Thank you.
This is the thank you letter I am sending out with my graduation thank yous and picture. It's a little less angsty then originally, which is probably good.
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Dear family and friends;
Thank you very much for the gifts and heartfelt wishes regarding my graduation from Colony High School on June 3rd. High school was a long and tedious road, but I've managed to get through. It required many late nights up reading history homework, that when I woke in the morning or the next day in class, I either looked at my notes and thought "what does that say?!" or could not truly even remember reading. But don't worry, I survived. I graduated with a 4.0 weighted GPA, and 6th in my class of 240 something.
It's funny, but in high school a lot of the time people don't define things by what classes they took and what grades they made, but rather by the people with whom they spent their class period, or passing time, or who was their locker buddy, or who they ate with every day in the hall at lunch, or who they always had random conversations with after hours. When I look back and think about Law Related first period first semester of freshman year, I don't remember learning about the Bill of Rights or landmark Supreme Court cases like Brown vs. Board or the Watergate. I remember the quiet kid who sat in the corner and didn't talk to anyone, and the loud girls who sat on my left and in my midst distracting from the work, and how when I got my first pair of contacts, they must have had a rip in them and I spent the first three weeks wearing them constantly rubbing my eyes.
Now that I'm 18 and finished with high school, I'm not entirely sure where life is taking me or what God's will in my life is. I'm off to college at Mat-Su in the fall, which will be a time and money saver for now. I will be living with my parents, but when the Spring Semester hits I'd like to be in an apartment with a friend or possibly at the dorms in the UAA campus. I recieved the UA Scholars tuition from the University of Alaska, which offers me $11,000 at any UA campus of my choice. The scholarship is cash redeemable, so I can use it not only for tuition, but also books and living costs if I choose to stay in dorms. I am interested in studying the languages I already know (English, Spanish and American Sign Language) and am considering careers in teaching, counseling, and world traveling (you'd think I could find some career relating to that). Someday I'd like to publish a book.
In the course of the next year I hope to travel to Australia, Montana and Oklahoma, to visit friends. I'd also like to live in a foreign country during college, popular choices including Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Perhaps however, a small obscure Spanish speaking country would suffice as well. I've wanted to visit Australia since the third grade, and to live in another country since the sixth or seventh. It seems that while some dreams change, not all do. :)
Before school starts again in the fall I hope to attend Little Beaver Camp my last year as a camper. I'm also trying to get a job, anywhere and everywhere. My current aspirations are at banks. Forgive me for the photo, I was rushed to put my cap on and in the excitement of the moment, no one noticed the upturn on the right side of my head. All of my pictures managed to catch the mishap, but we prefer the happy mood and smile anyway.
Thank you for again for your love, support, thoughts and prayers,
Thank you so much for everything;
<< my signature here >>
Kristina Huling
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This is of course, subject to a bit of editing, by me and my mother both.
I shall post the picture we are sending out later, when I get it on my comp.
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Dear family and friends;
Thank you very much for the gifts and heartfelt wishes regarding my graduation from Colony High School on June 3rd. High school was a long and tedious road, but I've managed to get through. It required many late nights up reading history homework, that when I woke in the morning or the next day in class, I either looked at my notes and thought "what does that say?!" or could not truly even remember reading. But don't worry, I survived. I graduated with a 4.0 weighted GPA, and 6th in my class of 240 something.
It's funny, but in high school a lot of the time people don't define things by what classes they took and what grades they made, but rather by the people with whom they spent their class period, or passing time, or who was their locker buddy, or who they ate with every day in the hall at lunch, or who they always had random conversations with after hours. When I look back and think about Law Related first period first semester of freshman year, I don't remember learning about the Bill of Rights or landmark Supreme Court cases like Brown vs. Board or the Watergate. I remember the quiet kid who sat in the corner and didn't talk to anyone, and the loud girls who sat on my left and in my midst distracting from the work, and how when I got my first pair of contacts, they must have had a rip in them and I spent the first three weeks wearing them constantly rubbing my eyes.
Now that I'm 18 and finished with high school, I'm not entirely sure where life is taking me or what God's will in my life is. I'm off to college at Mat-Su in the fall, which will be a time and money saver for now. I will be living with my parents, but when the Spring Semester hits I'd like to be in an apartment with a friend or possibly at the dorms in the UAA campus. I recieved the UA Scholars tuition from the University of Alaska, which offers me $11,000 at any UA campus of my choice. The scholarship is cash redeemable, so I can use it not only for tuition, but also books and living costs if I choose to stay in dorms. I am interested in studying the languages I already know (English, Spanish and American Sign Language) and am considering careers in teaching, counseling, and world traveling (you'd think I could find some career relating to that). Someday I'd like to publish a book.
In the course of the next year I hope to travel to Australia, Montana and Oklahoma, to visit friends. I'd also like to live in a foreign country during college, popular choices including Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Perhaps however, a small obscure Spanish speaking country would suffice as well. I've wanted to visit Australia since the third grade, and to live in another country since the sixth or seventh. It seems that while some dreams change, not all do. :)
Before school starts again in the fall I hope to attend Little Beaver Camp my last year as a camper. I'm also trying to get a job, anywhere and everywhere. My current aspirations are at banks. Forgive me for the photo, I was rushed to put my cap on and in the excitement of the moment, no one noticed the upturn on the right side of my head. All of my pictures managed to catch the mishap, but we prefer the happy mood and smile anyway.
Thank you for again for your love, support, thoughts and prayers,
Thank you so much for everything;
<< my signature here >>
Kristina Huling
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This is of course, subject to a bit of editing, by me and my mother both.
I shall post the picture we are sending out later, when I get it on my comp.