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Letter from the Managing Editor
THE FACT THAT LIFE MOVES on without you is hard to grasp, but it is one that I have been confronted with a lot lately. One day, your little cousin will visit you wearing your old hand-me-downs, your older sister will graduate from college and work a stuffy office job and you will find your grandmother's smile lines slightly more pronounced and realize that she, too, grows up.
The senior class faces the realization that Gables will also move on without us. For now, though, we get to make changes and experience them as they come.
For one, senior Hamyail Bokhari brings back the bhangra club after a two-year-long break, as rhythmic Indian folk dance returns to Gables. It also offers a new level of diversity in the activities offered at our school, encouraging those of South Asian descent to hopefully for many years to come (page 5). Gables has also seen a significant increase in applications and opened a waitlist for the first time in years. After being named an A-level school and gaining a strong, well–earned reputation, the school enters a new phase in its life, just as we do (page 9).
As for sports, the Paris Saint-Germain Soccer Club has launched a new program to support students' athletic development, both mental and physical (page 18).
Miami-Dade will also make developments across the school district, as plans are made to push school starting times later, eliciting mixed feelings from students (pages 12-13).
Additionally, for those who are like me and chomping at the bit to leave Miami, the city makes changes that we will not be privy to after this year. For the next few months, we take the good and bad—despite fervent wishes to move away and embrace change of our own.
In our city, plans to build even more highways are underway, much to the dismay of its insufficient (to say the least) transit system (pages 28-31). To be fair, that is one change I will be okay missing.
Life would be boring if it just stopped without us in it. Our school, parents and friends will change when we leave Gables' halls—the comforting part is that we can make room for change in ourselves.
