11th Grade Recap

As I'm nearing the end of my junior year of high school, I thought it was about time to do a recap of my year.

School

The biggest change this year that I started Running Start, and I've been taking college classes all year in addition to school at home. Here are the classes I took this year:

• Early Modern History - At home all year
• Geometry - At home all year
• College Study Skills (ENGL 170) - Fall 2014
• Yoga (PE 107) - Fall 2014
• English Comp I (ENGL 101) - Winter 2015
• General Psychology (PSYC 100) - Winter 2015
• Intro to Geology (GEOL 101) - Spring 2015
• Engligh Comp II (ENGL 102) - Spring 2015

I have a week left of spring quarter, but it looks like I'll finish my first year at the college with a 4.0 GPA!

School at home as been a struggle, and I am depressingly far behind. I will have to work for the summer to finish both history and math. Next year, I will taking a full load at the college and doing nothing at home.

Other Activities

I have really loved being at the college. I have made friends (though admittedly not that many), and I love being part of the community there. 

Outside of school, this has been a strange year. With some of my friends being gone at college other places, the year started out strangely, and through many strange and complicated events, the trend continued. 

It's been a hard year but that I've learned a lot about myself and how to handle challenging situations. I've learned a lot about dealing with and helping other people, and while there are numerous things about this year that I wish I could just reverse and have never had happen, I am a different person because of it, and I don't think that that's a bad thing.

I've made friends and had relationships evolve and change, and overall I think the year is ending on a positive note.

Outside of that, I've been teaching Latin, taking Irish dance and Ballet classes, and I was in two dance productions. I performed ballet in Dracula, and Irish dancing in the Nutcracker. I also danced in about four other smaller Irish performances this winter and spring. It's been quite a year! College planning has taken up time too, and we visited a number of colleges, mostly over spring break. I've been volunteering at the library as well, and have gone to a few annual events like the Children's Literature Conference at WWU, and the Bellingham Anime Convention at WCC (where I worked as a volunteer).

Next Year 

Next year is exciting and terrifying to think about. I'll be at the college full time, and I also will have college applications to work through. I also would really, really like to dance in the winter and spring performances at my dance studio if I am able. I have applied for a job working in the Writing Center at WCC, and I am hoping that that will be something I'll be doing come fall. I'd like to keep teaching Latin, and also taking Irish dance and ballet classes.

This is sounding exhausting already!

11th Grade Goals

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With a new school year soon beginning, I think it's time to make some goals for how I want the year to look. This year is bringing a lot of changes, both in my personal life, and in my social group that are going to make things pretty different. Several friends of mine are leaving for college (or have already left), and while that doesn't really change how I do things, it changes my experiences. I'm now doing Running Start as well, which is completely changing my school structure, and I'm doing a lot more dancing that I've ever done in the past.

Goals:

1. Be as healthy as possible, both physically and mentally. While this isn't entirely under my control, I do want to do whatever I can to stay healthy, whether that's making sure I eat well and exercise, or in some cases taking medication and going to the doctor to figure out that some of my problems are. Last year, I was sick nearly all year, and I would really rather that not happen again.

2. Accept that I'm not always in control. This goes with #1. Sometimes, I just can't do as much work as I would like, because of illness, or just life circumstances. While I can make an effort to deal with my anxiety, a lot of that is just accepting that I can't always change things. My goal is to learn to go with the flow.

3. Finish the Latin book I'm on. One thing I'm really sad about is that I probably won't be able to keep doing Latin. But, I am 3/4 of the way through the book I'm working on, and I really want to finish it, even if it takes me all year.

4. Manage my time better. I have a lot of different things going this year: dance, college classes, school at home, volunteering, blogging, reading (I have some exciting things on that front to talk about soon), and more. I have never been particularly good at managing all the things I have to do on a daily basis, but to keep up with all these different things, I'm going to need to get better at it.

5. Start thinking about college. I have a year left until I need to start applying to colleges, and that means that it's time to start thinking a little more seriously about where I might want to go, what is important to me in a college, and what schools I want to visit and eventually apply to.


These are some of my goals for my junior year of high school. I will try to check in every few months, and talk a little about what I've been doing to help achieve these goals, and how it's going.