Who I Am

Trevor Sullivan: n DEF: 1. “Big village”.  2. Prudent: wise or judicious in practical affairs.  3. A good friend.  4. Hard worker.  5. A lover of nature.

I know, I know, the first two definitions don’t sound like me.  That’s because they are from Wikipedia.com.  Those two are the formal meaning of the word Trevor.  The last three are the ones that I feel describe who I am.

I have been in Aurora for my entire life.  I enjoy the small town atmosphere and the friendly greetings I get on a daily basis from the many people I know.  I am a senior from Aurora High School.  I am a student who enjoys getting good grades and doing well, but I am also a student who likes to be relaxed and have fun while studying.  The most important part of school to me is the interaction I get the opportunity to have with my friends in class, the halls, and at lunch.

I enjoy spending time with my family.  My mom and dad have always been there to help me through the various parts of life.  They are a wealth of knowledge and they at least pretend to know what they are talking about when they help me out.  Jared and Kyle are a different story.  Jared is two years younger than me and has always been my wing man.  Our childhood has been full of fighting.  When I say fighting, I mean battling.  We tend to get on each other's nerves until one of us hits the other.  This fights quickly escalated until we picked up the nearest stick shaped objects and went at it.  But do you know what, we are best friends now.  I think we needed to fight it out as kids to become the friends we are today.  Kyle is a whole different story.  Being nine years older than he is, I have always been a role model and a friend.  Every time we wrestle, I end up winning.  He says it is because I “weigh a ton” but really it is just because of my mad wrestling skill.  He is really entertaining and I enjoy having fun with him and taking him on random trips to go catch frogs at the lake or go get ice cream cones after school.

I am a lover of nature.  I enjoy spending time outside just hanging out and relaxing.  I am an avid fisherman and hunter.  I enjoy hunting pheasants and turtle doves with my friends after school (when they invite me!  Nate Bell!) and with my dad and brothers on Sunday afternoons.  I like to hunt deer in the fall because the weather is so beautiful and you get to spend hours out in the fresh air, really appreciating nature.  I like to hunt small game too, like squirrels and rabbits.  Jared, Kyle, and I have many stories about different times that we walked around fields shooting game and having a grand old time.  I am also a fisherman, though not as much as my brothers.  Typically I drive them to a lake and then get shown up for the first thirty minutes before I resort to asking Kyle for some advice.  After he helps me, I have some success but soon fall back to the same misfortune that I had earlier.  It is kind of sad that the eight year old is showing me up but I guess I take it for what it is worth.

I am a hard worker too.  I enjoy working hard to get projects done.  This past year, I converted our old garden shed into a chicken coop.  I built all of the boxes out of old pallets we had laying around.  I was the main one that wanted to get chickens so I thought it was necessary to build it by myself.  Another thing that I am still in the process of working on is my barn.  We call it the “party barn” because it was built to be half storage, half recreation.  My Dad, Uncle Jeff, and I are the main ones building it.  I am starting to think that it would be easier just to hire someone out to finish it up, but we are well over half way and I feel like I should be the one to help get it done.  

This summer, I showed I was a hard worker because I spent most of the summer taking down barbed wire fence and putting up new for Dave and Adena Kreutz.  Jared and I put in a lot of hours but when we were done, I felt a strong sense of accomplishment.

This is who I am.  These are the things that will always be with me.  I appreciate the opportunities that I have been given so far in life and I look forward to developing who I am.