An individual who has not changed for any one or any thing.
Kerryn karrasing sits comfortably on a wooden chair, almost as if she is slumped in front of the television, which is her favourite past time. She has a very positive presence that almost brightens up the room. She appears reserved at first but she is just the opposite.
She pulls her hair over to a messy side parting as she focuses trying to reflect on her first year at Rhodes. She has always been a fun loving girl not concerned about what others think of her. Her childhood is filled with memories of the place she calls home, a farm in the Drakensburg, where her and her siblings had great adventures. She focuses on a place in the distance where she explains how her and her sister Shea used to climb to the top of her favourite mountain and stand under a waterfall which was freezing cold. She shivers as she recalls “the thrill of the freezing cold water.” Living away from civilisation, she was able to experience life of a different kind. There were no shops and nothing to get up to except innocent mischief.
Eventually it was time for this fun loving carefree child to move out of isolation in her beloved home and was sent to St Anne’s boarding school. This was where her morals were tested the most. She explains her first day of boarding school as a frightening experience. On her first day she was put into a room with a “weird Joburg coo girl” this was when she realised how well she had been brought up. Compared to boarding school, first year at Rhodes was not what she expected. She did not choose Rhodes University for and particular reason, just the fact that it had an “awesome hype around it”. The world that she had stepped into was frightening and unsheltered like nothing she had experienced before. Not only was there no, “lights out” but there are no rules. So self discipline was something that she really had to get used to. “The freedom is unbelievable” she states with a smile on her face reaching from ear to ear. With this new found freedom a whole other world of temptations emerged such as drugs, alcohol abuse and not attending lectures. However Kerryn did not sway in the wrong direction although she fitted in perfectly with a group of individuals who “partied until dawn”.
One must not be fooled by her blonde hair and blue eyes; Kerryn is an individual that knows her limits. Even though her adventurous side lets her party until the sun come up she still has limits, which she believes were drilled into her as a child growing up in the isolated Drakensburg mountains. “The thing about me is that I can play hard and work hard.” She takes her academic work seriously, ‘well serious enough to pass’ and giggles as stating so. She manages to balance all aspects of her life and has not changed her ways of life in order to impress the Rhodes community or to make a statement. She continues to be her adventures self but still knows her limits. “I have grown in first year, but it has not changed who I am”.
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Kerryn karrasing sits comfortably on a wooden chair, almost as if she is slumped in front of the television, which is her favourite past time. She has a very positive presence that almost brightens up the room. She appears reserved at first but she is just the opposite.
She pulls her hair over to a messy side parting as she focuses trying to reflect on her first year at Rhodes. She has always been a fun loving girl not concerned about what others think of her. Her childhood is filled with memories of the place she calls home, a farm in the Drakensburg, where her and her siblings had great adventures. She focuses on a place in the distance where she explains how her and her sister Shea used to climb to the top of her favourite mountain and stand under a waterfall which was freezing cold. She shivers as she recalls “the thrill of the freezing cold water.” Living away from civilisation, she was able to experience life of a different kind. There were no shops and nothing to get up to except innocent mischief.
Eventually it was time for this fun loving carefree child to move out of isolation in her beloved home and was sent to St Anne’s boarding school. This was where her morals were tested the most. She explains her first day of boarding school as a frightening experience. On her first day she was put into a room with a “weird Joburg coo girl” this was when she realised how well she had been brought up. Compared to boarding school, first year at Rhodes was not what she expected. She did not choose Rhodes University for and particular reason, just the fact that it had an “awesome hype around it”. The world that she had stepped into was frightening and unsheltered like nothing she had experienced before. Not only was there no, “lights out” but there are no rules. So self discipline was something that she really had to get used to. “The freedom is unbelievable” she states with a smile on her face reaching from ear to ear. With this new found freedom a whole other world of temptations emerged such as drugs, alcohol abuse and not attending lectures. However Kerryn did not sway in the wrong direction although she fitted in perfectly with a group of individuals who “partied until dawn”.
One must not be fooled by her blonde hair and blue eyes; Kerryn is an individual that knows her limits. Even though her adventurous side lets her party until the sun come up she still has limits, which she believes were drilled into her as a child growing up in the isolated Drakensburg mountains. “The thing about me is that I can play hard and work hard.” She takes her academic work seriously, ‘well serious enough to pass’ and giggles as stating so. She manages to balance all aspects of her life and has not changed her ways of life in order to impress the Rhodes community or to make a statement. She continues to be her adventures self but still knows her limits. “I have grown in first year, but it has not changed who I am”.
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