It's Been a While (and now it's ending)

So summer has gone and past - it's been a while. I started my senior year with a boom (or at least I hope I did anyways). I won't bother to sum up what the past few months have been like. It's been hectic and I even have a hard time processing everything. HOSA, Distinguished Young Woman, school, and college have absorbed my life.

Quick Summary:
I went to Nepal
Competed at State for DYW
Visited Chicago
Went to a HOSA Leadership Conference in Washington DC and Sacramento
And started senior year.

HOSA Washington
Leadership Academy

It's been hectic, I won't admit it - but it's been a journey. HOSA has been such an integral part of my life - I'm no longer an awkward freshman. I've become a leader, made new friends, and become a part of a leadership team that has changed my life for the better. I've always known what I wanted to do - at least I have an idea. For one it's going to be in the medical field - that's why HOSA is such a big help for me. But I LOVE global health - working with NGOs and traveling around the world would be such an amazing and fulfilling experience. I, for one, will be the first to say I want to be there when Doctors Without Borders finally reenters Somalia - the help that you can achieve there would be incredible. And that's the thing with HOSA - it's given be a chance to take a step closer to those goals. It's been prevalent throughout my entire life so far and I can't wait to continue on this journey.

Hospital in Nepal

I've gotten to travel across the country to meet my congresswoman and become an advocate, train in Sacramento - HOSA has given me so much and for that I'm grateful.

I've also went to Nepal to volunteer at a hospital there - I suppose that's where I lost touch with this blog. It was amazing and incredible and I'll write another post for it because I can't even describe how amazing it was.



I'll say the same thing about Distinguished Young Women. For those of you that don't know what it is, it's a scholarship competition for young women. The girls that I met at the state competition at Bakersfield have become my life longs friends.

DYW State Awards

Chicago was awesome. I got to drive up to Michigan to visit family, look at colleges, and fall in love with city other than the one I'm from.

In Chicago in front of
The Congress Hotel

I can ramble on and on about a ton of things but I'll end it here.
I'm going to be posting a lot more on this blog about stuff.
I know this post was just a complete mess, but I like to think that's just a reflection of my state of mind.

So whoever you are - thanks for checking my blog out and I hope that you and I can figure out how to survive senior year together.

July 4th

My sister and her friend swimming.

I had pictures from July 4th, but they got lost somewhere - seriously. I'll post them up later though, even if we didn't do very much. We missed the fireworks and spent the night at an Indian restaurant so any pictures I do post would be of food.

Nepal is getting ever closer and I'm really excited. I went to one of my friends birthday parties yesterday, and that went well too. We hung out, played charades, mafia, and ate a lot of food. I miss hanging out with them, I'll admit I've been a little distant recently - and as much as I value "solidarity", it's probably isn't good, huh? When I got back my sister and her friend were having a sleepover.

My dad also told us that were planning to go to Michigan right when I get back from Nepal, so that might happen. I mean, I'm excited and everything, and I'm super psyched about getting to see UChicago, but I'm gonna most likely miss the Mortal Instruments Premiere with my friends, so that's gonna suck. 

I leave for the DYW competition on the 19th, so that's kind of nerve racking as well. I'm not sure how I'm going to be able to handle the dance section - I can't dance AL ALL. I have no idea. how I'm going to handle it. But it's gonna happen, so I guess I better prep for it.

What else... I have a gazillion books I need to read. I still have to write that DYW essay. I just reorganized my room. I need to study that Nepal handbook. And I need to apply for those scholarships.

Working on my essay.

Oh! And the AP scores came out today - but I'm not checking on those, they'll just be depressing. But other than that, I'm really going to try and post up more pictures - fo'sho.
And if your an adult when you read this, I'm sorry for the crap grammar and choppy sentences. It's a blog though, so what can I say. Just enjoy it while I try to get my point across, yeah?

I'll make a few other posts later about my journals and room and schedules and stuff, but I'm gonna finish working on my essay that I stopped working on to post this.