Danji Buck-Moore

“Specialization is for Insects” (-R. Heinlein, quoted regularly by Esteemed Director (ED) Phil)

• Age: 18
• Home town: Rockland-City
• Prior schools: Waldorf School in Lexington, Ashwood Waldorf School, Mallinckrodt Gymnasium Dortmund.
• Interests: Music, Ultimate Frisbee, Politics (or MUFP), among others.
• After graduation: Down to the fatherland of Costa Rica for a year of Spanish, volunteer work, and free healthcare. Then back to somewhere to study music and international relations, most likely.
• What I like about Watershed: Go to school, understand your school, find room for improvement, and then improve it. At Watershed we draw from such amazing people and resources around the building, Rockland, the Midcoast, and beyond – not just a small full-time faculty. Plus, it was largely formed in my kitchen. Faculty and your friends, companions, role models, and partners in learning. There is so much more than four years of exciting material to cover at Watershed. The potential is truly incredible.
• Favorite courses: US History 1950-Present, Spanish, Math, Chemistry, Dance, Literature of the Sea, Ceramics, Cosmology. In the past: T’ai Chi, Film, Ethics, Western Civilizations, Physics, Observation, Music Composition and Performance, Studio Art, Photography. Continuously: The Ultimate Field, the political climate, performance, trips, lengthy dinner conversations, lunchtime philosophizing, canoe trips, and All School Meeting (ASM).
• Instruments: Should I? I rarely divulge a working list. Mainly piano and keyboards. Also guitar, bass (electric and upright), ukulele, vocals, viola, noseflute,drums, percussion, harmonica, vibraphone, recorder, electronics and such, etc. Working on trumpet, throat-singing, ocarina, fife, etc. Composing too. How boring and pretentious of me to ramble at such length. Apologies.
• Shoe size: This closely guarded secret unfortunately cannot be divulged here. 11-12.
• Ukulele: Fo’ Shizzle! I love a Ukulele. I love to strum it gaily. I like to hum while I strum, Hmm - mmm.
• Unique opportunities experienced through Watershed: Making an electric Ukulele, making a Boat, making a Stickbass, spending a year in Germany, composing big piece of music, organizing public coffeehouses, looking at stars, traveling in canoe, on foot, by unicycle, meeting amazing and inspirational people, they are your friends and teachers, this is impossible to write about. The possibilities are endless – four years and I am itching for more, jealous of the new opportunities, and extremely happy to have found this place.
• Great Watershed moments: Is there ever an un-great Watershed moment? Not so but far otherwise! “Like she has a brain!” The weird wetness. Pete as Obi-wan Kenobi, and purple. The infamous Neddish. 6-am Mosquito-filled rainy morning wake-up call via noseflute and harmonica.
• Has Vinnie ever smushed a grape into your ear: Surprisingly yes, today: slimy and unpleasant.
• Tremuloides membership: And how! Populus! Tremuloides!

Lilly Whitehead

The only thing that stays the same is that everything changes.

• Age: 19
• Home town: Waldo, ME.
• Interests: Knitting, Sewing, Camping, Ultimate Frisbee, Biking.
• After graduation: Audubon Expedition Institute (Affiliated with Lesley College).
• What I like about Watershed: The individuality of each student's education that will be tailor-made to work for them.
• Favorite courses: Biology, Ceramics, Latin Dance.
• Shoe size: 8.
• Ukulele: no.
• Unique opportunities experienced through Watershed: Writing a play, Identifying trees, going to Utah, experiencing winter carnival in Quebec, carving ice sculptures.
• Great Watershed moments: getting to the top of a mountain, starting a canoe trip in the rain, eating countless meals together.
• As a student who has been here from the very begining of the school,I have to say that each year is a new adventure. The comings and goings of students directly affects the dynamics of the school. That is because the school is the students.
• Tremuloides membership: yes.

Berit Hannappel

• age: 19
• home town: Aachen, Germany
• prior schools: Grundschule Simmerau St.-Michael-Gymnasium Monschau
• interests: music, traveling, books, little cafés
• after graduation: volunteer work in Guatemala, find a university after having decided what to study
• what I like about Watershed: There is nothing that I don’t like about Watershed. Answering this question would take up too much room.
• favourite courses: ethics, photography, music composition
• instruments: guitar. Also I pretend to play the bass and the ukulele.
• shoe size: 39 (I don’t know what that means in America..6?7?)
• ukulele: no
• unique opportunities experienced through Watershed: Recording a CD with Scout, Danji and Lizzy. Meeting many people at one spot who are all able to play hacky sack. Going on a canoe trip. Visiting many wonderful places (including Québec, New York, Boston,..). Hugging my teachers. Taking a T’ai Chi class. Missing school on a vacation day.
• great Watershed moments: Phil singing the Watershed blues at the coffeehouse. Scout with spinach stuck in her teeth. Chang Sun’s “I love”. Studio Art class with Nancy at the ocean. Singing to Pink Floyd’s “Dark side of the moon” in the dark room with Dee. Definetely the farting contest in Québec.
• Tremuloides membership: shamefully, no.