Nick Atashbar and Aaron Murillo share a bond that has grown since first meeting
This school year at the ASB Bootcamp senior Nick Atashbar and sophomore Aaron Murillo met each other and have been friends since. Murillo is always helping out Atashbar in the student store.
ATASHBAR: I’ll miss this guy. He is always helping me out every time in the student store. He’s been a big help. Honestly I think without him the student store would probably be a mess. He kind of keeps it together.
MURILLO: I’ll miss my mentor. It’s always a vibe to hangout with Nick. He always makes me laugh. We have fun moments. I learn a lot from him.
ATASHBAR: I think ever since day one we’ve been like that. When we first started, I was like I know that guy is gonna be the manager. He’s gonna be my next manager. I saw the spark in him and then the spark grew and we were like homeboys.
MURILLO: Yeah since day one, since the boot camp, his little pop-up that he had caught my eye and then we have just been talking ever since. We became, you know, homeboys. Since day one we just kept talking, laughing, joking around and I learned a lot from him
ATASHBAR: Yeah, definitely if he ever needs help he can call me. If he ever needs help like doing his college apps or anything like that when he goes to college, if he needs any help in anything like that, like math, or something like that he can just hit me up and I’ll be there,
MURILLO: If I have any questions, I’m for sure gonna go to him. And if he ever needs anything like advice or just someone to talk to, I’m always gonna be there for him.
ATASHBAR: I think my favorite memory was probably that one time we did the rally setup and we were playing basketball in the gym. That was a good day. I think it was the homecoming rally we got in the small gym and we had to wait for the volleyball team game to be finished so we were just in there setting up. It was an ASB late night and we saw basketballs were open so we started playing basketball.
MURILLO: That was also probably my favorite memory. We had a lot of fun. It was very competitive
Gael Jimenez and Ken Lee reflect upon their time together on the Yearbook and Newspaper staff
As graduation approaches, the bond between two yearbook staff members grows exponentially stronger. Senior Gael Jimenz and Sophomore Kenneth Lee reflect upon their time together as great friends from the first semester to the present.
JIMENEZ: I will miss seeing him every day. He’s very funny and kind and we just mess around. He makes work feel like a hobby instead of work
LEE: One thing I’ll miss about Gael is his stupidity. I mean you do have a lot of stupidity which makes it entertaining. No, there’s also more things like his work ethic, him getting the yearbook under control. He’s like Batman but stupid.
JIMENEZ: You’re Robin
JIMENEZ: “I was mentioning to everyone yesterday that when Kenneth first came, I didn’t like him. I found him annoying. He was screaming childish stuff. I’m like ‘I’m gonna hate this kid.’ But then we were in a group together and started talking, and his stupidity matches my stupidity. So we mix it to make it more stupidity.”
LEE: See, I told you his stupidity works
JIMENEZ: Oh, you’re stupid, too.
LEE: Uh let’s see, I don’t really remember the first time we met at all. All I remember was Me and Gael talked and then boom! We ended up here.
The two chat about the next year.
LEE: Yeah, Imma tell him when I become editor
JIMENEZ: If Kenneth makes varisty [volleyball], I will be at every one of his home games.
Ken: I’ll tell him when something happens and we need him. It’ll be like the Bat Signal.
JIMENEZ: I’ve offered Kenneth if he needs help with his stuff later. I am volunteering.
Ken: You see, Bat Signal.
JIMENEZ: My favorite memory with Kenneth? Hmm, I don’t know. I think every single time that we do something, it’s my favorite memory with Ken. He’s hilarious.
Ken: I think my favorite memory was dropping Gael when he tried to jump into my arms. Hey, it was a funny moment.
JIMENEZ: I think my pain is your favorite thing.
Mak Perry and Lola Bauer talk about their time together over the school year through water.
A lowerclassman and upperclassman bond Mak Perry and Lola Bauer started talking after Perry became a water polo/swims photographer.
PERRY: I’ll miss Lola on the pool deck, you know like when we just see each other after not seeing each other for a while and just smiling and laughing catching up. I’ll just miss being able to do that as often as we do and now it’s gonna be less often when I’m not here everyday
BAUER: I’m gonna miss when we would go on the buses and we would hangout and talk after a long game it’s really difficult not being able to see him anymore as often, and I’m gonna miss having our long talks about our favorite characters and all that.
PERRY: We’ll still be able to send each other tiktoks.
BAUER: We met at the football game, but not really, and we gradually started talking more after Mak became our photographer for water polo, and I wanted some good shots. And then we got each other’s socials and we started seeing that we had some interest in characters and all that and we would send.
PERRY: Edits you know
BAUER: We would bond over people.
PERRY: Our bond has grown quite a lot. I mean we were kinda not very close obviously at the beginning.
BAUER: We were opps. I mean not really.
PERRY: But I mean we just had one mutual friend or like two mutual friends and it was Alex Aaron and Kayla and Jazz.
BAUER: Yeah, they were the only ones.
PERRY: So like being around each other kind of got us used to each other, but we didn’t talk. When we started talking, we were like on the pool deck or whatever and our bond went stem from there and now we’re like a duo.
BAUER: Father daughter duo, right?
PERRY: Yes, father daughter duo.
BAUER: Hell yeah, I’ll enforce it.
PERRY: I’ll come back and visit, you know, and come to games because I have to support my child.
BAUER: Because I’m a D1 athlete right here.
BAUER: My favorite memory is when he took me in his car and we were driving around and I was late to practice and got yelled at. I had to to 10 push ups because of him.
PERRY: And I just walked in like nothing happened.
BAUER: That was my favorite memory.
Jesus Lupian and Mario Elenes look back their time together in Spanish class
Senior Jesus Lupian and Sophomores Mario Elenes Sosa consider their funniest and worst moments while in their Spanish 3 class together.
LUPIAN: I’ll miss sharing a bunch of laughs in Spanish class.
ELENES: Yeah, me, too. We just talk about basically everything.
LUPIAN: And laughing at me for my bad Spanish.
LUPIAN: At first when he was a freshman, we didn’t interacted as much, but since we had Spanish together it really opened a whole new pathway.
ELENES: Yeah, when I joined the volleyball team, I knew he was there. We never really talked because he was like varsity and I was soph/frosh. And in Spanish class because we’re the only ones that knew each other, we started talking.
LUPIAN: Um, Well maybe not in person. Maybe on like Instagram and stuff
ELENES: Yeah
LUPIAN: There was a time. It was finals day for the first quarter of Spanish and we got our results back, and I failed it so bad, we were just laughing at it.
ELENES: Yeah we were just laughing because I thought he was lying, but. nah, he didn’t want me to see his test. I was like, nah, but like it was funny because it was bad.
Bromance
Caiden Aguilar and Danny Guerreo share their brotherly bond they had this year
As the 2024 Boys volleyball season ends, two friends dwell on their time together as teammates and why they are the best of friends..
AGUILAR: His humor. Yeah, his humor and also he can make me laugh a lot.
GUERREO: He takes us a lot of places. He was reliable. He’s one of my favorite friends.
AGUILAR:I used to be scared of him. Well, not scared of him, like I thought we wouldn’t be as close. Now he’s like my older brother.
GUERREO: He’s like my little brother, my little bro.
GUERREO: We’re going to the same club team, too, so that’s another thing that we’re gonna keep in touch with.