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| Awww, Grade 1 (I think). Grade 1 photos are cute |
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| Grade 2? Pigtails are still on trend. |
Since I've started this blog, I've been having to go through old albums to find the appropriate photos. I have really been enjoying this, and loving remembering a lot of good times - because photos are almost always about the good times, aren't they?
I still have my hairs set on end when I turn a page and find an exceedingly large school photo taking pride of place in the middle of the album. Uggghh, do we NEED to remember how awkward I was? Of course, going through awkward times and having hideous photos is a right of passage for all of us and quite frankly, they are part of who we are whether we like it or not. Trust me, as you will see, most of mine are in the 'not' category!
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| Grade 3, on the slippery-slope to awkward. |
I don't think I've ever spoken to anyone that said, 'Yeah, grade 6, that was a great yearbook photo! I really love it." Grade 6 must be one of the most awkward times, although the teens are a close second, especially for boys. Why did all of the boys look SO young in our high school yearbooks? They don't look like men until they are in their 20's. Every rule has an exception, and there was always one or two boys at school that grew faster (notice I did not use the word 'matured'?) and had full facial hair - not the wispy attempts that other boys had perched on their upper lip, like the old Eastern European nannas had. Not surprisingly, these boys were the ones that we sent to get our beer for those regular weekend bush parties.
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| Grade 6...Ugggh! |
While these posed snapshots make us cringe and everyone else laugh, they are great mementos of fashion, hairstyles and what was currently trending in glasses for those that wore them. Primary school photos also give insight into what our parents thought was appropriate clothing to dress us in to be remembered ad infinitum. What were they thinking? In later school years, the are a good reminder of what WE thought was cool to be wearing for those photos. What were WE thinking?
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| Grade 8 or 9 |
After all those years of posing sitting straight, shoulders slightly turned, head slightly tilted we finally get to the graduation photos. Poised on the edge of adulthood, our faces were full of anticipation and hope, as well as relief at finally being out of school. We looked forward to being treated like an adult (while still acting like a goose) and embraced our new-found independence (while still relying on our parents for housing, food and money). At least we got proofs from our photo session and they blessed us with touch-ups (which would be called photoshop today...a much more appropriate phrase than touch-up). Thank goodness for that, my face was a pizza at that age. If only acne could have disappeared that quickly in real life....
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| High School Grad - where did my zits go? |
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| College Grad - All Grown Up |
So enjoy those fat-faced, gap toothed and big haired photos - I'm sure that gawky kid still lives inside all of us. I know mines still there - she rears her fuzzy head quite often and I have to remind her "Hey, I'm an adult now."
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