Post by morgan parker on Jun 18, 2009 17:50:24 GMT -5
`MORGAN ALYSSA PARKER
"It's not about what's waiting on the other side, it's the climb." - The Climb, Miley Cyrus
`LOOKING AT YOU, HOLDING MY BREATHYOUR NAME Sarah
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE Four in July
HOW DID YOU FIND US? Also Aaron/Admin
`FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE I'M SCARED TO DEATHFULL NAME Morgan Alyssa Parker
NICKNAME Mo - she HATES this
AGE Eighteen
GENDER Female
ORIENTATION Straight
GRADE Senior
MAJOR Photography
`I'M TAKING A CHANCE, LETTING YOU INSIDEPOSITIVE TRAITS
- Perseverance - She's not the type of person to give up easily. If she has been set a task or a goal, she will do everything she possibly can to accomplish it. She usually doesn't leave things unfinished.
- Excellent friend - She is the type of person that if someone were to call her up at two in the morning to pick them up she would be there. She is one person you don't want to upset.
- Persistent - Along with being persevering, Morgan will continue working at something until it's accomplished. If it takes an extra two hours to do, she'll do it with determination until its done right. Vaulting has taught her about persistence and perseverance.
- Outgoing - She's a very sociable person and very easy to talk to. She likes to be around people and is often the life of the party.
- Adventurous - She is more than willing to try something just to say she did it and to experience it. You only live once after all.
NEGATIVE TRAITS
- Impatient - Any goals she sets are mostly short-term ones because she can't wait long enough to accomplish any long-term ones. She can't stand in long lines or order things online because the waiting is unbearable.
- Stubborn - She won't change her mind for just about anything. She's very set in her ways and anything or anyone that tries to change them had better watch out. If she wants something she will damn well get it one way or another.
- Selfish - Most people are selfish in some way or another. Morgan is a great friend when need be, but until then it's all about Morgan. And if she were to pick someone up at two in the morning, there better be some sort of thank you in return, although she won't outright say "You owe me."
- Persistent - Because she will continue to try and try and try until she gets something, she has, more than once, been forced to stop because of injury or she loses sight if what is important.
- Perfectionist - She goes by the motto, "If you want something done right do it yourself." When it comes to school she would rather work alone on a project than with a partner because she know she can count on herself. She HAS to get A's in all her classes or else she freaks out. This trait doesn't only go for school, but life as well.
LIKES
- Photography - Well, she wouldn't be majoring in it otherwise would she?
- Sports - She's a very active person and can't sit still for very long. She goes for runs every morning and plays tennis whenever she can.
- Greasy food - She may be a big athletic person, but she's a sucker for a good and juicy burger. If she dies young from clogged arteries, at least she'll be happy.
- Horses - She grew up on a horse farm and misses it terribly since Chicago School doesn't allow animals. There wouldn't be room for a horse anyway in the city.
- Vaulting - The equestrian version, not the one with the pole. She was on a vaulting team when she was younger where she had to do flips and rolls on the back of a horse while it was galloping around an arena.
DISLIKES
- School - Who doesn't though? It gets in the way of the important things. But Photography class is the best because, aside from developing the pictures, the class takes place either outside or somewhere other than the classroom.
- Clothes shopping - She hates trying on clothes and doesn't understand how anyone could spend hours on end trying on clothes that they probably aren't going to buy anyway. Pointless nonsense.
- Sitting still - She can't sit still for more than five minutes without having to get up and walk around. It's the biggest reason she hates school, because she's forced to sit for 90 minutes without reprieve. She frequently takes bathroom breaks.
- Getting her picture taken - She loves taking pictures of other people, but if someone were to turn the camera on her she would hide her face or run away. She hates it.
- Animal abuse - She is a big supporter of animal rights and hates to see animals being hurt. She volunteers with an animal rescue in the city.
