Julie Kalua:  

Life After I graduated from Rio Lindo Academy in 1993, I went to PUC for my freshman year, 1993-1994. I just took the general education courses that year, and spent some of my extra time being involved in the dramatic arts society. I played in, "The Importance of being Ernest" and a musical "Showboat". After my freshman year, I was going to go back for my sophomore year, but decided to go on a long road trip with my cousin Bobby Kalua and good friend Nicky Ortiz. I went through this whole spiritual "Adventist" revelation thing, and thought that "finding God" was all I really needed. After I came back from that trip in January 1995 I found myself floundering and feeling disillusioned by what I thought I had learned about God and life and I began to discover that Adventism and Reality don't mix very well. I then decided that since I could not seem to be spiritual on my own power that I would go to school some where that required me to be spiritual, so I packed up and went to Weimar College for my sophomore year. That lasted until spring of 1996. I discovered that an environment doesn't equal a spiritual life, and I was tired of all the pressure of being Weimar perfect and "working my way to heaven". I then moved back to Angwin with my parents, and fell in Love with my husband. I Married Ray Manuel on September 14, 1997, and gave birth to my first Son in January 2000. My second son was born July 2002. Kendall is now 5 and Cory is almost 3. Finally after 10 years of really not knowing what I wanted to do with myself career wise, I discovered that I really liked photography, but didn’t realize that’s what I should have been doing all along. I went back PUC in 2002 when my youngest was 3 mont...Expand for more