Model Headshots @Kate's
The French Hallway - our '07-'08 Hangout/Haunt.
DramaFest. Those STUdents and UNBFers sure are funny.
Band Trip '08 ---> The time of our lives.
English Academics Award.
Europe Trip: Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Europe Trip:Katie and I, Trevi Fountain, Florence.
Europe Trip:Piaza San Marco, Venizia.
Europe Trip:Some mall in TO where the hockey hall of fame is.
Europe Trip:The Coliseum, Roma.
Europe Trip:A church in Tuscany. No joke.
Europe Trip:Firenze.
Europe Trip:Firenze: K,K,B,S plus Keely.
Europe Trip:Leaning Tower, Piza.
Europe Trip:Hotel outside Venizia.
Europe Trip:Verona, Romeo and Juliet's Balcony.
Europe Trip:Rigi Kulm, Switzerland.
Europe Trip:TO Airport.
Europe Trip:TO.
Europe Trip: Verona
N.B. Winterscape through a camera lens.
NBIAA Track and Field Provincials: Triple Jump. KVHS.
Rose, babysitting Carlin.
My mural, my lifelong dream as far as KVHS is concerned.
Graduation '08: Last night with Corkum.
Dance Show '08: What Dreams Are Made Of, The Studio.
My New Camera. THANKS DAD!
Murder Mystery Party: A and B plus Tom.
Murder Mystery Party: Kara, the Murderer.
Splatter Party finally realized: Jessi's.
YEBO Picture Taking Frenzy.
English Class '07.
Again I say I'm going to try to keep this up this time. I really will try. I was just looking at my piczo website and thinking about how much I miss doing that stuff. It's also crazy how much things have changed. The last time I posted on that website, I was going into grade ten. I am now in grade twelve.
I'll show you some of the things. One of the things that really surprises me is how immature my writing sounds. I wrote about each one of my friends, and my boyfriend, and I sound so pathetic and little. I want to redo it, but I think I would have to start a whole new website to do that, because this one is so close to my heart that I can't bear to lose even a single tiny bit of it.
For Example:
Ten To One(THEN)
Ten Random Things About Me:
1. I love photography.
2. I am an activist.
3. I love to be busy.
4. I can't live life without music.
5. I am a paradox.
6. I love fruit.
7. I have a terribly bad back and knees.
8. I go to Calgary three times a year.
9. I have two nephews.
10. I don't like milk.
*These are all the same but one, and more will change soon, I am feeling.*
Nine ways to win my heart:
1. Have a good sense of humour.
2. Let me know you care about me.
3. Respect me.
4. Be there for me.
5. Talk to me.
6. Be able to have fun just doing nothing.
7. Just sit and chill with me.
8. Be a romantic. I know, gushy, but it gets me.
9. Don't hurt my friends.
*It's so strange to me that some of these things have fallen by the wayside in retrospect, but I am still happy, and I still leave them the same in my updated list.*
Eight things I want to do before I die:
1. Go to University.
2. Have a child.
3. Go to Africa.
4. Publish my book.
5. Watch a sunrise more than once.
6. Run a marathon.
7. Write music.
8. Live closer to my Dad.
*All of these are the same, and none of them have been achieved yet, since two years ago.*
Seven Ways to Annoy Me:
1. Not giving me space when I need it.
2. Talking constantly when I need silence.
3. Lie to me.
4. Hurt my friends.
5. Blow my trust.
6. Blow off something I think is big.
7. Ignore me.
*These will be the same forever.*
Six Things I really want to get:
1. An alto sax all my own.
2. A clarinet.
3. Enough money for Driver's Ed.
4. Enough money for Europe.
5. A Bare Naked Ladies ticket.
6. An ipod with more space.
*All of these have been achieved, which is interesting.*
Five things I'm afraid of:
1. Fear.
2. Failing.
3. Being attacked.
4. Losing my memory.
5. Being in a plane crash.
*These will be the same forever also.*
Four Favourite Items in my room:
1. My books.
2. My music.
3. My bed (wow that counts for a lot)
4. My window.
*Only number one has changed, to be more all encompassing.*
Three things I do everyday:
