Victoria Wedding Photographer – Kathy Paton

Nicknames: Sami, Samus (Work nickname), Samanthrax (Work nickname), “Mom” (The Marketing group).

Favourite Movie: Howl’s Moving Castle, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The 1982 version of The Thing,  and Meet the Robinsons.

Favourite TV Show: House MD, CSI:NY, Pretty much anything, since I don’t actually watch a lot of television.

Favourite Food: WhiteSpot Bagged Macaroni and Cheese, Salads, Rice Crackers, and Jerky

Best high school memory: I’ve had tons! I’ve made a lot of friends over the years, but I think my grade 12 year really capped it for me. I have tons of memories that I would love to share, but I think the one that takes the crown for favourite is kidnapping. Every year our grad girls have an event called Grad Kidnapping. Pretty much what it consists of is the girls going out at 4 in the morning, and dragging their grad dates out of bed, dressing them up in silly outfits, and then parading them around for most of the Cowichan Valley populace to see. This is one of favourite memories because, as a grad class, the girls all worked together to show both school spirit, and excellent scheming skills to the world, and each and every single one of us had an amazing time. (Well, apart from the boys.)

Goals for after graduation: Honestly? I don’t really know what I want to do after graduating from Frances Kelsey this year. I get this question asked at me a lot, and the answer is always so non-committed that I think I’m just going to wing it and make a plan on the spot. Here it goes: I’m planning on taking a year off from school to give myself a break from everything. As much as I love school and learning, its been a long (and ridiculously busy) haul. In the spring of next year, I want to take a couple months off to go volunteer in another part of the world, and hopefully do some good. The rest of the year will be dedicated to earning some money, doing a bit of traveling, and then attending schooling in the fall of 2012. My current choice of schooling would be for taking a few Flight Attendant courses, some Business Courses, a few ESL courses, and then Opairing abroad for a year. After that, my goal is probably going to be to enter into a University for teaching, becoming a school counsellor, or as a social worker.

Favourite Memory with these lovely ladies: We’ve known each other since we were four/five years old, and I honestly can’t imagine them not being a huge part of my life.  So, I have hundreds of memories from every point in my life. My favourite moments so far with them have occurred during our retreats. Every year we go stay in a vacation retreat house out in Sooke. It’s called Craidelonna, and it is probably one of the most beautiful places ever to exist on earth. We goof around, talk about everything under the sun, eat healthily, hot tub, take pictures, spend time on the beach and in the forest, joke around, and spend long nights in a cabin separated from the main part of the house.