by Kylie Webb
Center Editor 
   “I remember one time we visited, our family went to the Kreuger National Park and we were driving down the road when my grandpa accidently honked the horn, and a full-sized elephant started chasing us down the little road. It was probably the scariest moment of my childhood.” Not many other LGHS can say they have experienced anything like this in their past, but senior Delaine DeBeer, who was born in Pretoria, South Africa, can.
 
  Although she cannot remember much from the first two years of living there, DeBeer has visited four times since and loves the tropical area and big waves. She says that the scenery, “basically looks like it's straight out of a national geographic magazine, and the bugs are two or three times the size of the bugs here, but no one is freaked out by them.” One observation DeBeer made during her multiple visits to South Africa was the general down-to-Earth and warm-hearted attitude of the people, which are both qualities quite reflective of her.
 

   One thing DeBeer is well known for is her already advanced talent involving filmmaking. DeBeer has been greatly interested in film making ever since she and fellow LGHS students, senior Lynsey Harrell and junior Lauren Harrell, decided to make a home movie for fun. Since “it was so much fun, [they] just kept making them for years.” This was merely a small hobby for DeBeer until the summers prior to and following her freshman year, when she attended the digital media academy at Stanford and began getting more serious about filmmaking. At the academy, “they taught [them] how to use Final Cut Pro, a video editing software, during the first summer, but the next summer [they] filmed and edited [their] own sports video with skateboarding and biking, and [she] received a scholarship for [her] sports video.” DeBeer is hopeful of attending Chapman University and majoring in film production, although she has not yet decided which particular aspect of filmmaking she will pursue. DeBeer further explains that, “[her] dream is to someday live and work in Los Angeles, and to make a difference in the film industry.” 

  When asked if she were an animal, which she would be, DeBeer says, “[she] would be a giraffe because [she is] tall and clumsy, but also gentle and kind.” However, as many fellow players would agree, clumsy does not describe her ability in another of her passions, playing lacrosse. DeBeer plays a second home, which is a forward, and also her favorite position of the game. She was a key player on the LGHS lacrosse team last year, and plans to play in the upcoming season as well. The words of wisdom that DeBeer lives by are “if you want to be happy, be.” She explains, “sometimes all it takes to be happy is to just be happy…and just live in the moment.” Both her kind disposition and relaxed attitude make DeBeer a friend to many students at LGHS.