My name is Katheryn Tucker, but most people just call me Kate (not Katie, just Kate). While I cannot really boast of the most exciting life I do feel as though I have seen a lot over the past 21 years. My father was in the military for 20 years, and because of this, I have moved around quite a bit. I was born in Charleston, SC then moved to Monteray, CA when I was 5. By the time I was 6, my family and I had again relocated to Seattle, WA. Three years later I was living in Virginia Beach, VA and then three years after that in Fairfax Station,VA (close to Washington, DC). My dad retired from the navy when I was 15 and soon after we moved to Wilkesboro, NC which is a small town on the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. A few years later the family decided to pack up yet again and move to Mooresville, NC but that was short lived. We didn't even stay there for a year before we moved back to wilkes county. My parents are currently living in Ferguson, NC which is close to Wilkesboro and are now talking about moving to the beach. They just cant stay in one place!
Right now I am at an odd point in my life where I have two homes. One being my doorm room at UNC Chapel Hill (where I am a senior), the other is my parents house back in Ferguson. The place is way the heck in the boonies, in fact the "town" doesn't even have one stop light! But it is so beautiful out there, and it gave my family the chance to own horses. Something that makes my sister and dad ecstatic. I will put up some pics of them and their horses on my family page.
The various places that I have lived and am currently living all helped to shape how I see the world and the kind of person that I am. It is pretty difficult to try to think of a way to truly convey who I am, not only because I grow and change daily, but because trying to place a definition on a person can take away from the big picture.
I was going through a bunch of old documents that I wrote my senior year in high school and I realized they are quite in tune to who I really am. Maybe it's because I learned more about myself in that one year then I had figured out in the 16 previous ones. Maybe it was due to the inspiration given to me by my AP English teacher, Mrs. Nichols, who helped me find myself through writing. Either way the following are two works that I am both proud of, and I feel shed some insight into my life and experiences.
As a Child