Mr.Hull's Newspaper class is Important

  By: Daveana Owens

Mr. Hull's after school class Newspaper should be really important to our school. We provide good information whether it is about movies or just about school activities. It is also a good and fun place to be if you are interested in journalism.

In the class, Mr. Hull introduced all of his students to our online newspaper, the Titan Ledger. Where we get to post everything we find interesting or what he tells us to review and inform others. We inform not just only our school but other people all around the world. Everything we post it will be read by anybody who comes upon our newspaper. It's not as easy as people think it is. We really have to be focused on certain things. We really have to watch the news a lot which is a part of journalism. Knowing the facts and to be ready to tell the world about it.
   
     

Health Corps Cooking Club

Monday,  November  4, 2013                                                                                       By: Jana Lee

 The Health Corps Cooking Club today made a quesadilla with corn,mozzarella, mild taco seasoning, salt, chili powder, diced onions and tortilla. The students in the cooking club were quite verbal that the quesadilla was good and healthy. The cooking club also made kale chips. The ingredients were fresh kale, seasoning salt, vinegar and chili powder. The students then tossed the ingredients together, put it on a pan and then they baked it at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.

The Quesadilla and Kale chips can easily be made at home by using fresh, local ingredients!

What I Am Thankful For

By: Salmaan Khan

I am thankful for my family. When I need help they are there for me. When I don't know something they tell me. They help me in my homework, online classes, etc..

Mom and Dad gave me whatever I want by showing my school work. My grades have always been good.

 I am thankful for my teachers they help me to learn. Every day I learn new things. I am thankful for what I am today. I am also thankful for having such a great family.

Titan Tennis Doubles Struggle At Conference Meet

Maisy Vue puts all of her five-foot-one-inch frame into every serve and every ground stroke she hits on the tennis court. Her two older sisters were also tennis players in high school so she had a little bit of family history when it came to playing the sport at Luther Burbank High School.

But on Oct. 31, Vue, the school’s number one singles player, teamed up with teammate Girlmu Vue in the Metro Conference’s super doubles competition at the Natomas Racquet Club and found out real quick playing the doubles game is a whole lot different than singles. 

Burbank tennis player Girlmu Vue

“It was a whole lot more competitive than singles,” Vue said. “When you are up close to the net you’re trying to hit it hard at them. When you’re on the baseline, you’re just trying to get the ball over the net.”

The Vues were dispatched quickly from the event, 8-1, by the number two doubles team from Kennedy, Anstonia Ma and Shannon Lee.

Maisy wishes she and Girlmu could have hung around and played a bit longer on that cool fall morning, but just getting the opportunity to play tennis was fine, she said.

“It’s a different experience, but worth it,” she said.

Later on, though, Maisy was awarded an All-Conference Player patch. She made the quarterfinals of the singles tournament a couple days earlier, thus she qualified for the honor, the only Burbank player to earn the award.

She was grinning ear-to-ear as she brought her patch back to school. A senior, her competitive tennis career was now over. An excellent student in the classroom she’ll go to college.

“Tennis from now on will be a hobby,” she said.

The event was a fun thing to be a part of for her, Girlmu and the number two Burbank doubles duo of Pang Ying and Patricia Ojeda. All the girls seemed to giggle with each other every time a shot went awry, even pounded accidently over the tall fences surrounding the Racquet  Club.

Not a word of trash talking, typical now-a-days in most high school sports, was heard anywhere. No haranguing of officials, either. In fact, there were none. The players, themselves, called balls knocked out of bounds. They almost never argued with each other on those types of calls.

During breaks in the matches, a friendly word is exchanged with each other. They all have one thing in common and that is tennis.

Unlike the more experienced, more tennis-savvy players on the McClatchy and Kennedy teams, many schools like Burbank, Florin and Valley (Sacramento and Johnson, two other Metro Conference schools, don’t field tennis teams) struggle a bit to field players with much experience in the sport. Maisy has played for four years. Her Titan teammates have less experience.

On Thursday, all those schools’ doubles teams were out after the first round. McClatchy’s girls, many of who play year-round and take personal lessons, placed three doubles squads in the semi-finals.

By finishing that high at the conference meet, it assured all of them a spot in the Sac-Joaquin Section’s Division II Individual Tennis Championships Nov. 7 and 8 at the Johnson Ranch Racquet Club in Roseville.

Valley’s Rachel Cuellar and Chienne Vang did find a way to defeat a pair from Rosemont in the opening round and took Ma and Lee pretty deep into the quarter-final match before losing, 6-6 (5-7), 2-6.

On Monday, the Valley squad kept up its improved play by winning its opening match of the Division II team playoffs. They defeated Patterson, 6-3. Tuesday, the Vikings played Bella Vista in the next round of the team championships.

While McClatchy, the Metro’s top seed in the Division II team championships, was outfitted in some of the finest in tennis gear and uniforms, the other schools seemed to just have something that appeared to match.

The girls didn’t seem to mind. They enjoyed opportunity to play on the picturesque courts of the Natomas club. Everyone walked away with smiles, and some Halloween candy bars.

Tennis is fun for them. 

Halloween Haunted House

The Key Club made a very scary Haunted House for the elementary school kid's at Bowling Green Elementary School and their progress was well as seen in the pictures below and it actually looked like it was a Haunted House in the graveyard with dead people and zombies, ghost and vampires.

It was an annual event in Luther Burbank High School and the young kids had lots of fun and enjoyed it very well.

Haunting Goblins in the Key Club Haunted House

Eeary lights, too

No haunted house is complete without
plenty of cobwebs