Katie+R.

=Katie Reinlib=

__Animoto:__ [|My Highschool Life]

__Script:__

Everyone tells you that your high school years will go by fast, and you don't believe them until they are over. These four years were some of the fastest and best years of my life.

My freshman year I was pretty weird and overall an awkward person in general. I came into high school with some good friends from eighth grade, and although I had wanted to break out of my shell, I was still really shy. I played my last seasons of soccer in a rec league my freshman year, and picked up playing the piano again. I made one or two more friends but I ended up staying friends with about the same bunch of people, partially because I was a nervous kid and partially because I wasn't involved in clubs or sports or anything else in school.

Sophomore year was a lot of the same kind of thing. I made some new friends but was still pretty shy. This was the year that I got really involved in art and drawing. The summer after my sophomore year was my sweet sixteen, and so with the money I got from that I bought a good camera and got interested in photography.

My junior year was the year that everything happened at once. I was slightly overwhelmed with AP classes and at the same time started up marching band playing mallets, which was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Marching band helped me completely break out of my shell and I made a ridiculous amount of friends. After marching band ended I was on winter drumline, so my junior year was a big year for music. I went to my first prom that year with a big group of friends and had a lot of fun.

My senior year was more about getting better at what I had been doing than it was about doing new things. I had worked really hard in marching band the previous year and I earned the position of section leader. The winter drumline this year went to Ohio to compete in the world championships. I started getting advice from a really good photographer that my dad is friends with, and started thinking about going into it in college. However, I changed at the last moment and decided to go with theater design and lighting instead. It's weird to think about how much I have changed over these four years. I'm really excited about going to college next year, but I'm really going to miss the people I'm parting ways with.