The Send Off

   This year has been a year of change and growth for me. I always pictured my junior year as a mid-point, a bit of middle ground in my high school experience. Not the stepping stone it has turned out to be. So many new things I have opened myself to this year, and so many things I have had to leave behind. All the while this class a firm foundation through out the year, as a constant challenge always keeping me on my toes. So many times I have looked at this class and its assignments and thought to myself, "there is no possible way.", yet like all my other challenges, the people I can count on stood firm a cove sheltering me to the waves of doubt and worries.

   Freshman and sophomore year, I stayed anonymous not really joining in with clubs or school spirit. The first football and basket ball games I went to were this year. This is the year I learned to read music, now I'm involved in Lassies and Band. I have tutored two different classes, and was able to see teaching in a different perspective. Along with all the things I have learned this year, I have learned things that have impacted me negatively. I have learned that in all honestly no one is perfect, (I am still having trouble not holding myself to ridiculous standards), and that you cant please everyone.

 "I hope she'll be a fool--that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool... You see, I think everything's terrible anyhow... And I know. I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 1

   One of my favorite quotes from this year is from The Great Gatsby, when Daisy is talking to Nick. It explains how ignorance truly is bliss. I find myself at times more hardened to others than I was in the past. It is hard to look at myself and who I was, and who I'm growing to be. I.m a creature of habit, and this year holds so much change.