Andrew Bakert

I can’t exactly remember the first time Andrew and I met. The first thing I can remember about him is a conversation we had after school one day. One thing that really stood out to me about Andrew is his openness. He always expresses himself regardless of what others may think (which in high school, requires a fair amount of confidence), yet he remains completely respectful while doing so. After that, we got to know each other a little bit in English last year.
But I’ve been able to learn much more about Andrew this year in English. For starters, he has a lot on his plate. The guy takes five AP classes and plays two sports! I really don’t know how he does it. While this is all very commendable, I think my favorite thing about Andrew is his natural curiosity in the world around him. He seems to know a little something about everything- be it politics, culture, food, weather, or geography (I once watched him label an entire world map with capitals and major geographical features. Being a person who barely knows their right from their left, I was stunned.).
To sum it all up, Andrew is a really interesting guy. He’s hard to define in one way or another and he’s constantly surprising me. Like how he’ll break into song if he’s inspired by the quote wall. Or how he has the vocabulary of a Harvard graduate and can write for hours and hours. It’s so hard to define him in just a blog.
Anyways, to the color! I’d have to say Andrew is a forest green, both literally and figuratively. Literally, Andrew is a very outdoorsy person and cares a lot about the environment, which both relate to forest green. But figuratively, forest green is a very layered color, it holds much more than you may see in the first glance. And in this way it is like Andrew!

Jessica Brewer

With a last name close to Jessica's alphabetically, I am not surprised that we have sat together before in high school. Last year she was with Jeremy behind John and me in Mrs. Haggerty's class and our two rows were incessantly conversing when assigned group projects. However, I didn't really know her all that well until we were assigned to sit together in English class this year. Of course, I could tell that she was studious from previous years in which she would often be the first to participate in class discussion and had an answer to every question posed. But I failed to understand her on a personal, not solely academic level.

Upon first meeting her, Jessica seems to be slightly shy. She is often busy and never talks to interrupt the teacher unless her intention is to ask or answer a pertinent question. And yet, outside of school and before or after class she is often engaged in conversation. No matter the situation, Jessica is polite as well as genuinely amiable, making it nearly impossible for others not to enjoy her company.

Given her uncanny ability to balance countless extracurriculars and challenging coursework flawlessly, Jessica remains unbelievably humble. Whenever she is praised for her accomplishments, she simply rejects the praise and insists that her actions are not extraordinary. In fact, this ability alone is extraordinary and exemplifies her modesty.

In all, Jessica is someone who can always be trusted, always add to a conversation, and always give her best effort in whatever she pursues. I would label her as purple for her deep personality and for her modest pragmatism.

I like hot things.

I couldn't decide between Stretch or State Champ, so I just flipped a coin and to determine my lucky writing topic.
Stretch (Ironically, the Champ lost) is way too complex of a guy to just describe with one color. That is why I chose the rainbow for Stretch's hue. Stretch is a huge gay pride activist, so the rainbow fits right in with him. And the whole "too complex for one color" thing applies too. There's so much to tell about a guy like Stretch Ryan that I'll just hit the highlights for you. We've already discussed his love for the gays, which goes hand in hand with his extremely liberal political ideals. He's an extreme progressive that can't shut up about health care reform, getting out of the war, and welfare. He often calls things "conservative" as the ultimate insult. But he's a man not just defined by his politics. He and I have a great history. Stretch and I first met when we were aged 2 and 3, respectively. (I'm a year older than him mentally). We used to race bikes down Fontaine as little kids and play hide-and-seek with the neighorhood gang. One of my fondest memories is watching him cry and cry over getting tagged in a particularly intense came of tag because he had absolutely no shot of ever getting anyone else "it". He may be stretchy but he is slower than Christmas. Quite literally.
Recently, I've been hanging out with his youngest brother, Walker Christopher Molten much more than Stretch because Walker isn't as big of a baby, which just adds another element to Stretch's character. Tiger (Stretch's stage name) has two brothers, and is very close with them. With three boys in one family sharing three names...it just doesn't get more close knit than that, and that is one of the many things I envy stretch for.
The bottom line is, Stretch really isn't that cool. Nobody likes him.

