#locker locks

Queensmount Traditions

As a bus driver, I get to drive around the whole city, I see how much Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge has changed, as well as how much of it has stayed the same. 

One thing I noticed while working, is tradition. 

Growing up I attended two elementary schools in Kitchener. The first was A.R. Kaufman Public School (now called Hillside Public School) from Kindergarten to grade six. Then, in 1997 my family moved, and I attended Queensmount Senior Public School for grades 7 and 8.

When graduating and leaving this school, there was something you had to do before you finally embarked onto the scary road of high school. You left your locker lock on the fence. Yes, I know it seems simple, but as you can see, as I was driving the bus I noticed that there were new shiny locks on the property fence, along with some very old and rusty ones, and one of them was mine. Which just tells me that this simple, cute tradition, after all this years, was still being upheld at this school. 

I find it interesting that us humans always find a way to leave our mark to in this world. From cave drawings, statues, paintings, old buildings to photographs and videos, we let future generations know that we were here once, that we lived. 

So I guess, this was my way of saying “Alicia was here.”