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Wow, I realize its been a while since I've posted on this blog. I guess I kind of forgot about it. I guess now would be a good time to update...
Well, let's start off with school. I am now a high school graduate of the year 2013. Senior year was a fun year for me, I'd have to say. Although my friends all departed to hair school, leaving me for the whole year, and with no friends for about half the year, I found some new friends. I felt some spiritual/personal growth within the past year and looking back now, I'm actually proud of what I accomplished, which is a big thing for me because I'm usually never proud of the things I've done. It hit me senior year though as I received my cap and gown, sent out graduation announcements, and attended all those senior end of the year activities. I just thought about all that I've been through all these years of my life. Everything leading up to this point had become a part of me. I wasn't even 20 yet and I accomplished so many things. I took plenty honors classes in high school, never got lower than a C- in final report cards, I took an AP Euro class, I decided to move to Utah and I finally could, I made new friends, I completed two years of seminary makeup work, I got a scholarship, I got all A's on my last report card, I asked a boy to a dance, I got involved in service activities...Gosh. The list is endless. Really, what I did was think about everything I accomplished after I moved to Utah. Like that whole new experience for me junior and senior year, making those new friends and just feeling new and refreshed, and hopeful, and like I belonged. The memories of moving here and that whole experience blending in my mind was so powerful I literally had a breakdown and started crying because now it was all coming to an end. High school was literally over and throughout all the painful memories, were spectacular ones! I think taking seminary was one of the best life experiences for me. I would tell anyone, whether you are a member of the church or not, to take seminary in high school. It is one of the best learning experiences. Some of the stuff, I'll admit, was boring, but there would be one or two things said that will linger in your mind and emotionally change you. So in a nutshell, senior year was a blast and it made me realize how much I've grown over the past two years.
Its now summer and I've been working at Del Taco to save up for college. Yes, its a fast food place, but its pretty fast paced and it's a good start for my first job. I've improved my communication skills A TON speaking to other people everyday and whatnot. You get that occasional costumer who complains, the one who is always grateful, and then there are the creeps that hit on you. Here's some advice: don't ever like a guy that hits on a girl while she's working in fast food. There are so many other places you can pick up girls, just sayin'. Anyways, yeah I'm going up to BYU-Idaho in the fall, and I'm super excited to start college. As I may have expressed, I've been waiting to go to college for a while now. The time could not come soon enough.
I still want to be a journalist, of course, but I also have this wild aspiration to help others. Haha interesting enough, I'm planning to serve a mission for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints. Along with that, I want to visit countries outside of the U.S and do more than exploring. I want to help the women in places like Uganda or Cambodia and to receive a better education. After reading this book called Half The Sky I became so interested in wanting to do something about that. There is so much that the United States doesn't know about what goes on outside but maybe we choose not to get involved because its not our problem. I think everybody is valuable and nobody is put on this Earth without a reason. I really want to change things and I don't know how I will do it, but I have a burning passion to fix this issue and I can promise you this fire is not going out anytime soon.
Wow, I realize its been a while since I've posted on this blog. I guess I kind of forgot about it. I guess now would be a good time to update...
Well, let's start off with school. I am now a high school graduate of the year 2013. Senior year was a fun year for me, I'd have to say. Although my friends all departed to hair school, leaving me for the whole year, and with no friends for about half the year, I found some new friends. I felt some spiritual/personal growth within the past year and looking back now, I'm actually proud of what I accomplished, which is a big thing for me because I'm usually never proud of the things I've done. It hit me senior year though as I received my cap and gown, sent out graduation announcements, and attended all those senior end of the year activities. I just thought about all that I've been through all these years of my life. Everything leading up to this point had become a part of me. I wasn't even 20 yet and I accomplished so many things. I took plenty honors classes in high school, never got lower than a C- in final report cards, I took an AP Euro class, I decided to move to Utah and I finally could, I made new friends, I completed two years of seminary makeup work, I got a scholarship, I got all A's on my last report card, I asked a boy to a dance, I got involved in service activities...Gosh. The list is endless. Really, what I did was think about everything I accomplished after I moved to Utah. Like that whole new experience for me junior and senior year, making those new friends and just feeling new and refreshed, and hopeful, and like I belonged. The memories of moving here and that whole experience blending in my mind was so powerful I literally had a breakdown and started crying because now it was all coming to an end. High school was literally over and throughout all the painful memories, were spectacular ones! I think taking seminary was one of the best life experiences for me. I would tell anyone, whether you are a member of the church or not, to take seminary in high school. It is one of the best learning experiences. Some of the stuff, I'll admit, was boring, but there would be one or two things said that will linger in your mind and emotionally change you. So in a nutshell, senior year was a blast and it made me realize how much I've grown over the past two years.
Its now summer and I've been working at Del Taco to save up for college. Yes, its a fast food place, but its pretty fast paced and it's a good start for my first job. I've improved my communication skills A TON speaking to other people everyday and whatnot. You get that occasional costumer who complains, the one who is always grateful, and then there are the creeps that hit on you. Here's some advice: don't ever like a guy that hits on a girl while she's working in fast food. There are so many other places you can pick up girls, just sayin'. Anyways, yeah I'm going up to BYU-Idaho in the fall, and I'm super excited to start college. As I may have expressed, I've been waiting to go to college for a while now. The time could not come soon enough.
I still want to be a journalist, of course, but I also have this wild aspiration to help others. Haha interesting enough, I'm planning to serve a mission for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints. Along with that, I want to visit countries outside of the U.S and do more than exploring. I want to help the women in places like Uganda or Cambodia and to receive a better education. After reading this book called Half The Sky I became so interested in wanting to do something about that. There is so much that the United States doesn't know about what goes on outside but maybe we choose not to get involved because its not our problem. I think everybody is valuable and nobody is put on this Earth without a reason. I really want to change things and I don't know how I will do it, but I have a burning passion to fix this issue and I can promise you this fire is not going out anytime soon.
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