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VivifyPatrick Haertel 10 11-


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My elbows and knees carry the scars o

sixteen years o childs play. My colorblind

eyes search aces and environments, but can

scarcely see their own color. My callused

hands grasp hold a pen or a book, but my

mind cannot understand the hugeness o the

universe around it. Pain fashes, now and

again, just below the surace o the waters

o my heada amiliar, despised sign o an

oncoming migraine. And despite all this, I

still have the nerve to ask one simple question

o mysel:

What Am I?

Middle class, sixteen-year-old sel-styled

intellectual with a love o campres and an

afnity or bad ashion sense searches orlove,

reason and, above all, vivacity.

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Situated in the middle oOtter Creek Recreational Area,Camp Piomingo is by no meanscity living. Campers live incabins during their stay, and-depending on the program-spend various amounts o timeoutdoors.

Ive always been an

outdoorsy person, and campgives me the opportunity toshow that side o me, Patricksaid. I really loved backpackingor the weekend and constantlyhaving a re going. It smells sogood and I immediately miss it

when I get home.

Te woods is the best aspect o it. No wireless, no cell phnothing to distract you. Just being outside or that long isantastic. -Ryan Simpson, Counselor

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Many o Patricks riends that have been going to camp w

or years have decided to end their Piomingo career. Amonare campers Matt Martin, Jacob Linde and Richard Stottm

with counselors Grant Snowden and Andrew Spalding.I wont be going back next year, Matt Martin said. I e

Ive already learned all there is to learn rom camp. I alreadthough that not going back will be something I regret or tmy lie. [Note: Matt doesnt always say the brightest thing

Ater ten weeks over ve summers

o attending YMCA Camp Piomingo

in Meade County, KY, Patrick Haertel

excitedly awaits his nal summer as a

camper. Tis coming summer will be

Patricks CI Summer, a time in anyPiomingo anatics lie that they never

orget.

Te term CI Summer reers to

the our weeks in which a Counselor-

In-raining spends learning to work

with kids, lead camp activities, tell

camps many horric ghost stories and

sing ridiculous songs. More important

is the bonding participants experience

with other campers and counselors, not

to mention the comradery they have

already developed with other campers

who return year ater year.

No matter how you approach it, you

will remember that summer orever,

Ryan Simpson, a new counselor at

Piomingo said. Tere is probably a

100% chance that being a CI at camp

will change you. It will make you a man.

For me, it was a right o passage.

Spending time in the woods with

other people whom youve oten never

met beore is a great way to make

riends and learn to cooperate withother people, Patrick said. Its also an

amazing way to learn about yoursel. You

learn your strengths and weaknesses and

you end up improving yoursel when its

all said and done.

Among the things Patrick has learned

while spending time at Piomingo is

his joy o working with kids. While he

initially had doubts about the kids liking

him, Patrick soon ound that he actually

enjoyed working with them. Tis past

summer I hung out with a younger

camper named rey Ashley, Patrick

said. It turned out that I actually ended

up learning a lot rom him. Little kids

have a completely diferent view o the

world.

Created in 1938, Piomingo has a

rich history and maintains an American

Indian theme, with campres, war

paint and ceremonial dress having

an integral place in camp history and

ceremony. Tis can be at least partially

attributed to Injun Joe Friday, an earlycounselor who was an Algonquin Indian.

Joe Friday also helped orm the YMCAs

Indian Guides Program.

Piomingos history is ull o legend

and myth, but many ormer counselors

remember their glory days a little

diferently. It could get pretty crazy,

Spencer Martin, Sr., a counselor in the

mid-1980s remembered. We used to

borrow horses rom the barn and ride

around camp. One time we shot arrows

into the side o a counselor cabin and

scared the [heck] out o them.

I never shut up about camp. People

must think Im nuts, but they just dont

understand. Piomingo is my home,

Patrick said.

