Madison High School Class of 2005: CHRIS PERKINS

I'm glad Kellen said something. I've really enjoyed seeing the updates.

After high school, I:

Worked at Craigo's. Delivered pizzas. Regularly singed my hair while working at the oven. Went on a mission to Oklahoma City. Didn't see any tornadoes. Saw the most expensive ice storm in Oklahoma history. Studied geology at BYU-I. Drove around Burley for the summer. Measured agricultural wells. Studied chemistry at BYU-I. Sold pest control in Oklahoma City. Made a movie with Ricky, Jade, Kaylee, JR, and Jay Hildebrandt. Applied to Utah State University on a whim. Ran around BYU-I's campus with some friends and a soccer ball to secretly remove bolts from all the city parking signs. Removed 56 signs the next night. Hung two from the stadium. Broke my arm longboarding. Got suspended from BYU-I for sedition. Had already been accepted to Utah State. Paid the city $200. Organized a century bike ride to Mesa Falls for community service. Did some unlicensed remodeling at the Westwood "Romance" Theatre for more community service. Avoided all the exposed wiring. Stepped on a nail. Worked for JR's dad's foam insulation business. Rode LoToJa. Studied electrical engineering at Utah State. Got an internship in Salt Lake. Went to Canada. Went to Mexico. Worked at Utah State's Space Dynamics Lab. Went to Bruges and Cologne with the girl I should have married. Played club rugby. Graduated. Did hardware security research for a USU professor. Tried to sail across Bear Lake. Paddled the whole way because there was no wind. Flew to Russia. Saw Red Square. Taught English to Russian kids. Went to a Russian banya in the Ural Mountains. Dunked three times in freezing water in Revolutionary Square for Epiphany. Snorkeled in Iceland. Saw the Northern Lights and Jökulsárlón. Rode on a dogsled. Went to Riga. Biked in Tallinn. Rode a ferry to Helsinki. Went to St. Petersburg for Victory Day. Traveled with a student's family to Antalya, Turkey. Flew to London. Bought a bike for £60. Biked to Brighton and then Dover. Took a ferry to Dunkirk. Biked to Bruges, Ghent, then Brussels. Flew to Berlin for a concert. Visited some friends in Dortmund. Took a train to Cologne. Got hit by a car. Took a train to Strasbourg. Biked to Colmar and Neuchâtel. Camped on Lake Geneva. Biked to Geneva, Annecy, Chamonix, and over the Alps, often in the rain. Slept in a parking lot in St. Vincent. It was still raining. Biked to Torino, then Genova. Got some real pesto. Slept on a bench in an abandoned apartment building in La Spezia. Biked around Cinque Terra. Lost my tent while biking to Pisa. Went to Florence and Rome by train. Met my Italian speaking brother in Rome. Rode a ferry to Cagliari. Ate some horse. Had a lot of gelatto. Went to Napoli. Saw Pompeii. Had some real Napolitano pizza. Sold my bike to an Italian for €50. Flew home. Tried surfing. Bought a custom titanium Kelson bike and a car. Went to the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. Was offered a job as a refueling technician on a moored submarine in Charleston, South Carolina. Turned it down. Now I'm working in a warehouse in Salt Lake City.

That's pretty much everything that happened. I hope things are going well for everyone. I'll probably see you this summer."