hellooo -catherine van tatenhove

Hello second hour I'm Catherine Van Tatenhove.

It's hard to grasp that I'm a junior. I vividly recall seeing my brother, cooper, have his fair share of junior year meltdowns and thinking there's no conceivable way I will ever live to see my junior year. It's decades away. But, nevertheless, here I am feeling a lot less like a junior a lot more like a middle schooler walking the halls with my trapper and dreaming of the day I would get my braces off. Thankfully, I did accomplish my goal of ridding myself of the horrid "brace-face" photos, but I hope I can keep up that track record with the goals I have set for this year.

Of course, I hope to maintain good grades, AP test scores, and standardize scores, but really I just want to consume and devour everything I love to find out why I am trying to maintain the grades that I am. Consuming and devouring is kind of my thing, whether it’s a season of True Detective, Tame Impala’s new album, or a grapefruit. There seems to be a constant stream of film, literature, music, and yeah food in my life that I can’t get enough of.  

So, it won’t come as a shock to know that this was in essence how my summer was spent with the occasional (everyday twice a day practices) kick of a soccer ball. However, even though on paper I look like I am soccer fanatic young republican loving student. I truly wish I could let college admissions in on how much I can’t wait to go to Amsterdam to see the Anne Frank  house, or Peru to climb Machu Picchu, or to speak seven languages fluently, or to be able to run a 6:00 minute mile, or to write something that makes up for all the math problems I can’t do. Because I intend to check all of these things off my list at some point just as I did with my braces. 

Enjoy this photo of Meriwether, Isabel, Keeley and I pre shark encounter post third degree burn in Bald Head Island.

Matthew McConaughey is well just watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD2cVhC-63I

Favorite Website (shhh lol) : http://projectfreetv.so/