Into Hot chocolate, rozen toes and evcharacterized Winter Camp 2010. Penjoyed board games, a git exchangshort excursions into the elements toslide and zipline.Patrick, Cooper Whaley, Abby

Morguelan and I got really close duWinter Camp. We had all known earom beore, but we were the oldest there and so we ended up hanging ocamper Hannah Diehl said.

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Come orth into the light

o things, let nature be your

teacher. -William Wordsworth

WildPatrick Haertel cant wait or his CI Summer at Camp Piomingo

1. Showing Of | Camper reyAshley shows of his Winter Campgit- a set o toy cars and signs. Eachcamper recieved one git duringthe Winter Camp git exchange,

which Piomingo provided or ree.I dont know how they knew Iliked cars so much! rey said. 2.Koalas at Kamp? | A camper hangsupside down on a tree ater beingplaced their by laughing counselor

Alex Sehlinger. It just seemed like agood idea at the time, Alex said. 3.Christmas Spirit | A young campersits on Abby Morguelans lap. Abbyis one o Patricks best riends andalso aspires to be a counselor. Rosie

wouldnt leave my side or all oWinter Camp, Abby said.

Playin It Cool | Cooper Whaley rides his sled out o PipelineSlide at YMCA Camp Piomingo.

otem | Cooper Whaley and Patrick orm a human totem poll asthey pose or a picture. Only at camp...

Bye Bye | Patricks riendsMatt Martin (let), JacobLinde and Richard Stottman

will not be returning to camp.

Embrace Your Fate | Cooper Whaley decide toexpress that he does, in act, love nature and

YMCA Camp Piomingo.

reethatHug

Just(literally)Chillin

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4. Motley Crew | Camper IanMcKinley shows of his duct-tapedboots ater crossing a creek duringCampCrater outpost. Participantsbackpacked around Otter CreekPark or the weekend. Tis was oneo Patricks avorite parts o camp. 5.Lady Gaga | Camper Hannah Diehlplays Gaga, a dodgeball-like campgame. Gaga tournaments make upa large amount o time at camp. 6.Hay Is For Rides | Counselor AlexSehlinger stood on the back o thetrailer during the hay ride at WinterCamp. Alex has been Patrickscounselor or two years running.7. Camper Ian Mckinley takes adramatic break towards the end othe Outpost hike. Te hilarity othis image will orever be engrainedin Patricks brain.

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Te diversity o soccer players andsoccers reputation as an internationalsport brings with it a multiculturalexperience that many people inthe U.S. never experience. Patrickswitched to LSA 95A, which had ourKenyan players who moved to the

U.S. through reugee programs.Over the years, Patrick hasdeveloped riendships with teammatesand coaches rom ar-o places likeSenegal, Kenya, Bosnia, Iran andIraq. On the feld, many o t heseplayers are talented rom spendingtheir childhood with nothing to dobut play soccer. My dad grew upin Iran, Kayvon Ghayoumi said.When they had a soccer ball, theyplayed soccer. When they had a tennisball, they used it as a soccer ball.

When they had only rags, they kickedrags into garbage can goals.

Kayvons dad, Mehdi Ghayoumi,coached Patrick in the past. I reallyliked playing or Mehdi. Only

very rarely did I have any troubleunderstanding him or anything, and Igot to be close riends with Kayvon,

Patrick said. Going over to theirhouse taught me a lot about Iranianculture.

LSA 95As our Kenyan players areoster children here in the UnitedStates. All have dierent backgrounds,but none o them are particularly

happy. Abas Isgowe, a midfelder, lostboth o his parents to civil unrest inKenya when he was a young child. Heand the other children ended up ina reugee camp where the only oodthey got was rom the UN.

When I graduate high school, Iwant to go back to Kenya. We didnthave to go to school. We could runree on the streets, Hussein Darbanesaid. I want to go back and starta shop. Or maybe Ill buy a movietheatre and run it. Id like that.

When asked about the violence inKenya, Hussein shrugged. Tere wasalways an element o violence. Yougot used to it, he said. Usually it

was just kids fghting. We always usedto fght Sudanese kids in the reugeecamp a lot. Tey were everywhere and

we hated them.

