When I saw @mipiano initiating the Three photos of you being a teenager challenge here I immediately thought of my Life Album. It's a Little Twin Star (my favorite Sanrio character) photo album. I have photos from me as a baby with my mum (that's the earliest photo I have of myself) to a young child, teenager, young adult, grown up adult, getting married. Then the album kind of stopped there as digital media became more prevalent and we didn't need actual copies of photos anymore. I think I should continue with my Life Album and get some recent year photos printed out. Another thing to add on my to do list.
Anyway, today's post is about my teenager years, so we're going to skip the first few pages of baby LUT and jump to teenage LUT. Before we do that, I just want to show you more Little Twin Star characters 😊, I mean the size of the album.
The school I went to was a brand new school when I started. The headmistress had returned from overseas, so her ideology was quite different from the traditional headmasters in Hong Kong. In particular, her views towards school uniform was pretty lax. We were allowed to wear trainers to school and pretty much any outerwear we liked as long as it was a dark colour. As to hemline length, no one really cared as long as you didn't over do it 😆. Everyone tried to look cooler than everyone else 😎
During those teenage years studying in Hong Kong I was living with my nan, and sometimes I would fly back to UK to visit my family. This photo was taken at the airport before one of those flights. I don't wear dresses much (still don't), but I remember I liked this dress a lot and often wore it. As to why I'm standing next to the wine liqueur counter? I have no idea.... maybe I'm trying to look grown up😄
A few years later I returned back to UK to continue school before going to university. I still had a lot of friends in Hong Kong, and in some summers (when my dad would pay for it) I would fly back to Hong Kong to meet with them. This was one of those trips. I remember on this occasion I met up with a bunch of secondary school friends. Even though I was only with them for a year, a big group of them turned up, but now I've lost in contact with all of them. There was a period I used to wear my hair short, it was a phase I was going through and a very 'in' thing during those years. Look cool and don't smile when people take photos of you 😊
This has been a nice travel through memory lane back to the teenage me. If you want to take up the challenge and have some fun, show us three photos of you being a teenager, and don't forget to post it in the Three Challenges Community https://peakd.com/c/hive-100848/created.
Thanks to @mipiano for keeping the community alive when I've dropped the ball.
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STOPI think I was pretty uncool in my teens. I was a stereotypical geek. The old photos may make me cringe.
Do people still have photo albums? We did when the kids were young, but then it all went digital.
some people still do. some because they like them, some because they learned that your phone dying means everything is gone (especially before all the cloud storage, but still internet data is not cheap and files are getting bigger :) )
I do ensure that all my photos are in the cloud too, so I would hope not to lose them. I pay Google for some extra storage. I could get copies on my PC too.
I still got my parents photo albums and another one when I was a kid.
Cringe is fun, come on, show us, it'll be a good laugh!!
Firm on what you think :) that was the attitude that time probably. You really looked cool then, a smile would have made that more lively.
Guess we've all been through that phase were we think smiling isn't cool 😎😄
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Cool challenge and very cool teenage LUT photos😆. I don't think that even three photos of my as teenager exist. Maybe a couple as a baby. Probably better that way - LOL
Babies are cute! But I thought most people be would have less baby photos than teenage ones. Maybe we should do a baby photos challenge by next time
I guess it depends on one's age. I grew up before smart phones and DSLRs, my dad still used rangefinder cameras and later SLRs when my brother and sisters grew up. There's a few photos but not many. Hmm, I thought I shared one of them before but I'm not sure.
Well, it looks like it turned out alright. You seem to have gone on to be a pretty cool grown-up so :)
Haha!! It could have been a lot worse 😂
Some Little Twin Stars are here by me, greeting that teenage LUT in the pretty relaxed style of a school uniform. 👋
In the second photo - you are standing by that liquor counter as you knew your future husband would be a fan of whiskey ;)
Cool to see your contribution, thank you, and I hope more people will participate in this topic! 📸
It's fun seeing the teenage us, very cringy in a few 😄
Thanks for initiating this
You know what, I think just about every young lady goes through that phase with their hair. My sister did. I know my wife did. I think her sister did as well. It's just a "thing" I guess!
I reckon teenagers are very easily influenced by what's 'in' during each phase, everyone wanted to be on trend
You were way cooler than I was as a teenager! I'll see what I can find...
Yeah!! That'd be really cool! Look forward to it
Hi! I have only been able to find one photo of me as a teenager that I have digitised so I'm sharing it here rather than making a whole post. I did have a look in the attic and I know there were loads in a shoebox somewhere but haven't been able to find it yet. If I ever find it maybe I'll do a post!
