THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, September 9, 1994              TAG: 9409090843
SECTION: DAILY BREAK              PAGE: E1   EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Teenspeak 
                                             LENGTH: Medium:   53 lines

TEENSPEAK: IF YOU COULD WAKE UP TOMORROW HAVING GAINED ONE NEW QUALITY OR ABILITY, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

This week Teenspeak traveled to Pembroke Mall in Virginia Beach and asked the question: If you could wake up tomorrow having gained one new quality or ability, what would it be?

Next week: Cape Henry Collegiate

``I guess the quality that I could do my schoolwork better; that I could achieve more and get better grades.'' - Daniel J. Whitmore, 16, a sophomore at Norview High in Norfolk

``I guess swim better, because I'm a swimmer. I could get better times.'' - T. Bradley Gower, 14, a freshman at Maury High in Norfolk

``If I could, like, go back in time, say I did something wrong, I could go back and change it so I wouldn't get in trouble.'' - Charlie Gower, 15, a junior at Booker T. Washington High in Norfolk

``I guess the ability to find a decent job and be on my own and to have my own place and be superwoman.'' - Mary Donahue, 17, a senior at First Colonial High in Virginia Beach

``Not to have to go to school; to be free to do whatever I want; not to live by so many rules.'' - Heather Page, 17, a senior at First Colonial High in Virginia Beach

``I wanna fly.'' - Conan Javier, 17, a senior at Salem High in Virginia Beach

Your Turn

If you could wake up tomorrow having gained one new quality or ability, what would it be?

To speak out, call INFOLINE at 640-5555 and enter category 7553. Selected comments will appear in next Friday's Daily Break.

You must have a Touch Tone phone. Calls are toll-free except west of Suffolk, on the Eastern Shore, the Peninsula and in North Carolina. Comments will be taken through noon Monday. ILLUSTRATION: Color photos by L. Todd Spencr

[Color photos of students]

by CNB