1. Brush my teeth.
2. MSN.
3. Listen to music.
*Number two is so wrong.*
Two things I want to do right now:
1. Have people over.
2. Play piano.
*This is silly anyway, it basically changes on the hour.*
One confession you must make:
1. You hate drugs.
*Always.*
Ten To One (NOW)
Ten Random Things About Me:
1. I love photography.
2. I am an activist.
3. I love to be busy.
4. I can't live life without music.
5. I am a paradox.
6. I love fruit.
7. I have a terribly bad back and knees.
8. I go to Calgary three times a year.
9. I have two nephews who probably don't know who I am anymore.
10. I don't like milk.
Nine ways to win my heart:
1. Have a good sense of humour.
2. Let me know you care about me.
3. Respect me.
4. Be there for me.
5. Talk to me.
6. Be able to have fun just doing nothing.
7. Just sit and chill with me.
8. Be a romantic. I know, gushy, but it gets me.
9. Don't hurt my friends.
Eight things I want to do before I die:
1. Go to University.
2. Have a child.
3. Go to Africa.
4. Publish my book.
5. Watch a sunrise more than once.
6. Run a marathon.
7. Write music.
8. Live closer to my Dad.
Seven Ways to Annoy Me:
1. Not giving me space when I need it.
2. Talking constantly when I need silence.
3. Lie to me.
4. Hurt my friends.
5. Blow my trust.
6. Blow off something I think is big.
7. Ignore me.
Six Things I really want to get:
1. Into a Fine Arts program at university.
2. A super-original, artsy, 'it SCREAMS Becca' prom dress.
3. A full colour yearbook.
4. Extra Time in my day.
5. A good night's sleep.
6. A tripod.
Five things I'm afraid of:
1. Fear.
2. Failing.
3. Being attacked.
4. Losing my memory.
5. Being in a plane crash.
Four Favourite Items in my room:
1. Everything on my shelves. (this is basically everything that is most important to me in a nutshell. Every romantic thing Andrew has ever given me, all my photo albums and scrapbook albums, books, and my artwork.)
2. My music.
3. My bed (wow that counts for a lot)
4. My window.
Three things I do everyday:
1. Brush my teeth.
2. Read.
3. Listen to music.
Two things I want to do right now:
1. Find out what is going on with Kate and Sherry.
2. Read.
One confession you must make:
1. You hate drugs.
I'd also like to do a little update whereas I haven't been on here since January. I am still dating the same guy, and am very happy about it. It's been over two years. We celebrated our anniversary on June 16th and he sent me on a scavenger hunt that I will never forget. I went to Europe this March Break and had the time of my life with 80 other students from my school. I want to go back so bad. I got into the Spring Musical, Children of Eden, all my myself, and even got a line. I was Seth's wife. I won two awards at KV's first academic awards ceremony: One for Excellence in English and one for Excellence in Visual Art. I made it to track and field provincials for triple jump, and came in fifth. I got a job through the youth apprenticeship program and became a teller at Bayview Credit Union. I came out of grade 11 with a 98% average, top in the grade. I also realized my lifelong artistic goal for KVHS: I painted a mural. It is due to be put up in THE LOWER LOBBY within the next couple of weeks. I also got Dad's old Nikon D50 Digital SLR with a long essay and some graciousness on his part. I am now researching universities and really like the look of Bishop's, Mount Allison and Western. I want to go into fine arts so badly. I am currently in the process of applying for a portfolio development scholarship program at the Saint John Arts Centre which will almost guarantee me a spot at whichever university I so choose. I am co-editor of this year's 2008-2009 Kennebecasis Valley High Yearbook and my fellow co-editor, Kate, our business manager, Katie and I are fighting our asses off for the first full-colour book in KVHS history. I am running for the KV cross country team and I am SO happy that our race was cancelled for tomorrow because we are looking to get two tropical storms at the same time. I know that runners go out in anything, but that doesn't mean that I particularly want to. I am as busy as heck and I am loving it. My goal for tomorrow is to have enough time after completing the essentials to write on here and to actually do it.
For now I will leave you with a poem. It was written by an amazing black woman. And I don't say that she's black to be discriminatory. It's because it goes with the context of her incredible poetry.
Still I Rise
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Maya Angelou
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