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I've reflected on the past year, after quite the hiatus from livejournal, and all I can say is I'm blessed. So many good things happened this year, the best memories of my life. A few sucky or outright terrible things happened along the way... some showed me life isn't perfect and keep me fighting, others were lessons and disguised blessings. In this year, I had my greatest joy and also my greatest loss of faith (besides September 11). I had to get myself so wrapped up and harshly thrust out of my comfort zone to understand how much I had lost the happiness in myself. Losing that safety net and joining band, I actually became more myself, and people have told me I'm so much more relaxed and peaceful and fun-loving. My goals for next year are to love unabashedly without settling, to put my physical health in priority, to find a method of destressing that prevents my latent stress from showing up physically, to push myself in school without taking myself too seriously, and to continue to be myself.
I'm up for the challenge.
January
Volleyball camp
Mike’s mom passed away.
Recovering from college apps?
February
Science Olympiad
I stabbed myself with a pencil.
I got into Williams.
Volleyball camp
March
Jazz Co
NFTE Trip
Best Birthday Ever =) the quest to Federicis
License
School play
Invisalign braces
Started working at Lake Isle
UVA Trip
Acceptances roll in… Harvard, anyone?
1
April
Half of the month spent on college trips: 2500 miles of decisions
End of the month: I decide Harvard. Well, rather, I don’t decide Georgetown.
Volleyball camp
5
May
Volleyball camp
APs
Illness
Prom
June
WISE internship
Graduation
July
Lake Isle… and a lot of time off.
Shopping galore for college
August
Lake Isle
Getting my Gold Award
FUP begins on the 31st.
September
FUP
Move in
Freshman week
Band love…
make ups and break ups
2
October
Illness
In repair
Papers
Football!
A great trip home
November
Frosh band cuts
Weisse-ness
yAleeeeee
Midterm for Gov
Thanksgiving
4
December
Christmas parties, decorating
Flies
Papers galore
Vortex takeover
Epic weekend: Band Christmas Party, Pennypacker 3 meets Boston
3
I'm up for the challenge.
January
Volleyball camp
Mike’s mom passed away.
Recovering from college apps?
February
Science Olympiad
I stabbed myself with a pencil.
I got into Williams.
Volleyball camp
March
Jazz Co
NFTE Trip
Best Birthday Ever =) the quest to Federicis
License
School play
Invisalign braces
Started working at Lake Isle
UVA Trip
Acceptances roll in… Harvard, anyone?
1
April
Half of the month spent on college trips: 2500 miles of decisions
End of the month: I decide Harvard. Well, rather, I don’t decide Georgetown.
Volleyball camp
5
May
Volleyball camp
APs
Illness
Prom
June
WISE internship
Graduation
July
Lake Isle… and a lot of time off.
Shopping galore for college
August
Lake Isle
Getting my Gold Award
FUP begins on the 31st.
September
FUP
Move in
Freshman week
Band love…
make ups and break ups
2
October
Illness
In repair
Papers
Football!
A great trip home
November
Frosh band cuts
Weisse-ness
yAleeeeee
Midterm for Gov
Thanksgiving
4
December
Christmas parties, decorating
Flies
Papers galore
Vortex takeover
Epic weekend: Band Christmas Party, Pennypacker 3 meets Boston
3