Kaitie is my final rep from Newport High School. She is so fun- like a mix of a serious adult and typical teenager combined into one! We did her session at Luther Burbank Park. She and her family spent much of her childhood at this park, it was fun hearing all the memories as we walked along.
If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go? Why?
I would return to a place I've already been. For three or four years, my family used to go to a place in Canada called Chatterbox Falls in Princess Louisa Inlet. The name to me is magic. I see it so vividly as it appears at sun set- the high walls of the two cliffs on either side show the line of the sun as it disappears. The stubborn green trees clinging to the vertical sides turn gold in the sun, while those in shadows deepen. The falls at the end of the narrow slit keep falling, and though the sun doesn't touch them, the pools collecting at the bottom are so blue with the fresh water, turning dark green and black as they run into the salt water of the sound. But that wall of pure water- it shows me the strength of the unseen; though not a person watches, the waterfall has this strength, this continuity, this sense of sureness in what it is. It is forever. When my family first floated into the inlet at , I knew it would be an image I would carry with me for the rest of my life. I would love to return.
What book are you currently reading? How is it?
I actually just finished a book. It's called AP Language and Composition Review. It is horrible. Luckily I finished reading it last night and took the test today. I'm looking forward to my next book, a sci-fi fantasy one. One of my favorite genre, Fire will Fall is about bioterrorism and how it effects lives all over the world. I don't know how it will turn out, but I'm hoping it won't be a knock off of other bioterrorist books.
What are your plans after high school?
I want to go to college after high school. I'm hoping to attend an out of state school with a scholarship and then graduate with a high ranking in Biochemistry. I want to then go to a good graduate school and get a degree in Toxicoligy or Genetics. I love chemical experiments and science and while it may not be my strength, it is definitely my interest. After undergrad, I'd like to return to Washington to live near my family.
If you won the lotto, what would be the first thing you do?
I would buy a car. No seriously, totally typical teenager thing, but it sucks to have my friends all drive me around to every place I go. After that, I would put everything in savings for college. College is expensive and I am one child of five- paying my way through, even with a scholarship would make me feel better about the strain I sometimes put on my parents.
What do you hope you’ll remember most about your senior year?
I really want to remember two things- one is my friends and the last year we as a group would be so close. The other is the last year with my little brother. For the longest time, he was my best friend. And now, he's so old and yet so immature! Fifteen months my junior, he's two grades younger but he's always been there with me. Through the divorce, remarriage, and tyrant step-siblings that have become friends, I want to remember this as the last year when my brother and I will really live together and be as close as we have been.
