The End of 2008

2008 is been an insane year for me. It started out bright, with me being excited about what the year would bring. The feeling lasted about a month, then my life started spiraling downhill out of control. That was a time when I didn’t yet have my blog, and quite frankly, I don’t want to get back into details. However, time went on. The world kept going. And I moved on. I grew up.

At the beginning of 2008, I made the resolution to completely fill a journal in one year. I previously had journals where I would write for a week then completely forget about it. Guess what? I actually kept my resolution.

In January, I made the decision to apply to college one year early. This was made possible due to the fact I spent that semester being homeschooled, and had the SAT scores to go onto college. I spent hours pouring over websites and deciding where to apply; this was made a bit difficult as some application due dates were January 1st. However, I decided to apply to four: St. Lawrence University, Allegheny College, Florida Atlantic University, and the University of Kansas. When April rolled around, I received my acceptance letters from all four colleges in the mail. St. Lawrence gave me a $30K scholarship, Allegheny a $40K, but I turned down them both (and FAU) for KU. I finally realized that I had spent basically my entire life waiting to leave Kansas without giving any of it a chance. Plus, I couldn’t stand the thought of leaving my friends and my home behind.

I met two of my best friends in 2008. Hillary and I skated together, and discovered one night in February at the ice rink that we had the same taste in music. Our friendship has grown, and now we share all of our embarrassing moments with each other. I’ve sorta known Tori for awhile, but we actually started talking in June. We’re basically twins. Almost.

In May, I started this blog!! Tori and Mary convinced me to begin blogging, and it’s been such a wonderful experience so far. The blogging world is amazing!! I keep trying to get my friends and family into it, but they have yet to be as enthralled as I.

I visited many places this past year. Washington DC, South Carolina, Colorado, Maine, New Mexico, Ireland. Plus all the small trips to St. Joe, Tulsa, St. Louis. I’m really lucky that my parents can afford to travel, and that they really enjoy doing it. I get to experience so many different places, and I’m very grateful!

College was also brand new this year. So far, I’ve nearly gotten hit by numerous bikes and buses, walked three blocks with my dress up in my underwear, run towards a bus only to have it leave me standing exasperated and embarrassed, gotten three unfair parking tickets, challenged those three unfair parking tickets and had them removed from my account, aced tests, failed a test, written a few ‘A’ papers, met new people, tripped going up and down stairs in front of people, and still have the ability to laugh at myself.

It’ll be interesting to see what 2009 will bring!

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