Patricks frst club coachBasse at United 1996 FC,and raised in Senegal and three proessional clubs thused to like to yell No gragrapes! reerring to how wup, Patrick said. Althou

had some problems workiJoseph as a coach, I really respect him. He helped m

Perhaps one o the mospeople Patrick has played Qamar Shaker. Qamar orlived in Baghdad, Iraq, bu

American soldiers invadedstarted looking or a new p

When American soldiers shot Qamars uncle and shhis parents packed up andto Syria, where he lived un10. Ten they moved to thStates.

Playing soccer with peall over the world has givetotally new perspective, Psaid. Most people never gmeet people like this and lthings.

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Switching to a new team isntalways easy, as Patrick knows well.Patrick switched to LSA 95A dueto the dissolution o his previousteam, and it took some time toget used to playing with his newteammates. People have theirquirks and problems, and it takes

time to get used to them andlearn how to work with them,Patrick said. It seems like thisalways happens. Guys can be

jerks, and you really have to carveout your spot on the team beoreyou get any respect. Maybe its

just me.

Sports come with injuries, and soccer is no exception. Patrick hassprained his let ankle three times and had innumerable other smallinjuries like bruises and scrapes rom playing soccer. You should seehow many scars I have on my legs. Ive got so many scars that my scarsare scarred, Patrick said. My ankles? Teyre giant scars. People arent

very careul about kicking you. Soccer isnt or sissies.

It aint easy being greenor being asoccer player. For a ew months everyyear, soccer takes up all my time. Impretty sure my riends orget who I am,

Patrick said. In addition to soccer, Patrickmust complete schoolwork, likes to hangout with riends and, o course, sendeighty million text messages a day.

Patrick is the third generation o soccerplayers in his dads side o the amily. Hisgreat-grandather played soccer on a clubteam in Germany ater World War One.

When Germany was ordered to disperse itsarmy, Patricks great-grandathers unit stuck

together as a semi-proessional soccer team.When Patricks dad visited Germany as ateenager, his grandather instilled a love osoccer in him and sent him to a boys soccercamp. He then passed on his love o thegame to Patrick.

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we won the league. -Mark Viduka

1. Tirsty? | Musa and Abas gulp water at hal time. Recordhighs made KY State Cup a little too warm. It was s o hotthat Musa couldnt play our last game, Abas said. 2. Wetand Muddy | LSA 95A pose or a picture ater a particularlymuddy tournament game in Birmingham. Tree inches o

water stood on the feld. Youd kick the ball and it wouldntgo anywhere, Goalkeeper Alex Gossen said. 3. Close, butno cigar | Kayvon Ghayoumi nearly makes a goal whenthe goalie slides out and saves it. Also pictured is ylerBeckmann (LSA 95A) on right. I almost had it, Kayvonsaid. Just a second earlier and it was mine. 4. Clear theBall! | Patrick Haertel takes a goalkick in a mid-season LSAgame. (#1 and #4 are by Amanda Vance)

5. Kickin it old school | Patricks great-grandather

(let) stands with his soccer team in 1919. 6.RAWWWR! | A young Patrick erociously guards agoal in his early days o soccer at HYR (Highland

Youth Recreation.) Patrick now reerees or HYR.

7. Heavy Use Abuse | Te embroidery o PatricksLSA jersey is already coming undone ater justone season. A total o over 20 soccer games in oneseason means kits get torn up.

8. Butt to Gut | Patrickshields the ball rom anoponent in the corner nearhis goalline. Contact playsuch as this oten leads toinjury, which commonlycomes in the orm ogetting rogged. (Photoby Amanda Vance)

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A glimmer o interest inphotography had always hid

in the back o Patrick Haertelsmind, but he never thoughtmuch about it. I guess someo it was my colorblindnessand some o it was my lack oartistic prowess, Patrick said.And, o course, it really isnt acheap hobby.

