My thoughts today consist of just wanting Summer to begin already.

3 weeks of school left. 3 weeks of brutality. 3 weeks of junior year.

I have much to look foward to though. This summer will be very hectic for me, knowing that this is my last summer in San Diego :( However, I do look forward to spending the entire summertime with the ones I love! Also making the final list of colleges I will be applying to in the fall.

The beginning of my summer, I will be performing in my ballet school's All School Performance featuring Paquita. After this, I am going to take the ACT and continue from last summer's Russian lessons. I love Russian . I have alot planned with my friends this summer, and much more planning to do. I will not be going anywhere special, perhaps a week at Disneyland and/or LA, but that is all. I am also doing my school's summer intensive and taking class with many famous dancers. And more. This summer will be very overwhelming for me...

Anyways I got to get some sleep! Big day tomorrow with morning workout, rehearsals and academic stuff later.

Introduction

Dear Reader who may or may not exist, 

I have to warn you that I am not the best writer. However, I do have a strange love for writing about my life, thoughts, concerns, etc. Though, these things may not be as exciting or interesting in the eyes of others, I do not intend to write for anyone in particular. Commonly, one might create a blog for their own self interest or simply to update what it is that is occurring in their daily lives. As for me, I  am doubtful as to why I  may have created this in the first place. Perhaps I am simply wasting my time or going though a phase in which I have no one else to share my information with. Yes, that might be so. Do I consider myself secluded? At times. But I strangely enjoy my time alone. 

I will begin with my name: Charisma. I am seventeen years old and a junior in high school. I have many goals I hope to pursue in the future. It is the 10th of May, 2012. I am nearly finished with the school year. And for a while now, I have become tense with school pressures and high expectations from my teachers, mother, and of course, myself. But I would like to say that though, I have not completely finished my Junior Year (the most painful year one can experience in high school), I have grown so much in my educational journey. Okay, that sounds cheesy. I have grown to appreciate my education even though often times I whine about the amount of work assigned. I have learned to love the subjects I, as child, have resented for many years. I have indeed found that I am capable of achieving my goals through hard work and perseverance. Getting to know people this year was definitely something I can truly embrace about myself. I have learned to be more open-minded about people and found many similarities between us. Overall, I have changed my perception of furthering my education and am glad of it. I am excited, but nervous, for college and am striving for the college of my dreams. 

As of now, I have a few colleges in mind, that I will strongly consider applying to. I will name them until I have already applied, but I know that I have one college that I am dreaming to be accepted to. This 'dream college' of mine, has been for about 2 years and I am keeping my eyes on the prize. I aspire so much to attend this college and hope that it is a school that I always imagined it would be. 

Time is flying. I cannot simply comprehend that in just a year I will be a few weeks from graduating and will know exactly what I will be doing and where I will be going. I am a little scared. Hopefully, the work will pay off. 

C.G.