We Give Thanks For …

Mon., Nov. 20, 2000

Sometimes we may hide it behind teenage cool, but we really are grateful for many things. Here’s a few of the things Our Generation correspondents say they’re thankful for this holiday season:

“All my family and friends are healthy. I have a safe and warm place to sleep at night. Jones Green Apple soda.”

Theresa Carpine

ferris

“I am thankful for a spoken and written language, antibiotics (because without such I would be dead several times by now), and a sense of humor (because without such I would be dead several times by now).”

Dani Peterson

mt. spokane

“I’m thankful I was born into a middle-class family with a gas-heated home, full refrigerator and three TV sets. I’m thankful for parents who nag at me to always be careful and `turn down that rap music.’ And I’m thankful for scholarships and college applications that safeguard my future.”

Nick Ross

gonzaga prep

“A family that cares, food and friends.”

Alice Hale

west valley contract-based education

“I’m thankful for my family, my school and the fact that there is no banana shortage in Missouri.”

Kathy Bula

east valley

“Jesus dying on the cross for us. The Christians who gave their lives to spread the Gospel and give us freedom. My friends.”

Daniel Bigler

christian heritage

“I am thankful for the loves of my life: my family, my friends and my computer.”

August Wyssman

ferris

“I am thankful for my family’s health and welfare. I’m thankful for that spinach dish my mom makes. (Yum!) And I’m thankful for the guy who invented vanilla milkshakes.”

Bryn Garrehy

ferris

“Things I’m thankful for: contact lenses, rubber duckies, prescription drugs, babies who smile at you in the grocery-store checkout line, modern politics.”

Julie Kanago

central valley

“I’m thankful for my family, parents who love me, my best friend Andie, my faith and my job.”

Jennifer Kassner

spokane falls community college

“I’m thankful that my suffering through high school will be over in a year and a half, that monkeys haven’t learned to fly and that I haven’t talked to a telephone salesperson in nearly three weeks.”

Tyler Wilson

coeur d’Alene

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