reunion.

This is one of my most favourite times of the year - the anticipation of back to school, but still having the freedom of summer to bask in daily. As much as I'm excited for classes to start and get back into the normal routine, I know I'll yearn for these warm days in a about a month. But that's the way the ball bounces I guess.

I've written about this before, so I won't have another rant. Perhaps I am too positive and always see things in the better light. I suppose since getting hurt, everything is just a bonus to walk, dance, swim, run. Everything. It takes too much energy to hate things. One of these things I'm finding people detest is high school. I'm coming from a different perspective of having attended three different high schools (one was only for two weeks, if you want to throw that out, no worries) but I hate it when people bad mouth where they really grew up. Our friends, work, drama and lives began and developed in high school as much as at home.

The first time I stepped into Kelowna Secondary School, I thought I was in the worst place on the wrong side of town. It was all indoors, very strange from my outdoor, California campus (no snow makes a difference) and I was the new kid. I would be lying if I said that it wasn't hard. It sucked my first year and I was so angry at the world for making me move to the frozen tundra of Canada.

However, dance saved me again.

I joined the dance team and had the opportunity to perform for my school, tour to Vancouver and meet an amazing group of people. The turning point was when I got to dance in the year end show in 2007. I put myself out there with my modern solo, and I thought things were going to go so badly, as most Kelownaites had never seen this type of dance without the "interpretive dance" joke.

KSS became one of the places that I have had so much opportunity to grow and learn. Classes, after-school activities, clubs, grad events...it's a magical place where I met my best friends that I love today. The teachers connected with their students, we had an older demographic (only grades 10-12) so could have a more sophisticated events calender.

During my dance class today, I discovered one the parents was actually a teacher at my old high school - she said that there was just something special about KSS, where the teachers loved coming to work.

I'm hoping to plan our grad class's 10 year reunion. I hope to see you there if we graduated together.

I'll hand the rest over to the beach boys: