Three years ago, our neighbors’ daughter, Katelin Lindgard, had just graduated from Kaaawa Elementary School and entered the 7th grade at Kahuku High & Intermediate School. We saw her a lot as she practiced her basketball skills between our two houses using a hoop mounted on the utility pole at the top of our driveway.
She came over to borrow some photos for her 7th grade science fair project, an environmental study of “Waves v. Tides”.
How things have changed. She would be attending classes as a sophomore at Kahuku this year, except for one thing. She’s traveling.
Here’s what happened. She took a modeling class. Then early this year, she participated in iPOP!, the International Presentation of Performers, an event in Los Angeles where modeling and acting schools send their top students to strut their stuff hoping to be “discovered” by agents. 
Long story short: She was named “Ms. iPop!” and signed for a photo shoot in New York. 
We heard about all this as we talked with her mom in a neighborly chit-chat out on the dead-end of the road between our houses. Yeah, right, I thought, another modeling school hype. We’ll see.
Shows how much I know about such things.
In a flurry of activity, Katelin has taken off as Keke Lindgard, one of the hot new names on the international modeling scene, flying off to New York, Milan, and Paris to appear on behalf of top names like Guchi, Prada, and Tommy Hilfiger.