- Waiting - She hates waiting for anything. She's a very impatient person and can't stand in long lines, she'd just as soon put whatever she was getting back and wait until later. If city traffic is backed up, she gets terrible road rage.
HOPES AND DREAMS She hopes that Scott will be sent home soon so they can carry out their plans to go to California and attend college together. She also dreams that one day she will own her own horse farm and continue vaulting, but also teach others about the unique sport and teach them not to fear anything but fear itself.
FEARS Her biggest fear is that Scott won't come home alive. But second to that, it would be falling for another guy even though her whole heart was given to Scott. Third would be getting into an accident that paralyzed her in some way that she wouldn't be able to be as active as before or ride again.
`FEELING ALIVE ALL OVER AGAINCELEBRITY CLAIM Lindze Letherman
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Morgan is an athlete and therefore has an athletic build. She stands 5'6" all the time since she doesn't wear anything with a heel to it. She adores flip-flops but will often wear sneakers since some sports are better suited for comfortable footwear. She's a shorts and tank-top kind of girl and would wear them year-round if weather permitted. But because of the winter season she is stuck with jeans and pull-overs. Morgan's hair is dark brown, but it gets lighter in the summer from the sun. Sometimes she will streak it with blonde highlights but not very often. She keeps her hair short, laying on her shoulders at its longest. Usually it's straight but it is most seen in a pony tail or some sort of up-due. If it's ever down its usually curly. She doesn't like getting dressed up unless she absolutely has to, like for a wedding, and wouldn't be caught dead in a clothing store unless dragged into one against her will, or she is in desperate need of something.
`AS DEEP AS THE SKY, UNDER MY SKINHISTORY On a summer day in a small town on the outskirts of Cincinnati, Ohio, Laura Parker gave birth to her first born. Her husband, and the baby girl's father, Mike, couldn't make it to the hospital in time because at the same time one of the mares on the family's farm was having trouble with her own delivery. Three hours after the birth of Morgan, there was another new addition to the Parker Farm, an Anglo-Arab colt named Champion's Spirit, derived from his sire's registered name Unbridled Spirit.
When baby Morgan was finally able to come home, there was never a moment she wasn't down at the stables, strapped to her mother's back. She went everywhere her mother did, to the riding rings, the turn-out paddocks. She began mucking stalls at a week old, probably the youngest person in history to do so. When she was old enough to walk, Morgan often ran away from her parents when they weren't looking and always found herself in the stall of one of the family's mares. Her name was Belle, an Appaloosa mare that was getting up there in her years. She wasn't ridden very often because she had arthritis in her hips. That didn't stop her from bossing around the other mares she was turned out with though. She was definitely the matriarch of the herd.
Belle was the first horse that Morgan ever rode. Because the young tot took such a liking to the mare, and the mare didn't seem at all bothered by her, Laura and Mike started Morgan off at a young age. She sat bareback on Belle, with her father spotting her to make sure she didn't fall off and her mother leading the old Appaloosa around the stable yard. The mare was always careful where she walked with Morgan on her back, knowing how precious her cargo was.
When Morgan was six, she got her first pony. He was a Welsh Pony named Twister. Despite his name, Twister was a very calm borderline lazy pony. He wouldn't go more than a few stride at a trot, but Morgan was just as happy to walk. However, it didn't take long for her to get bored with that too and begin experimenting with other forms of entertainment on their rides. Twister was laid back and lazy so you could do just about anything to him and he wouldn't so much as bat an eye. Well, Morgan put him to the test one day when she took her self out of the saddle and knelt on it. Twister continued walking only turning his head to see what his rider was doing. That was how Morgan began her vaulting career.
Over the next year, she did more and more on the back of Twister, eventually learning to balance herself so she could actually stand on his back! Granted, he was always walking, but it was something. She never thought anything of it at the time, not knowing there was a sport that actually called for the routines Morgan was coming up with. She just wanted a more entertaining ride. The first time her mother saw Morgan standing on Twister she nearly had a heart attack. When she called out, she spooked the pony and he took off at an extended trot. Morgan nearly lost her balance for a couple of strides, but found it again and remained standing. Even Laura was amazed by the skill the young rider showed.
