Joan's Blog

CTY!!!

joanl1 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:38:32 +0000

Tennis camp ended yesterday and tomorrow I leave for CTY. Yay! I just can’t wait to go there and do what i want for three weeks. All the friends I haven’t made yet are waiting there and I am SOOOO EXCITED!!!!!

Tuesdays With Morrie

joanl1 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:43:18 +0000

I’ve never really thought much about death. I’ve never feared it, but of course, I never welcomed it either. After reading Tuesdays with Morrie, my view on death changed. I used to see it as an invisible force that was used by God to take people out of the world. Now I see death as a part of the cycle of nature and life.

Like Morrie, I have sort of detached myself from any pain that I encounter, and I have learned not to brood over death. What’s the point of worrying about whether or not you will die tomorrow? I would very much rather live a short, purely happy life where I don’t give death a second thought than an eternity where I would always fear that I will die the next day.

Summer

joanl1 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:51:27 +0000

Less than half an hour until I leave Festa…forever. Leaving middle school is both a relief and a heartache. I can leave behind all the mistakes I’ve made in this school and have a fresh start in high school. But I’m sad to be leaving all my friends who are going to South this fall. I guess parting with old friends is a part of going someplace new and starting over.

I am pretty excited for what this summer will bring to me. CTY will be amazing, just like last year, and I can show myself as a leader who knows what CTY is like. I’m excited for the new friendships that I will make and the things I will to at Skidmore.