Lauren Freeman
Birth Date and Place
My name is
Lauren Ashley Freeman, born in San Diego on Wednesday September 6th, 1995. For
the first year of my life, I lived along with my parents in a rather small
condominium in El Cajon, and once my parents decided they
Family Members
I have happily grown up with my two parents and
little brother, alongside my grandparents of my mother’s side, and my many
aunts, uncles, and cousins. My mother was born February 4th, 1963 and was
adopted at 12 months old by my grandparents Joanne and Roger Smoyer. For twelve
years of my mother’s life, she lived in Los Angeles with her adopted family,
and later moved into the house my grandparents currently live in, residing in
Ramona. My father was born in Albany, New York on April 6th, 1964. My father is
the youngest of eight children of my grandparents, Gilberte and Lawrence
Freeman. My father moved to California
when he was twenty, six years after the death of my grandfather. Lastly, I have
one sibling, my brother Dylan. He was born in November 2000, when I was five
years old. He currently goes to the same middle school as I did, and is in the
sixth grade.
Childhood
My childhood was pretty average.
School Monday through Friday, and as much fun in the outdoors as I could. My
family would camp, go to family barbeques and of course spend days at the
beach. I started playing was soccer when I was five, so we also spent times on
the field under the sun. If we weren’t attending my games, we were for my
brother. My favorite times as a child would be at my grandparents in Ramona.
Their backyard is an acre, with horses and their two dogs, Taco and Sugar. The
sunny, yet breezy outdoors and the feeling of being home, makes it a sweet
spot. We would sit out on the back patio and talk about what is currently going
on in life. It is the one place to this day, you feel there are no worries in
the world.
In
school, I was always the teacher’s pet. I thrived on getting good
grades, doing homework, and keeping my good graces with the teacher. However, I
always loved mostly the talks with friends during recess, lunch time, and
hanging out in front of the school, just talking and having fun. It was those
times that I didn’t care how much homework I had or wqhat tests were coming,
because I was with friends. In high school, I have received Alpha Plus four times
and have kept a good grade point average throughout the past four years.
Hobbies
I’ve always been a sports fan. Whether
it is playing or watching, I enjoy it. I have played soccer for ten years in
AYSO, club, and high school teams. I love Disney, and am probably its biggest
fan. I have been to Disneyland more times than I can count. I also love to camp
and be outdoors with all of my family and close family-friends. Another thing
most people know I have as a hobby is singing. I always did sing at home or in
karaoke, but was always very frightened to sing in front of people. I knew I
could sing, but it just sounded horrible when singing to people. In my freshman
orientation, I heard the West Hills Choir, and was mesmorized. Ever since then,
I have been apart of choir, doing solos in every concert, and learning new
things about my voice everyday.
Anecdotes
I am all about music and I can’t imagine my life
without it.
Two years ago, Honors Choir for West Hills was heading to
Anaheim for my first competition with Choir. This competition was known as
“Music in the Parks”, known for the award ceremony held in Disney’s California
Adventures. We did a couple songs that we have worked on for months, and didn’t
think anything grand about our performance. We spent the whole day in
Disneyland, happy as anyone would be. We went on every ride we could handle and
had the time of our lives. To this day, anyone who went on that trip talks of
how amazing it was. Later on in the day, we made our way over to the other park,
awaiting who won the first place, overall award. Mickey and Minnie Mouse
attended and everything. Finally, we heard our division and fourth place,
third, second. Then, the announcer called for a drum roll...the winner of the
first place and overall best performance goes to West Hills High School Choir!
We all jumped up throwing our W’s in the air and howling like the wolves do.
Once the ceremony was over, we ran out of the theater, yelling and screaming
about how we overcame twenty different schools to get that amazing result. You
never think about the work you put into the songs, until that type of moment.
Of course, right after that we took some pictures with our trophy and ran to
the next ride in winning fashion. The people waiting in the Tower of Terror
line had no idea what happened just then, but we made sure they knew.
I will never forget the first time I did a solo for the concert
at West Hills. I sang one of my favorite artist’s songs, “Strange”, by Patsy
Cline. I auditioned and was so excited to see myu name on the final set list. I
wasn’t very nervous, but then came the night before. I laid in bed, thinking of
all of the things that could go great or bad. Would I fall, trip, forget the
lyrics? Would I be so great that I got a standing ovation? Well, that maybe was
out of the question, but I did think of all of the possibilities. The night of
the concert, I stood backstage waiting for the person before me to finish. My
hands were shaking, and a little warm. My legs began to shake and I started to
panic. What will it be like? I hear my name and my song, and made my way onto
the center of the stage. I waited for my track to start playing, and waited,
and waited some more. It wasn’t going! I stood there for a little more, getting
very anxious by then. I finallyb hear it start and I get my first words out.
Everything is going all right, especially for my first time up there. I finish
the song, hear big applause, and leave the stage feeling very accomplished. It
was the first time I ever sang on stage in front of anyone besides my parents
and family. It lit a fire in me to sing all the time for choir and have been
doing so ever since that night, besides the small mishap.
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Career
I recently got my first job at GTM Stores is Santee. This job
has given me the freedom from, my parents ( a little) and has given me the
responsibility of paying back the money my generous grandmother lent for my
car. In the fall, I will be attending Grossmont Community College for two
years. After those years, I will have my Associate’s Degree, and transfer to
SDSU to achieve my Bachelor’s Degree. I want to study forensic evidence and law.
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