nearing the end
tonight was the yearbook signing party at THS... very good times... it was hot as what in the caf, and almost losing my yearbook was not cool, but it was still good times... I am going to miss my best friends next year... if you see me crying at graduation, that will be why. I have known people like Nicole and Leigh forever, and I have become incredibly close with people like Laura, Fil, and Jacob in such a short time... it really stinks that we won't be close to eachother during college... from california to boston, scotland to trenton, and indiana to philly, we are being scattered all over the states, and all over the world. Watching the senior video made me remember the good times of the year, along with the bad. But I found that in these bad times were some of our greatest moments... the 9/11 memorial service, the beltway sniper, the war with Iraq... as much as I dislike the people in my school the majority of the time, we can certainly rise to the occasion when it is necessary...

reading the some of the comments in my yearbook, I realized that I'm not only going to miss my best friends, I'm also going to miss those people that I have class with... the honor's kids in my school are a tight knit group, especially in the math and science classes... we have had classes with the same people for 4 year, and in many cases 8... over the years we have all bonded in a special way... we know who to go to go get help with homework... we can recognizes people's handwriting in an instant... we know each other's quirks and pet peeves... haha, we even have a designated lunch table on lab days when our entire class copies the lab from one person's work...

It's this small group of people that I will miss the most. I will have to get used to not living 5 minutes away from them. I will have to get used to not hearing certain people's quips in class. I will miss the late night runs for coffee, the singing in the car, the swinging competitions in the park, the way we can communicate through our eyes, the hugs that only best friends can give, and the fact that they don't care how I look.

As much as I will miss my friends, I know that I still have so many friendships to form, so many experiances to live, and so many memories to make. The future holds more than I can ever imagine... and knowing that keeps driving me foward. While this part of my life is almost over, an eternity still lays before me...