HIGH LIFE : Australia, Love and Other Summertime Dreams Unfulfilled

No matter how much time you have, it’s never enough to do everything you want.

So with the start of school just around the corner, this week’s Hot Topics asks: “What’s the one thing you wanted to do over this summer vacation but didn’t?”

“Buy a car.”

Caine Moss, 16,

Senior, Dana Hills

“Visit Russia.”

Richard Hartzell, 16,

Senior, Dana Hills

“I wanted to learn how to water ski.”

Kindra Larson, 17,

Senior, Dana Hills

“Go to New York to see my dad and ride his jet skis.”

Rochelle Clark, 17,

Senior, Dana Hills

“Make enough money to buy a new car.”

Kevin App, 18,

Senior, Estancia

“Go to Hawaii.”

Andy Scholes, 18,

Senior, Estancia

“I wish I were able to go to Mammoth with our cross-country team.”

Karen Faure, 16,

Junior, Foothill

“I wish I were able to go to Hawaii.”

Sarah Holmes, 13,

freshman, Foothill

“I wanted to get a boyfriend or learn how to drive a stick shift.”

Anne Mary Ordway, 16,

Junior, Foothill

“I wanted to learn karate and how to drive.”

Mary Louise Ordway, 15,

Sophomore, Foothill

“Travel to different states. It would be a good experience.”

Stacy Taylor, 15,

Sophomore, Foothill

“I wish I would have locked my sister in the closet at the beginning of the summer.”

Karen Corwin, 13,

freshman, Foothill

“I really wanted to go to the Def Leppard concert, but I couldn’t find the time to get the tickets.”

Keri Kabat, 17,

Senior, Loara

“I wanted to get my record released that I’ve been working on but it didn’t happen; hopefully, we will see it in the fall.”

Chris Finch, 14,

Sophomore, Loara

“I wanted to go camping for the weekend with my friends, but we couldn’t get a cabin.”

Nimisha Gohil, 17,

Senior, Orange

“I went to Australia, so I did basically what I wanted to do. I also wanted to bum around and be a couch potato and lie in bed all day.”

Rachel Ward, 17,

Senior, Orange

“I didn’t go to Catalina Island or water ski. I didn’t get to leave California. I didn’t even leave Orange!”

Steve Schrock, 17,

Senior, Orange

“I wanted to meet this gorgeous guy and, hopefully fall in love, but if I have to settle for something I didn’t get to do, it would be that I didn’t go to Australia.”

Mykle Parker, 17,

Senior, Orange

“Travel . . . to go to places I’ve never been and to make new friends.”

Jorge Rivero, 17,

Senior, Santa Ana

“I wanted to go to Australia.”

Ana Zambrano, 14, sophomore,

Southern California Christian

“Work, because I was too busy with other things I had to do.”

Mitzy Buckridge, 18, senior,

Southern California Christian

“To go water and jet skiing because I was unable to do either.”

Reuben Montijo, 17, senior,

Southern California Christian

“I wanted to go to Miami just for the heck of it.”

Sheny Gutierrez, 14,

Sophomore, Tustin

Next Week’s Hot Topic: What’s your resolution for the new school year?

Hot Topic responses gathered by Chris Bergerud, Joanna Brooks, Soojin Kang, Chi Mai, Monica Neal, Hai Pham, Gabriel Saldivar.