chelsea = amazingness

So, I started this assignment by dumping a box of crayons on the ground. I immediately took out all the ugly colors(because Chelsea is waaaay to beautiful for any of those.) Then I split all the rest up into warm and cool, and decided to go with a warm color since Chelsea is sweet, funny, easy to talk to, and all around WARM.
I thought about going with red, but red is too intense. Chelsea is much more relaxed. I thought about going with purple, but purple is too boring and overdone.
So I decided to go with magenta. It’s fun, graceful, and kind, (cuz colors can totally be kind but watevs) all of which are qualities I associate with Chelsea. Sitting next to her in English actually gives me a reason to look forward to mornings, which is pretty impressive. And she definitely wakes me up; It’s kind of impossible to be tired or bored around her. Oh, and her pretty shoes are great distractions for when I don’t want to watch dying chickens in those fun English movies we watched. (Not sarcasm by the way. I really did enjoy those. Except for the dead chickens.) The most important reason that magenta reminds me of Chelsea, though, is that every time I see it it makes me smile, just like she does. So yah. Chelsea = magenta. And awesome. :)

Elizabeth Crutcher is brown

It's hard for me to pick just one color for Liz. So I pick brown. Liz is my best friend. It's pretty obvious, right? Without her, high school just wouldn't be the same. I came to Henry Clay knowing about 5 people. And when I first met Liz, we clicked instantly. To everyone else, I bet we are sooooo obnoxious. But I don't care. When I'm around Liz, I can laugh about... cats. So colors... I picked brown because it's the color created when every color is mixed together. Liz is blue because she's sympathetic to me, she's yellow because she's fun, she's pink because I freaking LOVE her, she's purple because she's deep, she's black because she's ironic? Give me any color and I promise I can show how relate it to her. Even though I'm and ISTJ and she's an INFP, I see her as my other half. The clock work that drives us might be different, but on the outside we're just too similar. I literally couldn't ask for a better person to call my friend. Hell, we even dress the exact same without even trying. That doesn't happen to normal people. We have practically the exact same taste in music, movies, television shows, and of course clothing. Elizabeth Crutcher has made my junior year incredible. She's always there for me no matter what the situation may be. We can drive around for 3 hours talking about how annoying our boyfriends are for ditching us. When I picture the 'perfect' high school years, how our lives are right now it exactly what I imagine. Our boyfriends are best friends and we are best friends. Things couldn't have worked out more perfectly. ANYWAY. Liz is brown. But not because she's boring, she's the complete opposite. She's brown in an ironic way. Brown is considered to be a safe color and signifies intelligence, reassurance, and trust. And that my friends, is how I see Liz. I trust her with my life. Everything about it, there is no secret I would keep from her. She's my reassurance for whenever I'm feeling low. I always know I can turn to her and she'll guide me through whatever mess I twisted my way into.

So Lizzy, to steal some lines from Passion Pit....

"Oh yeah you're the best damn friend that I'll ever have
You'll always smile upon me when the seasons bad
You'll always make me feel best even when I'm blue
You'll always smile upon me and I'll smile upon you too"

Greg Myers

Greg Myers. He is a character. In a literal sense. He is the best 17 year old, high school actor that I know. Greg has already told you our personal history so I will not repeat him. There are many facets of Greg's personality that I have encountered this year. His pretentious side (I'm Greg Myers-with strange hand movement), his emotionally confused side (yes, I help Greg make some extremely important decisions-mostly regarding whether or not he should miss any more school), his geeky side (no need to explain, everyone knows), and his angry/shy side (when Greg is mad about something he does not tell you, he is very quiet about it. FYI he does not like it when everyone gets mad at him for doing so well on practice multiple choice tests.)

Anyway, Greg has become one of my pretty good friends here in this close knit family we call the Academy. Therefore, I deem that Greg is the color Forest Green. Not too light, not too dark.

Paul

I don't think I could assign Paul a single color, well at least not one within my knowledge. He is really quite funny and original. I've known him since the seventh grade, and as a friend since the end of eighth grade. I guess if i had to give him a color it be some kind of onixish ocean blue. He's a deep dude to those who don't know. Sometimes he lays pretty low, but rarely does he just go with the flow. He listens to Jack Johnson and Muse a lot, and has some qualities generally sought. He aspires to a higher form of comedy, you could say he's an anomaly. Not in a bad way though, that's just the way he roll. He thinks hard for his jokes, which aren't just simple pokes. Sorry about the rhymes, I was listening to hip hop for the first part of this blog. I didn't give him onixish blue because he's dark or anything, rather because he's deep like the ocean. Onixish represents the originality that I previously noted, I mean I think onix is a pretty unusual color.