GO BLUE

Go Blue!!

this was also taken spring break high school freshman year.  at the beach!  i like sand.  i like sandy.  i like sandy beaches.  i am an artist.

 GO

BLUE

under that michigan hat, little does anyone know.  i have a head full of dark wavy curly hair.  about 2 weeks after this spring break trip, when Michigan lost the NCAA Basketball tournament, i also lost a bet.

and that's when I began to shave my head.

go blue

why is 6 afraid of 7?

so this is me the summer before my 8th grade.  it is in zambia solwezi.  this might have been taken when i was in the infirmary.  i was feeling very weak and i can remember, like it was yesterday, i had no energy and i was cold, in Africa, i was cold, etc.  they said my white blood cells count was next to nil.  it also has something to do with me being slightly anemic.  

below, another picture of me summer before 8th grade, now were in france and while the team was going up a french building i was ordered to watch everyone's luggage.  i believe i did a fantastic job.

jump ahead a year and a half, it is spring break.  i am a freshman at shawnee mission west and my affinity for michigan really jumped.  due to alot of friends getting me michigan apparel for the last christmas.  they're awesome.  

go blue!

i believe my sister, Leilani, took these pictures with my other sister, Candace, begging to be in them, "please big brother, please"!  she wasn't wearing Michigan.  "sorry sis".

silimba

so these next couple of months, i am going through old pictures, maybe to help rediscover who i am.  yes this could be about "identity" which i feel i've lost ever since waking up 15 years ago.  this could be about "value" which i'm told i have but i also feel was lost.  well, i think i've looked at others' value and maybe to the point where i ignore mine.  i am not going to live by the tapes that make fun of me for posting pictures of who God created, "me".  i'm not gonna stop saying i'm beautiful or wonderful because the church tells me to stop because it is vanity.  i am alive and valuable and purposeful and no body can take that truth away from me cause it comes from God.  and this isn't being possessive it is being confident in how God made me.  when i see hospital pictures of me, i see ugly.  i am ashamed.  but that is not how God made me.

so, ok, going back in time, a bit, and crossing the ocean.  this one is from Africa.  i must have been in 7th grade just before kansas city christian school told me i am not allowed back to school for my 8th grade year.  funny.