My Traditional New Year's Entry

This is my summary of 2008. :)

- bought my grad dress
- wrote my first departmentals for gr 12, term 1
- heather and brianne and I hung out together all the time and became really close friends
- a very fun Blue Mountain retreat
- basketball season with an intense coach.
- grad plans not exactly going smoothly, but getting underway just the same
- another family rough patch
- fell into a school and life slump during the second term of grade 12, feeling hopeless and like it was too much work to care
- got 1.5 hours of sleep before getting up and seeing the grade 11’s off to Bolivia
- Maui! So fun!!
- An amazing and very respected teacher had to leave SCS
- started tanning in preparation for grad
- GRAD! ceremony, pictures, and parties! (in May) and then my last days of high school and high school exams in June
- got my laptop
- got certified in CPR C and first aid
- worked over the summer as a paddling pool attendant with the city and at DQ
- Stephen Harper makes a national apology to the aboriginals and I got to witness it
- Turned 18!
- Had our after grad party at the Schmidt’s cabin and said official good-byes to our class
- Karen and Mike come home for at least the near future
- watched Gilmore Girls seasons 1-7. all of it. and then started it over again 5 days later. it is now my life.
- Brianne and I got to go to Carly’s lake over the summer. Good times.
- was promoted to supervisor at DQ
- went to visit Briercrest with my parents, check it out, and meet peopl
- went to Toronto with my family b/c Nate’s ball team made nationals; saw my first MLB game, the CN tower, and Wonderland!
- mom started work at Oaksmith Interiors with a family friend
- we called Brandon Shurr to be our pastor
- started Briercrest.
- got the gov. general award
- got to be in college singers – definitely a high light of this year
- learning about how I need to embrace questioning, wrestle with my faith, strengthen my foundation, and trust in God no matter how I feel
- started becoming close friends with Aneca and Nicole, and pretty good friends with Megan, Lauren, Tegan, Kathryn, Melissa - finally some social consistency
- Met my admissions advisor for coffee which ended up in going with him and a couple others to SCS for a chapel
- car problems. twice.
- went on a silent retreat for spiritual formation
- bcrest had a day of prayer
- got an A+ on my first college paper
- Christmas musical!
- had a really great Dec. with the girls on my hall I’m getting closer to, along with some of the Whit 3 boys.
- home for Christmas! went to a bunch of parties with my friends, and enjoyed the Christmas season
- had a new year’s eve party at home and welcomed the new year with fireworks that could give July 1 a run for their money


Oh man, I just love going over my life every year and seeing how God is constantly working in me and through me, and realizing more and more his faithfulness. I still don't really like making 'resolutions' but I do have dreams and goals. I want to go back to Briercrest open and willing and in complete surrender. Ready to embrace whatever comes my way, ready to live to the fullest and continue getting closer with the friends I've been meeting, and ready to just go with God, be joyful, and live for him. I am excited about having another term of Briercrest now that I am settled in and know what to expect. I am excited about 4 whole months of summer. I am excited about moving back home and going to the U of S next year, and I am excited about life in general.

Welcome, 2009.