Morgan was later enrolled in a gymnastics class after school twice a week. If she wanted to do crazy stunts on horseback, she was at least going to do it with some background under her belt. Morgan went through elementary school learning how to balance herself properly while walking and doing flips so she didn't fall. In school, she was an excellent student and had a handful of friends, all of which had their own horses or were horse nuts. She went on rides as much as she could with her friends, sometimes showing off her skills on horseback. All her friends were enthralled and wanted to see more. But she couldn't do much more than stand on Twister's back, she hadn't tried anything else.
Eventually, Morgan out grew Twister and was stuck without a horse of her own for a while. She ended up riding the farm's lesson horses or sometimes the horses that were boarded at the farm for their owners. She had more of a responsibility in the stable now, mucking stalls and helping feed. She was still taking gymnastics classes after school and chattered non-stop to the coach about what she did on the horses. Intrigued by the girl, the coach spoke to Laura and Mike about getting Morgan into vaulting. He explained that it was a sport where she did the exact things she was doing in class, only on horseback. At first, the Parker's weren't sure about the idea. It sounded dangerous and like a circus act but when the coach gave them the name of a stable that actually taught vaulting, they went for a visit. After watching a routine, single and group, they talked with the instructor who said it was safer than it appeared, but certainly as difficult as it looked.
That night at dinner, the family discussed the idea of Morgan taking vaulting lessons. She was starting junior high in the fall and they didn't want anything to interfere with school. Morgan eagerly promised that it wouldn't, and so she was enrolled. For the remainder of the summer, Morgan worked at Rolling Hills Farm with Janice Carver, the owner and trainer of the farm's vaulting horses. There were four horses used for the sport, two Percherons, a Belgian Draft Horse, and a Suffolk Punch. Dave and Buster, Carla, and Doc. Morgan started on Carla, the smoothest of the four and used for beginners. She started off with the basics, and gradually moved up. By the end of the summer she was standing on Carla's back while the mare took small jumps. Morgan fell in love with the sport almost immediately.
When school started, things began to get harder. Morgan was a straight-A student all the way through but when she started working on a routine for her first competition with Carla, she couldn't get part of the combination down where she had to do a Ground Jump and then a Scissor, always sliding off the other wide of Carla. She started falling apart. She wanted to practice over and over until Carla got tired of trotting in a circle and Morgan's hands were scraped and her butt sore. It bothered her to the point where she couldn't consentrate in school and fail her first test, ever. When her parents saw her grade they told her she needed to focus on what was most important and that wasn't vaulting or else she was going to be grounded, literally, until her grades got better. Morgan promised and did better on her next test, but was still obsessing over the competition. It was less than two weeks away and she still couldn't get it down. The stress was causing her to lose sleep, forget her chores at her own farm and be short with her parents and friends. Morgan's parents, and Janice, both decided it would be best to pull Morgan from the competition. She was losing sight of what was important. Devastated, Morgan was grounded for the winter.
She couldn't ride until she had a wake-up call and now had more time to focus on school and stable chores. Morgan then received a project from her English teacher which required her to write a piece on something she loved more than anything and then create a media component to go with it, whether it be a video, poster, power-point, etc. Naturally, Morgan chose vaulting and she spent two days typing a short novel about the sport. When it came to media, she didn't know what she could do. She didn't have a video camera and a poster was too generic. Instead, she found her father's old Nikon F and went over to Rolling Hills to watch a vaulting lesson with another team member, Melanie. Morgan got up close and personal with the camera, taking images of angles not even the crew at the competitions could get at. She nearly got run over more than once, and yelled at by Janice just about every second, but she got her shots. After developing them in the garage with the help of her father, she matted the best ones and completed her project. The teacher was so impressed with Morgan's work, she asked her to enter them into an art contest at the high school. So she did. To her great surprise, she won third place.
