Well heres a pic of me in
football obviously. My junior Year. I'm huge. I love it. I
love looking tough and cool.
Junior Prom with Nina Davis.
I can remember the day that i actually called Nina to go to prom. I think
I paced the upstairs hallway for about 30 minutes before actually getting up
the courage to ask the girl to the Prom. I really didn't care to date
her. I just thought it would be cool to go to prom with someone other
than MYSELF. We had been friends back in Grade School. then she
left for some reason. Then one day she came back to West Side. Never
really talked to each other, but hit it off when i called her on the phone.
So i ask her to prom on the phone and shes like Sure Great, but i have a boyfriend
thats in college and goes to Purdue. Okay... why in the world are you
going out with a punk like myself and not your boyfriend. Sympathy or
what. So anyways we had plans to go eat somewhere with another couple
(will remain anonymous to protect the guilty) backed out on the reservations
at the last minute. Go figure. So we went to this place alone.
Now prom was cool and all that jazz, but then afterprom happened and we just
sort of split up. And she went with her friends to the Dunes to have fun.
No thought of inviting me. Gee thanks. all well just the first of
many let downs.
Here's a picture of me at
the sectional's meet my senior year. Look at those arms. Man i'm
huge. I Can remember the match so vivedly. The kid was a freshman
that was supposed to be in the 215 class for JV, but there heavyweight was so
terrible that they bumped him up to varsity. The guy was very strong.
I faced the guy the Thursday before that match and it came down to me having
to pin him for the team to win. Unfortunately I schooled him. I
only one by points. It was saddening. But i got my revenge during
this match. I remember getting off balance at one time or another, so
i kept going backwards hoping to bring him with me and flip hiim over with my
leg. Which i did. But i ended up kicking him in the balls.
He had to take a couple minutes to regain his composure. After that i
pinned him in No time. BOOYA!
This
was Spring Formal. I thought it was fun but Lindsay (the person standing infront
of me) didn't seem to think it was fun after we left Walmart. This whole
dance was doomed from the beginning. I was in the school musical at this
time and we were singing a lot to get prepared for the upcoming perfomance the
next week. At least thats what I claim what happened to my voice that
evening. Two days before the dance my voice started giving out.
By the time saturday morning happened i couldn't say a sentence without cracking.
Talk about perfect time for puberty to take place. Even the waitress made
fun of me when i tried ordering my food.. Which i couldn't even say what I wanted
becuase i kept cracking my voice. So on the way home Eileen's (the other
girl just tagging along with Greg the other guy) strap broke in the back of
my pimp mobile. So we had to make a quick run home to Eileen's house so
her mom could so the strap back on. So with that all done we were still
going to end up being early to the dance which is a big NO NO. So off
to Wal-Mart we went. Greg and I went to the toys.. and the girls for some
odd reason went to fabrics. We figured they were just ignoring us.
Perfect time to have a plan. I told greg to buy silly string so we can
spray out dates in the car when the get strapped in to go to the dance.
So he hands me the silly string and we shake it up before we get into the car.
Both of us are in the front seat (girls are weird) and we spray them.
No luckily Eileen was behind me. She thought it was hilarious. Unfortunately
Lindsay on the other hand didn't. All well. Note to Janice.
if you look in the back seat you may still see some Hot Green marks on the seat.
Oops. I still thought it was hilarious. So we get to the dance..
and Greg with his vest becomes pimp magnet.
Senior Prom. Lets
count them all.
Top Row: Jon Weber, Micah Davis, Craig Smolen, Josh Milligan,
Nick Cattin, Adam Lorenz, Ryan Umbeck
Bottom Row: K-Man, Mie Oiharra Marisa Indelicatto, Shoko _____,
Katie Griffin, Theresal Pradilla, Lindsey Keazer, Mindy Thacker, Laurie Saviano,
Jessica Zweir, Eric Hong.
Thats right 18 people in one group. Thats quite the change from last years
prom where it was just ME. Let me tell you reservations for 18 people
aren't fun. Especially when you have to break up the groups since there isn't
a table big enough to seat 18 people.
This would be the pick of
the men alone.
Well this picture
abviously happened at prom. But its strange if you look at the clock
its 3 o clock and then goes straight to 9 o clock. Weird way of telling
time. Somebody from Harrison must have made it or something. Anyways.
I can remember the day it was official that we were going to go out to the
prom. We had been passing each other in the hallways on our way to class
and for some odd reason i kept calling her Shoko. But anyways.
It was one week after the Spring formal (which if you read the commentary
above would have realized it was the Weekend of the Musical (Children of Eden).
The Day before opening night my Gma Decided to leave this planet. So
during the whole musical I am showing no emotions (but do i ever have any
emotions?) becuase my gma died the day before. Which i thank the many
people that gave me cards during that time. Anyways, after the whole
thing i'm just sort of bummed that my gma died.. and Olaf Larson asks me if
i'm going to prom. And i'm like. umm not at the moment.
Then hes like oh okay. Then he leaves. So i figure hes obviously
running an errand for some lady out in the hallway. So i come out with
my costume and makeup on. And there is Mie ready to pop the question.
Hey Kevin do you want to go to prom. Obviously i said yes without hesitation.
Partly becuase i didn't want to have to pace for another thirt minutes on
my second floor hallway of my house, desperation of not actually finding someone
to go with, but more importantly she was a cool girl to get to know and hang
out with. One of the bravest girls i know. She was a foreign exchange
student from Japan.
I found some pictures while cleaning up my room. These were taken at
Mie's host families house. I don't even remember her giving these to me.
go figure.
Graduation was upon us.
The four Amigos Josh Milligan, Eric Jonas, Ryan Umbeck, and K-man
Dude i look like a blimp.
I can remember Mr. Iikubo making fun of how huge i was in it. This would
be my good buddy Eric. Its one of many pictures with just the two of us.
We grew up knowing each other. So in essense he was the brother i never
had.
This would be a picture of me
and Amy Maxwell at Window Rock in Arizona during one of the mission trips. The
place is absolutely beautiful. I wish i could go back and just live there
for a couple of months and be inspired by the beauty and write music.
This would be the white water
rafting group. I really didn't want the old guy (tour guide) to be in
the picture. But i guess its nice to beable to go back and know what he
looked like. There is Jessica Zweir, Stacy ____ , Nick Cattin, K-man,
Amy Maxwell, and Tour Guide man. We were missing some other girl but I
forget her name... its been a while. So basically if there was any paddeling
to be done, it was done by me and Nick. The brut force. The girls
were obviously too petite to actually do any real harm. But don't
let them know i said that. One thing that was really cool about the rafting
was that at the end there was this long stretch of calm safe water that you
could just float and go down stream fairly quickly. Well Stacy and the
other girls decided to stay in the raft at that time. So the Tour Guide
man yelled that we needed to get back into the raft. Well, it was really
hard to have the ability to stop. You basically had to Swim in the direction
of the boat while still going the majority backwards in hope that the boat would
come closer. That was happening for Jessica. So i had to Grab her
and try to dig my foot into the ground to hold the both of us stationary.
In hopes the boat would come right for us. Thankfully it did. By
the time they got to us, i only had my big toe in the sand below trying to hold
us. I don't think i could have regained control after that with the both
of our weights.. mainly mine since i'm such a whale. Now to get on the
raft you had to basically lift your self over something that is a foot taller
than your head. Jessica had no problem.. but they had the whole crew trying
to pull me in by my legs swuimsuits arms and head. It was a great experience.
Well that wraps up my High school life. There might be more pictures later... but who will really ever know.