This is Me

Taken on my front lawn about 3 months ago

Photo by: Kyrstin Stratton

I'm a simple girl in a large world. When it's not desert season you can find me working hard on my photography, fighting for a cure for breast cancer, and paving my way into my future to become a Navy nurse. I work hard for what I want, and don't let anything get in my way. I am headstrong and straight forward. I believe it's better to know the hurtful truth than a painless lie. I'm a senior in Orange Glen High School. I grew up in Escondido, CA. My mom's from Georgia and my dad is from right here in town. I have a typical red neck family with "farmer tans" and blue jeans. Big trucks and country music is what I was raised on because of my mom. But my dad on the other hand is a total rock star at heart, but a forest fire fighter in life. So AC/DC lyrics are in my blood. I listen to almost every kind of music out there. My favorite band is Black Veil Brides. It's definitely my dad's blood showing there. Pepsi, and the LA Dodgers are my addiction. I live for being in the desert. The heat and the thrill of riding on the dunes is amazing. My wish for when I die is to be cremated and my ashes to be thrown out into the air on top of blow sand out in Ocotillo Wells. Until I die I will fight for a cure for the cancer that my grandmother died of, breast cancer. My mom was in collage to become a veterinarian and my grandma told her to switch her studies so that my mom could take care of her. My mom fell in love with it and furthered her studies. I remember crawling into my mom's lap while she was studying and telling her it was time for bed. "About an hour later" my mom told me, "I'd realize you where fast asleep in my lap." I'd watch my mom take care of her patients and I knew I wanted to just what she was doing. Following my mom's footsteps and become an RN. It wasn't until about the 6th grade that I realized that the Navy was where I needed to go to get my education. My goal is to travel the world and help people that are sick or injured. Photography is a passion/hobby it probably won't go any further than my own files, but I still enjoy it.