From then on, until she could ride again, Morgan did a lot of ground work and publicity for the farm. She helped create a website with a slide-show of images depicting the horses and vaulters. Finally, she was able to get back in the saddle and this time did it with a whole new view. She remembered her photographs and felt the emotion running through her that she saw in them. She fell in love with the sport all over again in a whole new way. Next year, she entered her first competition, coming in 5th. But it didn't bother her as it would have last year. She even skipped a few other competitions just so she could take pictures of the rest of the team making Rolling Hills proud.
When eighth grade rolled around, Morgan had two loves. Vaulting and photography. She couldn't do both at the same time and knew she had to choose. By the end of junior high, Morgan chose photography over vaulting and asked to be enrolled in a school that she could learn all there was about taking pictures. She knew about angles, lighting, and how to develop negatives, but there was so much more to it. She wanted to learn. So, her parents enrolled her in the Chicago School of Performing and Visual arts, one state over. Morgan had been hoping for a closer school, or at least one not in the city so she could continue riding, but didn't complain to her parents, knowing they were spending a lot to make her happy. So, Morgan packed up and headed for Chicago.
As a freshman, she didn't know anyone and felt out of place. She went to her classes then to her dorm to do homework. She rarely went into town, and lived through the internet. She IMed her friends back home and watched competitions over the internet and had Janice learn YouTube so she could upload videos from Rolling Hills for Morgan to watch. She even found some older ones of Morgan herself vaulting and watched them over and over. One day while sitting outside a cafe with her laptop, watching these videos, a shadow came over the screen. His name was Scott, he was a Sophomore at a public high school in Chicago with big plans for himself. He wanted to enlist in the army, kill a bunch of bad guys then return home and go to college in California. Morgan wished him luck with that.
However, over the next two years, Morgan ran into Scott a lot around the city. Sometimes she wondered if he was actually stalking her. He claimed he wasn't, but would often follow at a distance wherever she went until he found it convenient to bump into her. She was freaked out and he was amused. But she had to admit that the guy was growing on her. Finally, she couldn't take it anymore and one day while he was following her, turned around and marched right over to him and said, "For God's sake! If you're going to follow me for the rest of my life you might as well ask me out!" He smiled then kissed her. Then asked her out. From that moment, Morgan and Scott were a big thing. She couldn't see him a lot because they went to different schools, but every weekend they spent together. Once he even surprised her with a trip to a riding stable outside of the city. He didn't like riding much, because of bad childhood memories, but he went for Morgan's sake.
Morgan was a Junior at Chicago School and Scott was a senior at Clinton High. Their fairy tale relationship would have to end sooner or later and it was coming fast. Scott was enlisted with the army and supposed to head for boot-camp the day after he graduated. For the first time ever, Morgan skipped out on school to spend the last few days with him. He asked her to come to California with him when he got back. "Wait for me" He told her and she promised that she would. Scott left with the promise of a letter a day, and with Morgan's heart. She loved Scott, and never had the chance to tell him.
Now in her senior year at Chicago School, Scott still writes and Morgan still waits. She is constantly worried that something will happen to him, but he always finds was to assure her he will return safe and sound. She just prays that day will be soon.
`LIKE BEING IN LOVE SHE SAYSRPING EXAMPLE you know how I do xD word
`FOR THE FIRST TIMESCHEDULEFALL
BLOCK 1 Senior English
BLOCK 2 Photography - Composition
BLOCK 3 Senior Math
BLOCK 4 Senior Science
SPRING
BLOCK 1 Senior Gym/PE
BLOCK 2 Photography - Special Effects
BLOCK 3 Senior Social Studies
BLOCK 4 Photography - Advanced
DID YOU READ THE RULES? -----------
ANYTHING ELSE TO TELL US? A video of "Morgan" vaulting. Clickeh
