2 WEEKS NOTICE!

BHS Class of 2018

Wednesday, August 2nd 2017. It's official. We have 2 weeks before our last first day of high school. We have been counting down the hours, minutes, and seconds to encounter the upcoming moment. The beginning of a end.

I know the night before for the first day I will be texting and snap chatting all my friends. I'll be asking them "How they're feeling? What are they going to wear? Are we ready to wing it on how we're going to intimidate the freshies and underclassmen? and Are we ready for our parents huge sob show, as if they were watching the ending of Marley & Me for the first time, as we drive to a bunch of boring bricks stuck together to keep us enclosed for the last first day?"

I for one, am excited, nervous, and sad to start my 12th year of school. Once these 268 days of school (270 if you're counting until graduation) are all over we leave behind the people we love, the people we hate, and the people we don't even know. But none the less we leave behind everything we know and have become accustomed to.

Being nostalgic and personal here, I am going to reminisce briefly on my moments that have led up to this moment, but of course you can jog through your own memory lane to remind you how you got here.

Elementary school was a mess for me. I went through so many emotional damages and self-discoveries. I had no true friends and I kept trying to fit in all while also trying to be myself which was a bit of a personal world war as you can imagine. But it taught me to start caring more for myself a bit more.

Middle school I was lost. I was slowly finding friends after coming from a private school class of 10 to a class of almost 164. I also kind of like to forget middle school because I looked like a toad... Hated my pubescent acne and chub rolls. I learned a lot about myself during those 3 years but little did I know that I still hadn't learned enough.

Now onto my first 3 years of high school. Wow have I changed. I had a MAJOR glow up, also stopped caring about what other people thought but still slightly caring because it pushed me to prove them wrong. I have accomplished so many things I NEVER thought I was going to be able to do because I was so shy and such an introvert when I was younger. Little did I know that I was my own worse enemy, something I'm still coming to terms with. I've learned so much about myself and who I want to be...even though I still haven't learned what I want to be or where I want to go, but that's for another blog.

I have started this blog as a personal senior project. I want to see how much I will change, how much everyone and everything around me will change, keep track of my emotions and stress levels, and just keeping track of all the little things in life that I will want to remember. Each Sunday until graduation I will post a blog, a report of all the emotions, achievements, and obstacles I and other classmates have encountered that week. I notice a lot more than people think. I will also be posting survival hacks to making senior year successful for future classes. I hope people will use my blog as a way to learn from one another and be kind as well as just remembering you're roots and where you came from because after these 270 days are over, we are off to fight bigger and badder (don't judge my grammar) battles. 

I am excited to see where this year takes me and the rest of the BHS Class of '18. This is our year to make a difference and to make each moment count. Let's rock the House of Orange. (I'm horrible at puns...)

Angela