{"id":277565,"date":"2018-06-06T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=277565"},"modified":"2018-06-06T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T20:00:18","slug":"taisacan-36-others-move-to-senior-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/taisacan-36-others-move-to-senior-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Taisacan, 36 others move to senior high"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-277565 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/taisacan-36-others-move-to-senior-high\/sabina-leann-barcinas-taisacan\/'>Sabina Leann Barcinas Taisacan<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-277566'>\n\t\t\t\tSabina Leann Barcinas Taisacan\nValedictorian\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/taisacan-36-others-move-to-senior-high\/samantha-rose-quitugua-manglona\/'>Samantha Rose Quitugua Manglona<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-277567'>\n\t\t\t\tSamantha Rose Quitugua Manglona\nSalutatorian\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Sabina Leann Barcinas Taisacan led 36 of her classmates who will be moving up to 9th grade next school year, with Dr. Rita Hocog Inos Junior\/Senior High School having its promotion ceremony on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Taisacan, the class valedictorian, also received the CNMI State Board of Education and Rota Mayor\u2019s awards.<\/p>\n<p>Taisacan, in her valedictory address, said it has been her dream to finish at the top of her class. \u201cIt is such an honor to be standing before you all today\u2026This has always been a dream of mine since I was in 6th grade. But, to be honest, I never thought my dream could come true. I wasn\u2019t always the best nor the brightest student in middle school. I\u2019ve never received as much\u2026awards than others,\u201d added Taisacan.<\/p>\n<p>She sometimes felt that she wasn\u2019t good enough even after bringing home other awards. \u201cI remember bringing whatever award I had home and showing them to my parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though they said I did a \u2018good job,\u2019 I still felt like a failure because there was always this thought replaying in my head, saying, \u2018You\u2019re not good enough, you\u2019re not smart enough, you\u2019re too dumb to do anything right.\u2019 I tried my best not to believe that recurring thought, but sometimes I would be compared to others, so I eventually gave in to that thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taisacan overcame her insecurities with the help of her homeroom teacher and friends. \u201cI started becoming strong\u2026even though many still made assumptions and doubted me. I still had my dark days. It took me a long time to realize that there was a rainbow, a rainbow of happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Class salutatorian Samantha Rose Quitugua Manglona, who received the Commissioner of Education award, said the years that they would spend in high school will be crucial. \u201cDiscovering oneself can be scary and intimidating when you have expectations coming at you from every corner. Expectations of having the perfect job in the future, straight A\u2019s, and the list goes on,\u201d she said. \u201cMore than ever, it is important that we listen to ourselves. Trust that you know what makes you happy. Success can only be defined by you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manglona also received the science, Chamorro Carolinian Language Heritage Studies, and agriculture subject awards, while Cevon Atalig Calvo was honored with the Principal\u2019s Leadership award as well as the best student in English language arts and social studies.<\/p>\n<p>Xeayda Jahzara Hocog Manglona (math and physical education), Zolekha Liz Sayal Dewan (computer), Alfernee Zett Cruz Manglona (Leadership Corpus), Immaculate Marie Mesngon Maratita (agriculture), Daicia Manglona Charfauros (performing arts), Kirido Barcinas Manglona (honorable mention for English language arts), Jeston Manglona Cabrera (honorable mention for English language arts and math), and Logan Zade Barcinas Taitano (Perseverance Award 16th Rota Municipal Council) were the other students honorees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabina Leann Barcinas Taisacan led 36 of her classmates who will be moving up to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":277566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[21466,21467,21468,21469],"class_list":["post-277565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life","tag-cevon-atalig-calvo","tag-daicia-manglona-charfauros","tag-jeston-manglona-cabrera","tag-kirido-barcinas-manglona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}