The Story of My Life

I'm in my final semester of high school and ready to explore. Mostly I am an over achiever, always taking the hardest classes, filling my plate up to the top with activities and clubs. The last four years have been hard, I have pushed myself to prove to everyone that I can do anything. I took all honors classes, joined endless amounts of clubs, played three sports a year and in the summer I worked sixty-seventy hour weeks. I lost myself in the endless amount of doing. So when I started applying to colleges and they asked me “What are your passions?” I froze. I thought for hours, what did I love? I had to look back to when I was a child. I realized I loved to capture culture through my lens. It stated when I was eight. My family and I traveled to Seattle Washington for a wedding. I bought six disposable cameras and used them all in the first several days. I would spend hours bending down to get the perfect angle to capture the bug or the wind blown trees. Ever since then I always had a camera, snapping photos here and there. In the seventh grade I traveled to Mexico. Capturing the street venders and the Mayan ruins were fascinating. I wanted to learn about the natives and the history behind the ruins. While last year I was privileged to travel to Ecuador, there I was allowed to take photos of a native Achuar settlement, a culture mostly untouched by the outside world. All these experience made me realize I would love to travel and be able to capture a life that is unknown to me. To answer the colleges questions what lights my fire? Discovering culture and the diversity all around our world through my lens. So about me, I’m an overachiever trying to capture the simplicity of the world around me.