OC HIGH / STUDENT NEWS & VIEWS : MY BEDROOM
It might be cluttered or neat. Perhaps the walls are covered with posters and pictures clipped from magazines. Or maybe they’re bare, because that’s the way you think walls should be. Whatever it looks like, your room is a place to call your own. Even when it is shared with a brother or sister, it is a place apart from rest of the world. A place to retreat, take time to read a book, listen to music or just stretch out and think. We asked Orange County teens to tell us about their bedrooms and to let us take a peek. These are three of our favorites.
“Though appearing to be quite ordinary in the day, my room transforms completely at the fall of night.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Dec. 30, 1993 For the Record
Los Angeles Times Thursday December 30, 1993 Orange County Edition View Part E Page 4 Column 1 View Desk 1 inches; 23 words Type of Material: Correction
Teen bedrooms--In last week’s page about teen bedrooms, the wrong name was attached to the following description and photo. This is how it should have appeared:
PHOTO: “My room represents all that is important to me in my life. The colors are red, white and blue. Pictures, posters and mementos of school, friends, activities and travel are on the ceiling, walls and shelves. My interests in football and music are strongly represented. I lived in Australia for two months, so my room is a mixture of American and Aussie patriotism, with both flags proudly displayed.”-- JULIE Harden, 17, senior, Los Alamitos High School
“The lights are switched off and the walls seem to melt away, revealing over 500 glowing stars, planets and comets where furniture, walls and the ceiling once stood.
“This realm of celestial formations reminds me of man’s insignificance within something so immense, and yet his great importance to be part of something so awesome and beautiful.
Betsy Prince, 17, senior, San Clemente High School “My mother tends to describe my room as cluttered. I’d rather think of it as eclectic. I have always had complete control of what goes into my room, and because of this, everything relating to my varied interests is on display. When people walk into my room, I want to take them on a journey into my life. It is for this reason that I’ve come to think of my room as an extension of myself.”
Jennifer Klein, 17, senior, Huntington Beach High “My room represents all that is important to me in my life. The colors are red, white and blue. Pictures, posters and mementos of school, friends, activities and travel are on the ceiling, walls and shelves. My interests in football and music are strongly represented. I lived in Australia for two months, so my room is a mixture of American and Aussie patriotism, with both flags proudly displayed.”
Harden, 17, senior, Los Alamitos High School