Ten highlights

1. Going to France
          Technically this overlaps with last year, but I finished my trip to France after the year started. Living in France was an incredible experience. I learned how to meet people while abroad but also that traveling by myself is also a lot of fun. I ate the best bread in the world every day and then could have crepes whenever I felt like it. Visiting the main monuments of Paris, as well as the lesser known ones and learning how they formed an active part of French history was so much fun.

2. Realizing that studying meant better grades
          This semester I studied my butt off. Cutting back on activities was a hard decision, but getting my highest gpa for college was worth it. Also, I'm immensely glad that junior year is over-- what a relief!

3. Successfully putting on a film series
           For my one activity that I didn't give up, I put on a film series. It was a draining, stressful experience in which I learned to never try to show a movie through a laptop, to arrive at least an hour early for set up, and how to burn my own dvds. The learning curve was sharp, but by the end, we knew what we were doing and had a regular group of people coming to our event.

4. My Brother's Graduation
          Even though I logically knew that my brother would graduate high school, I couldn't really believe it was happening. The ceremony itself was gorgeous and he looked very handsome and professional. (A bit weird..) But the best part was having dinner with all of my family. I think 34 people showed up for his graduation and then went to dinner. Where everyone was drunk and crazy X D

5. Doing the Pubcrawl in Ireland
          My first time going to a pub/bar was in Ireland and I also happened to discover how amazing cider is. All the people we met there were so nice. I think I fell in love with the bartender at one of the pubs and kept trying to drunkenly flirt with him.

6. Starting to date again
          I kind of withdrew myself from the dating game after freshmen year and it was a lot of fun to get back involved in it. Disasterous on many levels, but a lot of fun. Also, it got my mom off my back for a while.

7. Going skiing with my best friends.
          Three of my best friends and I went skiing in December/January and even though all of them were really afraid of the mountain, they gave it their all and skied hard. And then after skiing, we partied hard.

8. Teaching myself how to cook
          I started cooking again and even though the result isn't always the best, most of the time my food tastes half way decent. I'm proud that I'm finally learning a usable life skill.

9. Visiting Europe with my family
         My family's kind of crazy, so we had some crazy times exploring Eastern Europe by car. From trying to speak Czech to getting lost in Austria, traveling with my family is always an adventure.

10. Meeting new people
          This year I  made great friends, both online and offline, who are really wonderful people. They all support me when I'm freaking out and put up with my insanity. <3

I was also planning to do the ten worst lows and then realized that would be incredibly depressing X D