Te longer he stayed inCMA, the more he realized heactually was very interested init. I mowed a lot o yards lastsummer, and it paid o. NowI have my own camera and Im

working on lenses, Patricksaid. Ive actually earnedthe money or every pieceo photographic equipmentI own, be it through lawnmowing, reereeing or workingor my dad.

A lot o people have helped

Patrick with photography,but none more so than

Seth Fischer. I wanted tohelp Patrick out because Ithought he had an interest inphotography and I recognizedhim rom the Brown School,Seth said. I elt a sort oconnection with him because

we went to middle schooltogether, and I wanted to teachanother photographer thethings that I know so he cancontinue to pass it on to utureyearbook photographers.

Seth has taught me a lot,especially about equipment andhow to learn photography oryoursel. He really knows whathes talking about, and Im sureId have handed over lots omoney or things I didnt needhad he not been around tohelp me, Patrick said. Id go

as ar as saying hes mentoredme. Every new photographer

should have a mentor.Patrick has also learned a

lot on his own. He practicedat Farmington Historic Home(which is near his house,)around his neighborhood, atmultiple parks and in multiplecities. He also shot the PegasusParade and the Balloon Glow,and has taken pictures oconcerts o live local bands likeBeady and Tink Harder.

I really like naturephotography, but Im stilltrying to gure out how tomake it all look good. Anyonecan take a picture o a duck,but only some people can makeit a good picture o a duck,Patrick said. Tats what Ihave to gure out how to do. Ilike ducks.

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PictureTis!

CMA

A newound interest in photographygrows into something bigger

Patrick grew to enjoy gdesign in Desktop Publibut eventually realized de

where he wanted to go. and Im good with Indesdont want to be a Designyearbook anymore, Patr

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Yearbook club was an interexperience. Patrick got to knoCMA students and explored acets o CMA. I think that part o yearbook club was getto some other students, PatrI didnt really think I wantedyearbook until I was in yearb

Patrick has always been interested incomputers and current events, so CMAhas been a good t. It really ts myinterests and I love both the reedomand expectations were given, Patricksaid. I also love the people in CMA. Ivemade a lot o riends and Ive gained alot o respect or both the people in mymagnet and proessional journalists anddesigners.

Patricks dad, im Haertel, is an audio engineerand runs his own studio. Much o Patricks interestin communications likely stems rom having beenexposed to dierent types o communicationstechnology throughout his childhood. My dadtook me to his studio a lot when I was younger,Patrick said. I gured Id take over his studio

when I graduate or a long time.

You dont take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.

Struggle

1. We have lito! | A seagull takes o o the beach on Hatteras Islandin North Carolina. Tis was the rst trip that Patrick took his cameraon. Although I didnt really get very many good pictures, I learned alot about photography, Patrick said. 2. Happy Spring | A fower peeksout o Patricks ront garden in the spring. Patrick took this picture toput on the City o Strathmoor Village blog. 3. Hey Ladies | A peacockat Henrys Ark fies his colors since he cant fy himsel. 4. Natural

Weather Notications | Patricks mother likes to hang windchimes.Tis was one o the rst pictures Patrick ever took.

5. Hard at Work | Allison raylor workseverishly to complete her personal yearbookproject or Desktop Publishing.

6. Pride and Joy |Rebecca Woodburndisplays Manuals 2011

Yearbook Canvas.

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vivifI could write a long, dramatic piece f

closing, but it wouldnt mean anythin

to me, not to you, and not to Prissy (

in background.) Instead, Im just goi

reiterate one of the biggest things Ive

this year. Life doesnt always go the w

want it to, but you have to keep livin

Life is short. Lets have fun. Lets jum

those puddles. Lets take some risks a

ourselves. Lets use pictures of our cat

backgrounds for school projects. Fran

think its 100 times more personable

some unnamed, far-o landscape tha

nice but has no character.

Meet Prissy. Shes vivid. You just have

at her right. Meow.

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