This weekend, I went back home and pulled my riding boots from freshman year out of the very back of my closet. They were still pretty dirty, with the spurs buckled on and definitely felt more snug than I remembered. For the first time in three years, I am going to ride again! As spring […]
Author Archives: Zoey '12
Senior Exhibition
I am so excited by my senior exhibition project (a year-long research project in a field of choice mandatory for all seniors) looking into Street Art used for social change. When I began, I was mostly inspired by one relatively well-known artist and only hopeful that I would find more artists like him using his […]
Sunday Morning
Four years have not yet taught me to make a good smoothie. Every Sunday brunch I try, yet my experiments in banana-strawberry-mango proportions never seem to lead to perfection, let alone edibility. There we were, all the same, drinking our viscous strawberry sludge on the Pergola while studying for art history, engrossed in our work, […]
Amnesty Weekend
You might assume that a boarding school in the idyllic Ojai mountains would be isolated from the concerns of the rest of the world, but my past weekend trip proves the opposite: the school’s Amnesty International club organized a trip for a dozen students to downtown Los Angeles for Amnesty’s annual western regional conference. After […]
Appreciating Home
Driving up to Ojai for the first time in over a year, after a junior year filled with cobblestone streets, rainy rose gardens and adorable little French children, having flown geographically and culturally very far away from this unique spot of southern California green, the unassuming beauty of the landscape took me by surprise. That […]
In France for the Year!
School Year Abroad–en France! [nggallery id=5]
Envelope
envelope– “a flat paper container with a sealable flap, used to enclose a letter or document.” Seemingly innocuous strips of processed trees, a bit of adhesive (typically used in the particularly unsanitary work of licking the envelope closed), some clever folding and you have an envelope… one of some thousand–trillion- bajillion that crawl through the […]
Biophilia
I am a nature junkie. I could spend my days perfectly content beneath a willow tree… watching for the sun’s pink entrances and exits, and being entertained by the pursuits of ladybugs. However, it is too often that we forget the value of nature as our speeding lives rarely allow for the appreciation of a […]
Leftovers: Be Careful When You Use that Word
We sophomore girls on the Hill have something of an advent calendar. On our kitchen whiteboard, some girls have written out a countdown to the first day of winter break and although we don’t get candy for each day, we get the satisfaction of being one day closer to it. The board is abundant with yays! […]
Doors Closing, Doors Opening
This evening, I enjoyed the blessing, (or was it a curse?) of having my independent proposal rejected. You may ask, where is the blessing in the cold, impersonal, yet-all-too familiar phrase I am sorry to inform you… followed inevitably by the trillion-ton anvil of rejection. To tell you the truth, I, myself, was unaware of any positives […]