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Sunday, March 3, 2013
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Denton Record-Chronicle
All aboard
Student’s daily train trip covers 30 miles
Denton Record-Chronicle file photo/David Minton
A Dallas Area Rapid Transit Green Line train sits across the platform from a Denton County
Transit Authority A-train at Carrollton’s Trinity Mills Station in 2011. Denton High School
senior Anais Alarcon rides the train to school and back home to Farmers Branch each day.
Her commute requires her to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to get to school around 8:15.
By Floribel Nunez
For the Denton Record-Chronicle
Senior Anais Alarcon wakes
up earlier than most of her
classmates. She lives in
Farmers Branch and rides the
train to get to school.
“I wake up at 5:30, and it’s
miserable,” Anais said. “I do it
for my team.”
She does this so she can con-
tinue being a dance officer for
the Denton High School dance
team, the Fillies. Anais’ parents
moved to Farmers Branch
halfway through her junior
year. Now, Anais rides the train
to school and back home to
Farmers Branch each day.
“My parents work in
Carrollton, so riding the train
was the only transportation I
could get,” Anais said. “I didn’t
want to transfer because I did-
n’t want to lose my friends that
I already had here at DHS and
I didn’t want to lose my posi-
tion as a dance officer for [the]
Fillies. It is all worth it. I love
my team, so it’s OK.”
It takes Anais about two-
and-a-half hours to get to
school.
“The process I take to get to
school is long,” Anais said. “I
ride the DART from Carroll-
ton, then get off at the next stop
and get on [the A-train]. Then
I take a bus and get dropped off
near the school; then I walk to
school. I arrive around 8:15.”
When Anais first started rid-
ing the train to school, her par-
ents were worried something
bad might happen to her on her
way.
“I get very terrified when my
daughter gets on the train,”
Yasmin Alarcon, Anais’ mom
said. “There are strangers, and
you just can’t trust people
nowadays, with all the inci-
dents going on.”
But Yasmin Alarcon said
Anais is strong and responsible
and deserved to stay at Denton
High.
“It’s her last year, and she has
accomplished so much,” she
said. “I didn’t want to take away
her opportunities as a senior
lieutenant.”
Anais said she feels inde-
pendent, so she wasn’t scared
the first time she rode the
DART (Dallas Area Rapid
Transit) train, but she did feel
awkward.
“I was raised not to depend
on other people,” Anais said.
When Anais is riding the
train, she usually does home-
work or sleeps.
“The only time I’ve been
scared was when a man that
looked like a hobo was trying to
speak to me and tried moving
closer,” Anais said.
If Anais has morning prac-
tice, she stays over with one of
her friends. Otherwise, she has
an early morning, pre-depar-
ture routine.
“I have a checklist inside my
brain, and I go through it,”
Anais said. “But sometimes I
do forget to bring my makeup,
but I always have an alternate
choice, so I use others.”
One week, Anais went from
Monday morning to Thursday
night without seeing her par-
ents. She sees the experience as
a lesson of overcoming any-
thing if a goal is set.
“You have to try your hardest
to not let a barrier stop you,”
Anais said. “Anything is possi-
ble.”
FLORIBEL NUNEZ is a
sophomore at Denton High
School and a participant in the
Record-Chronicle’s “Speak Out
Loud” writing program for
student journalists.
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