Anyway here is me as a teenager playing keyboards in the school band. I've blurred out the other people's faces as obviously I don't have much hope of contacting them all to get permission to publish it.
Great idea for a post!
@mipiano @ph1102 @pixiepost @caulderfreeman and @steevc may also be interested in this!
Hey hey, you look super elegant and serious in this photo, playing the keyboards. Well, I didn't post a photo of me playing, be here my post with some teenage years photos ;)
Here's one from my teens when I was doing classical guitar. I don't actually have many digitised from that time.
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Nice Steve! Very vintage looking!
I was an awkward teen with ugly glasses :)
Aww this was fun to see teenage you. I hope there is a challenge to see baby you too. I have been digitizing all my pictures and organizing them. I should show you teenage Sara, she had short hair too!
I knew it!! All the cool teenagers had short hair! Would love to see the teenage Sara.
Definitely a look back at the past for many of us. Not just girls had hair phases I had a perm believe it or not. BTW I said I would do this challenge and this weekend I go back home to visit my mother. I don't know if a "perm pic" will make the cut or even be found.
I went through a perm phase as well, yours should definitely be shared, the good old perm days!
Haha I remember carrying a pick in my back pocket.
Nice photos. Ah, teenagers. When looking bored and too cool to be in a photo was everything.
I don't think I have any photos of me when I was a teen. I'll have to look and see what I can find.
That would be so fun! Actually I can't remember if I've ever seen a photo of the grown up David 🤔
Oh, you look just as pretty every time!
I really like the one with the short hair and the outfit.
Awhhh! You're so sweet @nanixxx. I liked that white top as well, very psychedelic
😄 psychedelic?
I think you look like a ninja! 😂 I'm just kidding.
Has anyone tried to copy/paste this post and pass it off as their own yet? That scam seems to have died down for you, or have I just been out of the loop again?
Anywhoodle, it's clear your youth was far different from mine. . . different to mine? That's the UK preference, right? I don't have a lot of pictures, and while my family moved from the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest in the US, the culture shock was not international. We kids were also homeschooled, so not a lot of the same school change shock most might experience in a move.
I've made sure all the posts from their farm are downvoted, looks like it's just the occasional ones now, it's less and less but they're still on my shit list. Thanks so much for asking.
Homeschooling must have been quite a different experience, but then if that's what you always did, I guess you don't have anything to compare. Did you go to college afterwards, what was that like?
I did attend public school briefly, but there wasn't the lack of social activity people assume. Church, homeschool group events, co-op classes, and so forth played a role. We even went skiing several times most winters with a group discount. If anything, homeschooling meant a more diverse age and cultural mix than the typical grade-segregated fixed-schedule school system.
I scored well on the SAT and ACT exams. No academic loss from unconventional education!
I also went to the local community college instead of just taking senior year classes at home. My entrance exam score earned me credit for English 101 and 102, and theoretically could have sent me straight to calculus, but I chose pre-calc to ensure I hadn't missed any trig or algebra concepts by skipping 12th grade math.
I think the homeschooling experience prepared me better for the more self-directed nature of college and independent lifelong learning.
Little Twin Stars is my second-favorite, just behind HELLO,KITTY 😁
Sweet pics of you as a teenager! 💖
I saw this challenge but have hardly any teen photos. We moved when I was in my last year at school, and some of my albums got lost.
I had a chuckle at that. We had skirts and used to roll them up at the waist so we ended up with mini-skirts. Of course not when at school, and at home😅
A very cool LUT in that last image especially <3
P.S. Do you know if @mipiano is ok, have not seen her.
Thank you dear @lizelle for your concern, don't worry, I am ok 🤗 Well, very tired physically as we are in the middle of moving, and not just from one street to another 😅 so it takes literally all my energy and time, combined with my regular busy schedule at work. It is also a bit frustrating and traumatic not to be around Hive as I used to be, so it is better to try to have some peace of mind right now and come back when possible. I do miss our platform though. ;) Thank you for not forgetting about me, Elegant Parasol Lady 😉
Awe, that's hectic @mipiano, just don't go lifting any heavy stuff!
Thinking of you, just try and mentally transport yourself to two months into the future when you're all settled in your new home.
Take care and look forward to seeing you around🧡
I already did 😩 and still heavy stuff to go... hmmm, like a piano hahaha 😂 ok, but a digital one so it doesn't weigh that much as a grand piano 😜
Thank you, take care you too, maybe I will be back sooner than we think 🤓
I had an ancient piano, one with candelabra, it weighed a ton! It needed much repair work, and when I started minimizing, I gave it to my neighbour, he knew someone who could repair it.
Careful of your back @mipiano😘